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November 13, 2026: From My Inbox

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The fifteen to twenty most frequent terms in today’s newsletters, sized by frequency.

Canadian News

The federal budget’s immigration targets drew scrutiny this week. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government has set a target of 380,000 new permanent residents a year through 2029, plus a time limited measure granting permanent residency to up to 200,000 temporary residents already in the country, none of which counts toward the official target. Added together, Canada could admit as many as 662,000 new permanent residents in 2027, above the Trudeau era record and above the one per cent of population ceiling the Liberal platform had promised.

  • Industry Minister Mélanie Joly gave Stellantis formal notice that its sale of the Brampton plant to Roshel breaks its funding deal with Ottawa; Carney rejected suggestions his government was involved in the sale (First Up, Toronto Star).
  • Ontario’s Ford government announced new rules holding colleges financially liable for OSAP misuse, without offering third party loans to students at schools still frozen out of funding (First Up, Toronto Star).
  • A Canadian court heard arguments this week that the Safe Third Country agreement with the United States violates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms (First Up, Toronto Star).
  • Toronto police spent almost 45 million dollars on overtime during the World Cup (First Up, Toronto Star).
  • Winnipeg’s Santa Claus Parade closes downtown roads Saturday starting at 11 a.m., with Main Street, Portage Avenue and Memorial Boulevard affected before the parade begins at 5 p.m. (Winnipeg Digest, ChrisD.ca).
  • Winnipeg police seized more than 150,000 dollars in prescription drugs and 120,000 dollars in cash in a North Point Douglas raid; a U.S. man was sentenced for helping smuggle a migrant into Canada through a Manitoba border crossing (ChrisD.ca).
  • A poll found most Manitobans support the province’s decision to end seasonal time changes (ChrisD.ca).

US News

Senator Chris Van Hollen of Maryland is challenging Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for the role of majority leader in the next Congress, the first such challenge in Schumer’s ten year run atop the Democratic caucus. The story ran across The Washington Post, Punchbowl News, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. Schumer points to this cycle’s gains, 55 seats and counting, and says he has the votes; Van Hollen says he has more than ten committed senators and has the backing of Senator elect Abdul El-Sayed and Senator Bernie Sanders. The outcome will shape how Democrats handle a government funding deadline of December 11 and the fight over Iran war funding.

  • President Trump pulled Vice President JD Vance off Iran peace negotiations to focus instead on investigating alleged fraud in Democratic run cities and states, saying the United States does not “need” a deal with Iran; oil prices rose on the news (The Washington Post, The Economist, The New Yorker).
  • After midterm gains in state legislatures, activists see a renewed opening to push the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact toward the 270 electoral votes needed to bypass the electoral college. Eighteen states and Washington, D.C. have joined; Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has voiced support, though most Democratic governors elect have stayed quiet (The Washington Post).
  • Trump has questioned the integrity of the midterm results on social media without evidence, after earlier saying he would accept them, and promoted Stephen Miller to White House chief of staff (Local News International, The New Yorker).
  • A gunman, a 55 year old emergency room doctor, shot five people, killing one, during a rampage in Washington’s Logan Circle neighborhood before dying of a self inflicted gunshot; he cited frustration with his condominium’s management (The Washington Post).
  • Homelessness in the United States fell six per cent from 2025 to January 2026, about 49,000 fewer people, the second consecutive annual decline; nearly half the drop came from New York City, Chicago, Boston and Denver, and analysts disagree on how much credit belongs to “Housing First” versus “Treatment First” approaches (AllSides).
  • Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth awarded a medal to the soldier who had admonished him for disruptive behavior at the Tomb of the Unknowns on Veterans Day (The Washington Post).

Finance and Markets

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang resigned Thursday following a board investigation and reports of three extramarital affairs, one with Alice Huang, a businesswoman U.S. officials have suspected of being a Chinese intelligence asset and of helping smuggle Nvidia chips into China through her Singapore based company, Megaspeed. The story led nearly every outlet in this digest, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Economist and The Daily Upside. Nvidia shares fell as much as 14 per cent before partly recovering; chief financial officer Colette Kress became interim chief executive. Rival chipmakers gained: AMD, led by Huang’s cousin Lisa Su, rose more than five per cent, and Broadcom also advanced, though analysts note Nvidia still holds roughly 80 to 90 per cent of the AI accelerator market. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick faces scrutiny over his ties to Huang and his oversight of chip export rules to China.

  • Argentina’s country risk index fell to 829 points and sovereign bonds rose even as local stocks absorbed the Nvidia news; October inflation came in at 2.2 per cent (El Cronista).
  • Richemont, the Swiss luxury group that owns Cartier and Van Cleef and Arpels, reported a 39 per cent rise in net profit to 2.5 billion euros for the six months ending in September, with total sales up 16 per cent (The Economist).
  • A Microsoft outage disrupted Outlook, Teams and Copilot for users worldwide; the company attributed it to unexpected server unavailability rather than a cyberattack (The Economist, The New York Times).

