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Evening Brief Welcome back to the Evening Brief! Pumpjacks draw out oil and gas from wells near Calgary on Monday, Sept. 18, 2023. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press) Fresh data from Statistics Canada on Friday suggests the economy was growing at a healthy clip in the second quarter and rumblings of a recession earlier in the year might’ve been overblown. Real gross domestic product rose 3.3 per cent in the second quarter, a tick lower than economists’ expectations.

News The latest from the federal lobbyist registry. Sports equipment is held in the storage room next to the gym at an elementary school in Toronto on Tuesday, January 9, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Chris Young The fallout from the Canada-U.S. trade dispute is showing up on Parliament Hill, as businesses and industry groups turn their attention to trade policy and domestic investment.

News Trans Mountain Corp. says the pipeline that sends Alberta crude to the Vancouver area ran 94 per cent full during the second quarter. Crude oil tankers SFL Sabine, front left, and Tarbet Spirit are seen docked at the Trans Mountain Westridge Marine Terminal, where crude oil from the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline is loaded onto tankers, near a residential area in Burnaby, B.C., Monday, June 10, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck Trans Mountain Corp.

News Despite the influx of tourists and fans for the international soccer competition, accommodation services like hotels fell 0.7 per cent in June, Statistics Canada said. Canada fans march to B.C. Place stadium before Canada and Switzerland play a World Cup Group B soccer match, in Vancouver, on Wednesday, June 24, 2026.

News Authorities in Nepal and China reported Thursday that more than 390 people were killed and more than 1,400 were missing, including hundreds of foreigners and pilgrims. Hundreds of others have been displaced across the Himalayan region. Damage in seen in the aftermath of flash floods in Devighat in the Nuwakot district in Nepal, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2026.

News Real gross domestic product rose 3.3 per cent in the second quarter, a tick lower than economists’ expectations. That was still the fastest quarterly pace of growth since early 2023. Rolled coils of steel sit in the yard at the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant in Hamilton, Ont. on Thursday, August 20, 2026.

Welcome to Massey, population 1,000. It’s one of the many places in Ontario’s north the grid operator has picked for new utility-scale solar, part of a push to meet electricity demand that’s expected to surge in the coming decades. On the back roads northeast of the village, where Hydro One transmission lines cut across fields of bush and farmland, developer Potentia Renewables found landowners willing to lease about 800 acres for a massive solar project.

iPolitics Here’s what the activist media is reporting on this week.

Evening Brief Welcome back to the Evening Brief! Prime Minister Mark Carney and United States President Donald Trump speaks before the FIFA World Cup draw at the Kennedy Center, in Washington, Friday, Dec. 5, 2025.

News He told reporters on Thursday the Carney government was desperately seeking to create division with the Americans to justify walking away from the negotiating table. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick speaks before President Donald Trump, in foreground, signs a proclamation about the fishing industry, in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, June 11, 2026, in Washington.