Big Headlines: Carney meets European Commission boss in New York and Ottawa extends gas tax holiday into 2027

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know in just five minutes. This 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly continues today as Prime Minister Mark Carney will meet with the European Commission President this time to discuss the world's oceans.

The Ocean Eye International Alliance event will bring together leaders, civil society partners and UN organizations to build a network to observe and share data around ocean changes and challenges. emerging role as a key global champion of building alliances and defending

multilateralism has brought repeated scorn from U.S. President Donald Trump. Carney says one of the shared challenges of the moment though is a multilateral system that doesn't reflect the times and cannot respond to them. One of the shared challenges today is that we have a multilateral system that

if it fails to reflect the realities of the time won't stand the test of that time. But at the same time, the need for multilateral cooperation is very much alive. Carney and Trump did not meet at this session of the UN General Assembly in New York on Carney's first trip to the UN since trade negotiations fell apart last month with the Americans.

Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne says the federal government will extend the gas tax pause for several more months. Champagne says this measure will help Canadians grappling with the high cost of living. What I like about the measure, it's very direct, it's immediate, it's very simple,

applies across the country. And it's going to also help to reduce the pressure on the price of gas and the price of food that we've seen. Initially set to last only until Labor Day, the government is now extending the pause until the end of January before setting it at five cents per

liter until the end of March. It'll return to 10 cents in April 2027. The conservatives want it to be extended even longer and for the government to also lift the GST off gas purchases.

Several seniors have been arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill as they called for stronger government action to address climate change. Members of a self-described climate caravan protesting outside Parliament in Ottawa

tried to deliver hundreds of photos and stories about the effects of wildfires and flooding to MPs desks in the House of Commons. They were denied entry to the building and refused to clear the doors. Eric Schiller was one of the protesters. He's with the group, Senior's Climate Witness.

I mean, it's not easy for the politicians to stand up and say, okay, let's get off the fossil fuel chain. The activists are urging Ottawa to invest in renewable energy sources rather than fossil fuel infrastructure like pipelines, the protective service said 11 people have been arrested.

Voters in British Columbia will be going to the polls on October 24, two years ahead of schedule after provincial NDP leader David Ebe called a snap election. It comes as the provincial political scene undergoes some breakneck restructuring within the BC Conservative Party and amid Canada's trade war with the US.

E.B. called for an end of both President Donald Trump's trade war and Trump-style politics. When you smell smoke, you don't sit and wait to see what happens next. You act. You prepare.

You build a fire break. And that is exactly what we need to do now. opponents were quick to criticize the move, though, as political opportunism given the turmoil within B.C.'s opposition conservatives over the summer.

Over the weekend, E.B.'s biggest opponent, Carolyn Finlay, stepped down from leading the B.C. conservatives. Many splintered candidates quickly reunited after E.B.'s announcement under new interim B.C. conservative leader, Lauren Dirksen, who said the NDP leader is going to regret

calling the vote because it creates chance for change. A prestigious music prize has been awarded to a mysterious Quebec rock duo. The Polaris Music Prize was handed out last night in Toronto to Angène de Poitrine for their second album and a song.

The masked musicians claim to be extraterrestrials from another planet, dressed in polka dot outfits and are known for their microtonal sound. About 200 music industry experts selected the duo among 10 nominees to win the $30,000 prize for this year's Best Canadian Album and the $10,000 Polaris Song Prize.

If you haven't listened yet, today on The Big Story, a Canadian guide to the U.S. midterms. Host Karen Seolan speaks to Aaron Parnass, a U.S.-based independent journalist and commentator about what Canadians need to know about this upcoming midterm election, what Trump means when he tells Americans to vote like my name is on the ballot, and whether or not a new

Congress could finally put a check on the president. So can you give us a reality check then, because this moment feels almost equally high stakes for Canadians, because there are many on this side of the border who are maybe hoping Democrats will be able to undo some of the president's ongoing economic

like, a big, like, corrosion campaign against this country. If the Democrats are able to take over congressional majorities, give us a reality check. Are they coming to save us? No.

And this is the reality check that everyone needs to hear, even in America. If Democrats take the House and take the Senate, the best they can do is pass legislation that Trump will veto. They cannot do anything on their own, right?

It cannot happen. They cannot stop the trade war. They cannot end the tariffs. They cannot do any of that.

can try, but it will not work. So the only thing that people in Canada or anywhere across the world should kind of find Solace in is if you have a Democratic president in 2028, then all of this can change. But until then, the way that our country set up is Trump has