Overview
- Harvest Manitoba reports a 150% five‑year jump in food bank use to about 60,000 people per month, with more families, employed clients and post‑secondary graduates, and urges higher social assistance, more affordable housing, free low‑income transit and accessible child care.
- Statistics Canada says Manitoba’s October consumer price index rose 3% year over year, the second‑highest increase among provinces after Quebec.
- Organizers say Elections Alberta has approved a recall petition for Premier Danielle Smith, with a letter signed by Chief Electoral Officer Gordon McClure, and the Brooks–Medicine Hat effort requires more than 12,000 signatures to force a byelection.
- Recall petitions have also been approved for 14 other United Conservative MLAs, organizers report threats to volunteers, the UCP calls the process a political misuse, and Justice Minister Mickey Amery says the government will not change the Recall Act this session.
- Former federal minister Steven Guilbeault resigned and publicly accused his party of retreating on climate commitments and misleading the Greens, while companies such as Stellantis disputed ministers’ statements about support tied to a pipeline memorandum of understanding.