Have a Plan B in case three becomes a crowd

Carney plays well on the road

Bankers are detail-oriented, pragmatic types. They seek to maximize assets incrementally, without taking big swings or big risks.

Bankers who run central banks — controlling the monetary policy of nations and states — must also think strategically and geopolitically, taking care of the details of national monetary policy, protecting assets and minimizing risk while also positioning and protecting their nations in a global economy fraught with financial and political pitfalls.

Given that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has been head of both the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, it should be no surprise that, since he entered the political realm and became prime minister in 2025, he has governed like a careful national banker — the sort who raises or lowers interest rates a quarter-point at a time while carefully plotting a course through choppy geopolitical seas.

Domestically, Carney’s economic policies have focused on realizing the value of Canada’s assets in a post-COVID, inflationary global economy disrupted by the trade chaos of U.S. President Donald Trump, the U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran and Russia’s continuing war with Ukraine.

When we acknowledge the crimes of colonialism, we're learning history, not erasing it

The first mistake is thinking that history ends. Like a book, like a movie, like a story where one arc is wrapped up and a new one begins. It’s a mistake easily made by those who have enough personal distance from an event to know it only through a page, rather than through a face, a memory, a kinship or a name.

So if it is not your relative whose tiny body might lie in an unmarked grave, far from home, then it’s easy to think that what happened is over. It’s easy to say, as one commentator did earlier this week, that it’s “time to move on.” But you’d be wrong, because history doesn’t end, and those most directly affected by it do not forget.

And when news broke last month that 215 unmarked graves had been found near the former Kamloops Indian Residential School on the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation, the grief that flowed from the discovery was a sorrow not just for a new revelation about history, but for a pain some have always known.

All between the coasts, survivors and their allies planted gardens of empty shoes, arranged in rows.

‘Cautious optimism’ in Brandon as river crests

Water levels on the Assiniboine River, which have threatened Manitoba’s second-largest city over the past week, crested overnight, Brandon officials said Monday.

The river reached 1,179.46 feet, “indicating the river level has stabilized and reached its peak overnight,” according to an update posted on the city’s website.

The level stood at 1,179.23 feet on Sunday morning after rising 1.63 feet from Saturday. Officials had expected it to climb by as much as another foot before cresting. Overall, the river has risen about 7.5 feet over the past week.

Despite the crest, residents are still being urged to remain prepared as conditions could change.

Tories gear up for reopening even as ICU doc says ‘we’re almost drowning’

Manitoba will roll back public health restrictions under a phased reopening plan that could begin next month depending on trends in COVID-19 hospital admissions and the spread of the virus.

On Friday, Health Minister Audrey Gordon said the provincial government will bring forward new public health orders next week that will likely include an “outline to reopen the province,” after announcing current restrictions would be extended to Feb. 8.

“The public health orders were always meant to be temporary,” Gordon said during a press conference with chief provincial public health officer Dr. Brent Roussin and new health system incident commander Dr. David Matear.

“We’ve always been looking towards normalcy and getting Manitoba back to a state, it may be a new normal, but certainly a state where we can carry out our lives.”

COVID cases spike even as US hits 200M vaccine milestone

A collection of breaking news briefs filed on December 13, 2021

• Province seeks help from Ottawa to staff intensive care units

• Bombers hosting Grey Cup celebration at IG Field Wednesday

• Snowmobiler killed in crash with pedestrian in Pimicikamak Cree Nation

• Missing man last seen in Elmwood neighbourhood

• Small passenger plane crashes after engine failure

• Latest round of Teachers' Idea Fund projects announced

• Eight dead as COVID-19 climbs in Southern Health

• Extent of Wheeler's injury still unknown, Moose dealing with COVID-19 situation

• Teenage boy arrested after Charleswood stabbing

• Teen girl arrested in bus shelter stabbing

• Man with ties to Winnipeg wanted by Saskatoon police in sex assault investigation

• Woman slain on College Avenue

• Jets shuffle lines at practice without injured Wheeler

• Pionk returns to practice with Jets

• Province extends paid sick leave

'Code red': UN scientists warn of worsening global warming

BERLIN - Earth is getting so hot that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past a level of warming that world leaders have sought to prevent, according to a report released Monday that the United Nations called a “code red for humanity.”

“It’s just guaranteed that it’s going to get worse,” said report co-author Linda Mearns, a senior climate scientist at the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research. “Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.”

But scientists also eased back a bit on the likelihood of the absolute worst climate catastrophes.

The authoritative Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, which calls climate change clearly human-caused and “unequivocal” and “an established fact,” makes more precise and warmer forecasts for the 21st century than it did last time it was issued in 2013.