International News

Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s last major independent newspaper, closed its newsroom this week after its landlord declined to renew its lease and its bank stopped processing the reader donations that were its last source of revenue. Six of its journalists have been killed since the paper was founded with Mikhail Gorbachev’s Nobel Peace Prize money (The New York Times).

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin told American envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff that Russia will not compromise on controlling the Ukrainian territory it claims to have annexed and ruled out foreign peacekeeping troops there; the envoys also met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (The Economist).
  • The FBI accused North Korean state sponsored hackers of stealing 400 million dollars in cryptocurrency through fake video calls, in a scheme it calls FaceStealer, affecting more than 900 victims (The Economist).
  • Scientists attributed this year’s Indonesian forest fires, which sent toxic smog across Southeast Asia, to climate change combined with El Niño (The Economist).
  • In Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition options narrowed after Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Liberman’s cooperation with Haredi parties collapsed, leaving Netanyahu trying to head off a minority government or new elections (Amit Segal).
  • Pope Leo returned to Peru, where as a young priest he had organized pro democracy protests against Alberto Fujimori; the country is now led by Keiko Fujimori, the former president’s daughter (El Times, NYT en español).
  • The S.S. United States, once the fastest ocean liner built, completed its final voyage this week, deliberately sunk to become an artificial reef and dive site (El Times, NYT en español).

Media News

Jensen Huang’s resignation also drew commentary on the media and technology industries themselves. Platformer’s Casey Newton argued the deeper story is not the affairs but Silicon Valley’s “cult of the founder,” the belief, promoted by venture firms such as Founders Fund and Andreessen Horowitz, that founders should not face normal corporate governance.

  • At CNN, the contracts of anchor Brianna Keilar and correspondent Clarissa Ward remain undecided, as does that of network boss Mark Thompson, more than a month after Skydance completed its takeover. Kara Swisher ended her paid contributor role after Elon Musk, who has invested in Skydance, suggested online that she could end up in prison (Status with Oliver Darcy).
  • The Columbia Journalism Review’s “Laurels and Darts” column praised a photograph by student journalist Noah Williford of The Appalachian, Appalachian State University’s independent paper, taken on midterm election night, and criticized Free Press writer Olivia Reingold for posting an AI generated image implying hypocrisy at a Michigan Democratic Party event without initially disclosing that the image was AI altered (CJR).

Sports News

The Washington Commanders beat the New York Giants 24-21 in Thursday night football, keeping faint playoff hopes alive despite two fourth quarter interceptions from quarterback Jayden Daniels. Cubs outfielder Pete Crow-Armstrong and Astros designated hitter Yordan Alvarez won the National League and American League Most Valuable Player awards unanimously; Alvarez became the first full time designated hitter to win the American League honor (The Athletic).

  • Mauricio Pochettino is set to sign a contract through the 2028-29 season to become Manchester United’s manager, while continuing as United States men’s national team coach for upcoming Nations League matches before his departure (The Athletic).
  • The Athletic reported rising concern over English football academies recruiting players as young as 14, with one academy figure describing the practice as bordering on disguised trafficking; more than fifty players have switched clubs at that age over the past two seasons (The Athletic).
  • The Winnipeg Jets beat the New Jersey Devils 4-2. Dawson Mercer, acquired in the Connor Hellebuyck trade, scored twice including the game winner, and goaltender Nico Daws recorded his first win as a Jet (Winnipeg Digest).

Health and Wellness

A Pan American Health Organization commission meeting this week is expected to decide whether the United States retains its measles elimination status, held since 2000, after more than 7,000 cases since January 2025. A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention alert on measles in pregnancy was not approved for release, and the agency missed a presidential deadline for new childhood vaccine plans (Unbiased Science).

  • A clinical trial found that strength training reduced lean tissue loss by about 25 per cent in adults taking the weight loss drug tirzepatide, while participants who did not train lost strength over the same period (Arnold Schwarzenegger’s newsletter).
  • Separate research found that cooling the bedroom during the first part of the night increased deep sleep and improved heart rate variability, in a study funded by the mattress company Eight Sleep (Arnold Schwarzenegger’s newsletter).
  • A study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that people who laugh at their own minor mistakes are perceived as warmer and more authentic than those who appear embarrassed; other items addressed common nutrient deficiencies and a newly broadened recommendation for prostate cancer screening, reversing past guidance (The New York Times, Well).

Other

  • Johnny Depp stars in “Ebenezer,” a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol,” released in theaters Friday as part of an effort to restore his public image after his legal battles with ex-wife Amber Heard (The Wall Street Journal, CMO Today).
  • The New Yorker examined how private capital and artificial intelligence companies are increasingly financing American public school curricula (The New Yorker).

Sources

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