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recent tensions between Canada and the United States. It was a show of respect and unity at the Buffalo Bills home opener as the Canadian national anthem was played ahead of kickoff. The Bear Naked ladies took to center field at the new Highmark Stadium in New York with a massive Canadian flag and

performed O Canada. The true North strong and free. A spokesperson for the Bills said they were happy to celebrate the Bills' connection with fans across Canada.

There are around 10,000 Canadians who are Bills' regular season ticket holders. Singing the Canadian anthem isn't a new practice down in Buffalo. The Sabres hockey team has been playing both the Canadian and US anthems ahead of every game since the team was founded back in 1970.

A global airline industry group says it has some major concerns about Prime Minister Mark Carney's plan to open up operations of Canada's four largest airports to privatization. Nick Karine is VP of the International Air Transport Association, which represents 370 airlines around the world.

He says Carney's announcement at this week's Canada Investment Summit to turn Toronto Pearson as well as airports in Montreal, Vancouver and Calgary into for-profit companies would drive up costs for travellers. Careen cited Australia's privatisation of its airports in the late 1990s, saying the

move raised fees to airlines by $1.6 billion by 2016. However, some experts say privatization in Australia also brought increased efficiencies, more incentives to invest in infrastructure, and better cost controls. Canadian auto parts business mogul Frank Stronach will be sentenced on December 11th,

but won't face jail time. A superior court justice says they've not decided Stronach's fate on the historical charge of indecent assault related to an incident in 1977. Prosecutors were seeking a sentence of six months behind bars, saying there are several aggravating factors in the case, including that the indecent assault was sudden and disorienting

and had an enduring impact on the complainant. Stronach's defense lawyer argued the crown's position is excessive as she began making her own submissions on sentencing. He's also set to stand trial before a jury in Newmarket next year in a sexual assault case involving six complainants.

Also making big headlines, Canada has the potential to bolster Europe's energy security through the EU's new proposed alliance. But experts say it doesn't necessarily mean tankers crossing the Atlantic Ocean filled with oil or liquefied natural gas.

Rachel Duran is executive director at Clean Energy Canada. She sees a promising opportunity to supply critical minerals to Europe, helping it transition away from fossil fuels towards clean power. At this moment where we're really nation building, we're thinking about standing up new ports,

standing up new supply chains, working in increasingly close ways with different trading partners. We really need to keep an eye on the prize, where those countries are going and the kinds of the materials they're going to want from us.

Durand says the EU is only looking to produce 10% of the critical minerals it needs, meaning it will rely heavily on imports. The Royal Canadian Air Force has welcomed the first two of its new trainer aircraft, the CT-157 Siskin II.

the same planes that'll replace the old Tudor jets flown by the Snowbird's aerial demonstration team. RCAF Commander Jamie Spicer-Blanche says this is an example of modernizing the Air and Space Force. It is of course one of the multiple fleets that form our future air crew training program,

which is modernizing the air crew training for all of the air crew trades that I'm responsible for. And Lange says because so many Canadian pilots will be training on this aircraft, the Air Force will have a much larger pool of potential candidates for the snowbirds.

If you haven't listened yet, today on The Big Story is Canada's future European. Host Karen Seolan is speaking with Dr. Kurt Hubner, professor in the European Studies Department at the University of British Columbia, about what it might mean to be an associate member of the European Union, why Canada and the EU are reaching for each other right now,

and what the future of Canada and Europe might be in the age of President Donald Trump. Do you think Miss von der Leyen was taking a risk by using the term associate member? Yeah, my risk, I would say, is going too far. But Ursula von der Leyen is famous. Also back in her time before she was the president of the Kössen, back in Germany, she loves

to have big words, big terms. And if you look at her tenure, there are so many initiatives which come in with big words and afterwards, not a lot has happened. There are all kinds of alliances when she likes to play around with those kinds of words. And I think so. It's a lot of symbolic policy from her from her side and other members in the commission, but also overall in Europe,

they know now in the meantime, this kind of behavior. And I would say they don't take it so seriously, because they know something like this is in the hands of the member states, of member governments, and they have control. You have to think about the European Commission is not even an agency that can make laws.

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