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An American litigation funder is threatening to call in more than $100 million in alleged debt from Alberta separatist leader…

Ottawa dropped a cabinet power to exempt projects from the Species at Risk Act jeopardy test. It was one sub-item in a six-part overhaul that still stands.

More than 250 groups want Ottawa and Alberta to halt removal orders for 10 Calgary graduates. A June 2026 IRCC rule change explains why they were refused.

Mark Carney and Volodymyr Zelenskyy will hold a signing ceremony in Calgary at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, following a 9 a.m. meeting and ahead of a joint media availability, according to a Prime Minister’s Office advisory issued Wednesday evening. The advisory does not say what the two leaders will sign.

Canada’s first national environmental justice strategy is nearly three months past the deadline written into the law that created it. The Act behind it, Green MP Elizabeth May’s bill C-226, required the strategy by June 20, 2026; the earliest it can now reach Parliament is the sitting beginning Sept. 21.

Federal records show roughly 79,000 pay transactions more than a year old remain in the queue, and the pace of clearing them fell sharply after the target date.

Federal Court statistics show it disposed of 17,238 immigration proceedings in 2025, down from 22,151 in 2024, while new filings rose 15.4 per cent. Pending files nearly doubled to 23,099.

Ottawa’s one-time $150 Canada Disability Benefit supplement lands this month. It only reaches people already approved, and Alberta still claws back the rest.

Ottawa committed $405 million to the Mackenzie Valley Highway on Sept. 8, 2026. The money covers one bridge, one access road and completion of an environmental assessment running since 2013, not a highway. The Northwest Territories estimates roughly a decade of construction for the 321-kilometre Wrigley to Norman Wells leg alone.

The European Union and Canada are preparing a partnership spanning trade, defence, raw materials and space, Bloomberg reported Tuesday, with the plan expected to be unveiled in Strasbourg on Sept. 16.