Good morning. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navanethem Pillay, a South Africa-born judge on the International Court of Justice, at an announcement in Oslo this morning. More on that below, along with Ottawa’s courtship of Angola and a Quebec village’s zeal for rodeo.
Navanethem Pillay won the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts to promote peace and international law.WIKUS DE WET/AFP/Getty Images
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Navanethem Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize
Former United Nations human rights chief Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a judge on the International Court of Justice, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in Oslo, Norway.
The South Africa-born Pillay, 85 years old, was recognized for her efforts to promote peace and international law, said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
Pillay’s work “is a source of hope and inspiration to all those who seek to bring about a more peaceful world,” Watne Frydnes said announcing her win.
Yesterday: The Canadian modernist poet Anne Carson, the new Nobel laureate in literature, was recognized for “her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
Recap: Science reporter Ivan Semeniuk profiled the Nobel recipients in the categories of medicine, physics and chemistry.
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Chief Kelsey Jacko of Cold Lake First Nations speaks at the Assembly of First Nations' annual general assembly this summer.Justin Tang/The Canadian Press
First Nation lodges challenge to Pacific pipeline
Cold Lake First Nations issued the first legal challenge to the federal government over Ottawa’s decision to designate the Pacific Link oil pipeline a priority in the national interest that is worthy of fast-tracking. The project would carry one million barrels a day from Bruderheim, Alta., to Roberts Bank, B.C.
The context: Cold Lake sits in the middle of oil sands development in Northern Alberta. Prime Minister Mark Carney has repeatedly tied approval of Pacific Link to the carbon capture project called Pathways, which would include a pipeline that would transport carbon trapped at oil-sands facilities to an underground hub near Cold Lake, Alta. Concerns about a lack of consultation are at the heart of the community’s application for judicial review.
The legalese: Pacific Link last week became the first major project to be identified as a national priority under the federal Building Canada Act, which provides an accelerated route through regulatory approvals.
Details emerge about resettlement of Nazi collaborators
The federal government has declassified portions of a 40-year-old report on the resettlement of Nazi war criminals that reveal details of how dozens of people, including those suspected of collaboration with the Third Reich, were helped to come to Canada through a secret CIA program.
The latest: According to the newly unredacted text, the RCMP reported to Ottawa in 1954 “that some forty persons had been presented for admission” the previous year by the U.S. Army’s resettlement branch in Europe. Another section says that U.S. intelligence personnel “could well have assisted persons with war criminal background to immigrate to Canada.”
Stephen Jarislowsky, shown in 2007, was the founder and chairman of Montreal-based fund management firm Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd.Lyle Stafford/Reuters
Paying tribute to Jarislowsky
Billionaire investor Stephen Jarislowsky, a champion of corporate governance and former spy who has died at 101, made his name as a pioneer advocate for shareholder rights, engaging in public battles with CEOs, family businesses and boards of directors. Late in his career, he became a philanthropist who supported the study of democracy.
Obituary: The investment guru crusaded for shareholder rights and was a sharp-tongued critic of underperforming executives.
Opinion: Jarislowsky was the Leonardo da Vinci of the Canadian business world, a true polymath, business historian Joe Martin writes.
The Take
I’m confident that after this referendum goes up in flames, separatist leaders in Alberta will insist they will live to fight another day. My suggestion: they form their own separatist party and put themselves up for election. Meantime, they should desist from undertaking any meetings with officials from the U.S. government in which Alberta’s future is discussed.
When Alberta’s Oct. 19 referendum history is written, its inevitable defeat will be placed at the feet of those who agitated for it in the first place, Gary Mason argues.
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Rodeo riders carry the Canadian and Quebec flags during a French rendition of the national anthem at the recent Festival Western de St-Tite.Adil Boukind/The Globe and Mail
Francophone cowboy culture is alive and kicking in Saint-Tite, Que., which stages Canada’s largest Western festival east of the Calgary Stampede.
The Wrap
What else we’re following
At home: The federal government is talking with First Nations about partnerships as it seeks new private investors for the country’s four largest airports, Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon confirmed.
Abroad: Canadian mining companies would stand to benefit from an economic agreement with Angola, a resource-rich African target of Ottawa’s global trade diversification effort.
Health: Doctors who receive gifts or payments from pharmaceutical companies end up prescribing more frequently, and choosing less suitable medications, a review of medical studies in the U.S. and Europe concluded.
Robotics: Startups are hiring low-paid gig workers to train AI-powered humanoids on manual labour.
Humanity: Video replay is a scourge on baseball because it eliminates the personal touch and the intervention of fate, Cathal Kelly opines.
Catch up: How is stigma around menopause symptoms affecting women and the economy? We answered reader questions.
What to watch: The hunt for a great Canadian Thanksgiving special turns up only turkeys – but there are always foreign shows and the CFL.