Canada

A PAHO commission has concluded the US lost its measles elimination status, researchers told KFF Health News, and Utah's own sequencing shows one lineage spread there for more than a year. Here is what that ruling changes for families, and what Canada's year since its own loss says about the way back.

Ottawa will put up to C$1.6 billion into Cohere's C$7 billion target round. Here is the per-person cost, a bounded ownership estimate, and the terms no one has published.

Polls open at 9 a.m. in Edmonton on Monday, Oct. 19, and no result exists yet. The separation question asks only whether to start a legal process, and it is the four constitutional questions on the same ballot that bind the government by statute.

A 10.41-point duty cut saves Canadian mills $104.10 on every $1,000 of lumber going forward, but the 10% Section 232 tariff stays put and most 2024 entries owe more. For a U.S. house, the saving tops out at about $538.

Last winter was H3N2; this autumn nearly every subtyped flu A virus in the U.S. and Canada is H1N1, a close relative of this year's vaccine strain. Here is what the numbers, the lab tests and the waning evidence say about timing your shot.

Quebec's Parti Québécois won 59 of 127 seats with 28.02% of the vote, a record-low share for a governing party, yet 2022 was the more distorted election. The riding arithmetic shows how close the PQ came to a majority and what the seat count does and does not say about reform and independence.

The Nobel citation praises play and new forms; the sales record says the prize has more to move for Carson than for Han Kang, the 2024 winner. The arithmetic, side by side.

The harvest explanation is about half right. Canada's Thanksgiving moved around for decades before a collision with Remembrance Day and a 1957 proclamation pinned it to October.

When trade wars escalate, the retaliation list is never random — it's aimed at specific industries and the politicians who represent them.