WINNIPEG – The following is a glance at the news moving markets in Canada and globally.
– Liberal Member of Parliament Anthony Rota resigned as Speaker of Canada’s House of Commons on Tuesday after calls from opposition parties to step down. Rota invited 98-year-old former Ukrainian soldier Yaroslav Hunka to be in attendance during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s visit to the House of Commons on Sept. 22. It was later discovered Hunka served in the Waffen-SS Galicia Division with the Nazis in the Second World War. Poland’s education minister Przemysław Czarnek said he has taken preliminary steps to extradite Hunka. Long-time Bloc Quebecois MP Louis Plamondon will be the interim speaker until Rota’s replacement is chosen next week.
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– The federal government said on Tuesday it will review the C$8-billion sale of Canadian grain handling firm Viterra to multinational conglomerate Bunge. Viterra is currently owned by Glencore while two Canadian pension plans, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation, hold minority stakes. The Competition Bureau said in June it will also review the deal. The federal government added it has 250 days, until June 2024, to complete its review.
– A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts returned to Earth on Wednesday after a record-breaking 371-day stay on the International Space Station (ISS). Frank Rubio broke the record for the longest space flight by an American, accompanied by Russia’s Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin, before the three returned in a Soyuz capsule which landed in a remote area of Kazakhstan. The mission was supposed to last 180 days, but the vehicle which sent the men lost all its coolant while docked at the ISS, creating the need for a replacement Soyuz capsule.
