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November 1, 2026 — From My Inbox

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Canadian News

Ottawa’s Thursday budget and the U.S. midterms dominated the Canadian coverage in today’s inbox.

  • Toronto Star (First Up): Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne previewed the Nov. 5 federal budget, telling columnist Susan Delacourt he wants it to speak to Canadian identity, and described speaking with Prime Minister Mark Carney every other day. The newsletter also flagged Alvin Tedjo’s mayoral win in Mississauga, a Bank of Canada interest-rate increase discussed in Adam Radwanski’s column, and the National Ballet of Canada’s 75th-anniversary retrospective.
  • New York Times (Global Update): Reported that Carney has committed Canada to becoming the European Union’s first “Associate Member,” part of a push to reduce reliance on the United States and expand trade elsewhere.

US News

Tuesday’s midterm elections were the throughline across several newsletters.

  • NYT (The Morning) and WSJ (The 10-Point): Both led with the midterms. The Morning covered a feud among Michigan Democrats ahead of the vote, while the 10-Point’s Greg Ip wrote that voters hoping for an affordability fix “are going to be disappointed,” and detailed a tightening South Carolina Senate race involving Darline Graham.
  • The New Yorker (Daily): Pointed to a Kansas Senate race turning on a megachurch pastor’s influence, and a Texas Democrat’s closing sprint for a Senate seat.
  • NYT (The Morning): A federal judge dismissed President Trump’s defamation suit against The Wall Street Journal over reporting linking him to Jeffrey Epstein.

Finance and Markets

AI financing and its risks were the dominant theme in the business newsletters.

  • WSJ (Daily Digest): OpenAI raised less than half of its targeted $30 billion in its latest funding round, while Wall Street investors are increasingly dictating terms in the AI buildout amid a shortage of cheap financing.
  • WSJ (The 10-Point): Described growing investor anxiety over the AI trade, with some tech employees hedging their own company stock via options and credit-default swaps. It also flagged a circular-financing arrangement in which Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom are investing $5 billion as cornerstone investors in Meta’s $25 billion stock sale, and noted Anthropic’s planned IPO will use a dual-class share structure to keep founders in control. Separately: Binance resumed customer withdrawals after the industry’s largest-ever crypto hack, and Meta’s new AI shopping agent, Muse, was described as a potential threat to Amazon’s advertising business.

International News

Israel’s election aftermath was the most-covered international story, appearing from two different angles.

  • Amit Segal (Substack, “It’s Noon in Israel”): Argued that dire warnings from Israel’s protest movement about the election’s integrity proved unfounded, crediting traditional and Mizrahi Likud voters in cities like Holon and Bat Yam for the result, and noting steep losses for smaller right-wing parties.
  • NYT (Global Update): Covered the aftermath of Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition-building struggle after the election, reported that Iran’s leadership expects no major policy shift regardless of the U.S. or Israeli election outcomes, and noted that a second major rail disaster this year has undermined Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez ahead of elections.
  • The New Yorker (Daily): Covered Brazilian President Lula da Silva’s standoff with the online right following his election win.
  • NYT (The Morning): Reported on Ukrainian civilians evacuated from the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky under a truce backed by the Pope and Melania Trump, and on high infection rates among wounded Ukrainian soldiers.

Sports News

The WNBA championship was the standout story, covered by both a sports and a general newsletter.

  • The Athletic (The Pulse) and NYT (The Morning): The Golden State Valkyries beat the Atlanta Dream in Game 7 to win the franchise’s first WNBA title, in just its second season.
  • The Athletic (The Pulse): Recapped a busy college football Saturday — top-ranked Miami survived a scare from North Carolina, No. 2 Ohio State lost to USC with a backup quarterback, and No. 4 Indiana escaped Minnesota in overtime after a late field-goal swap. Also: the NFL is reviewing new abuse allegations against Packers running back Josh Jacobs, Lewis Hamilton took pole for the Mexican Grand Prix, and Liverpool hosted Arsenal in a key Premier League match.

Health and Wellness

NYT (The Morning): Ahead of today’s New York City Marathon, examined the ongoing running boom — record demand for marathon lottery spots, the rise of run clubs, and how “super shoe” technology and heavier mid-race carbohydrate intake have helped elite runners break the two-hour marathon barrier.

Other

  • The New Yorker (Daily): Profiled mathematician Terence Tao’s role guiding the field of mathematics through the disruptive arrival of AI tools capable of solving long-standing problems, and featured new fiction by Téa Obreht.
  • WSJ (The 10-Point): Covered a dispute between two owners who both claim to own the famous “Hippie Car” Porsche that beat Ferrari at Le Mans in 1970, and profiled China’s laid-back city of Dali, nicknamed “Dalifornia.”

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