Climate Heat Record: August 2026 was the hottest month ever recorded globally, hitting about 1.65°C above pre-industrial levels and pushing temperatures back above the 1.5°C Paris threshold. Extreme Weather Impacts: A confirmed EF-1 tornado struck Winnipeg’s River Heights during a major storm, damaging homes and trees and adding to ongoing power disruptions. Clean Energy Jobs Watch: NextStar’s Windsor battery plant is still short of its promised 2,500 direct jobs, with about 1,300 hired months after construction completion. Pollution & Accountability: A Quebec town’s 100-year “toxic relationship” with the Horne smelter is resurfacing as a provincial buffer-zone order forces demolitions and displaces hundreds over allowed emissions. Defence & Industry Shift: Canada is taking a bigger role in Europe’s rearmament push, with a major presence at Poland’s MSPO defence fair. Housing Costs & Infrastructure: Cambridge, Ont. faces a potential multi-million-dollar taxpayer hit if it joins a program to cut development charges, with limited impact on new home prices. Wildlife & Rule of Law: A UN report says “just transition” is increasingly being turned into law and urges environmental rule-of-law approaches that protect people and ecosystems. Forestry Regulation Fight: U.S. and Canadian forestry groups lobby the EU to weaken anti-deforestation traceability rules affecting North American timber and paper.