- A major selloff rocked North America's stock markets on Friday, driven mostly by declines in tech stocks. This follows significant declines in similar stocks in China; it seems investors are beginning to second-guess whether the massive amounts of money spent on AI technology is going to pay off.
- Haley Stevens, a Democratic member of Congress from Michigan, tried to make the leap to the Senate this year, but lost the primary to Abdul El-Sayed in August. She has responded by endorsing El-Sayed's Republican opponent, much to the chagrin of party officials.
- Some users of Google's AI mode found that they couldn't get a straight answer when asking who won the 2020 US presidential election. Google attributes this to a "technical gap" which they are working on fixing.
- Steinbach has elected its first person of colour to its city council. Greg Carlos emigrated to Canada with his family as a teenager and says the small southern Manitoba city has welcomed him, notwithstanding a racist banner that was hung on a nearby highway overpass during the campaign.
- A Manitoba Housing highrise in Winnipeg's North End was evacuated over the weekend following a fire, the third at the building in eight months. Most residents have been allowed back, though one floor remains evacuated. Disconcertingly, some residents are blaming the province's Your Way Home program, which provides housing for homeless people. There may be something to this; earlier this year the Winnipeg Regional health Authority suspended home care services in that building for a time due to fears for the safety of their staff. Although there have been security upgrades made at the building since, one resident suggested that people with a "drug related" past shouldn't be housed there; the problem with that attitude is that they still have to be housed somewhere, unless one thinks they should just be left to die.
- After a 30 year old woman died of cancer while owing $38,000 in student debt, TD tried to get the money out of her grieving mother. The mother was a cosigner, but life insurance had been purchased at the time. TD claims that the policy was automatically cancelled when she graduated from university and the student line of credit converted into a personal loan, but it's not clear if she or her mother were actually notified of the cancellation. In any case, the bank backed down after the CBC started asking questions.
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