5 things you need to know this morning: Sept. 10, 2025

Start your day off right with five things you need to know this morning.

Five things you need to know

1. No oil pipelines on Carney's list of infrastructure projects: report

Mark Carney is set to announce his government's list of favoured national infrastructure projects soon – but it won't include an oil pipeline, according to Radio-Canada. The national broadcaster said it had spoken to three sources about the list, with one of them explaining that there is no pipeline "on the table" at the moment, though that doesn't mean there won't be one in the future.

"Our colleagues at Radio-Canada have learned that there are no oil pipelines included on that list for now."

"Didn't make the short list. Can you explain the thinking behind that?"

"Smith, of course, is a huge proponent of pipeline."

"She's been asking the Liberals to get rid… pic.twitter.com/uNqiWr10Zv

— cbcwatcher (@cbcwatcher) September 10, 2025

2. Former BoC governor says Canada and US 'sliding' toward recession

Canada and the US are heading toward a recession, according to former Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz. He told CTV that the two economies are not now in a recession, but are "sliding in that direction."

Canada and U.S. ‘sliding in the direction’ of a recession: Poloz https://t.co/nI0tT0tavR

— CTV News (@CTVNews) September 10, 2025

3. Eby calls out fast food outlets for hiring foreign workers, but industry says BC doesn't have 'labour supply to meet demand'

BC Premier David Eby has doubled down on his critique of Ottawa's Temporary Foreign Worker Program, calling out Starbucks and Boston Pizza outlets for using the system to recruit staff, adding: "We need an immigration system that ensures that predatory employers are not able to use the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to depress wages or to deny opportunities to other workers." Restaurants Canada, meanwhile, has said Eby is "missing the reality of the foodservice industry" in BC. CEO Kelly Higginson added: "These are skilled workers that require specific training and we don’t have the domestic labour supply to meet demand."

Premier David Eby’s comments on the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program are missing the reality of the foodservice industry in British Columbia.

BC’s foodservice industry generates more than $20 billion in economic activity, representing nearly 5% of the province’s GDP. It… pic.twitter.com/HZvLVqRKpd

— Restaurants Canada (@RestaurantsCA) September 10, 2025

4. OpenAI expected to say it does no business in Canada and so shouldn't be sued in Ontario by news outlets

OpenAI – which is being sued by a group of Canadian news outlets over its use of copyrighted material – is reportedly set to argue that legal questions about its operations should be heard in a US court rather than in Ontario because the company "doesn't do business in the province." The CBC, Canadian Press, Globe and Mail and other outlets have said OpenAI is breaking the law by using news content to train the popular ChatGPT chatbot.

OpenAI is set to argue in an Ontario court today that a copyright lawsuit filed by Canadian news publishers involving its ChatGPT generative AI system should be heard in a U.S. courtroom instead. https://t.co/MaaOmUXV1s

— CityNews Calgary (@citynewscalgary) September 10, 2025

5. Montreal to commemorate Haiti's victory over France, but no mention of genocide that followed

The mayor of Montreal has announced the names of five new stations on the city's subway system, including one, Vertières, that commemorates a battle won by Haitians against French forces that led to the Caribbean nation's independence. There was no mention, however, of the fact that the battle led to a race-based massacre of Europeans in 1804 that UBCO scholar Adam Jones, among others, has labelled a genocide.

New Montreal metro stations named after Haiti’s independence battlehttps://t.co/FxjknryGIf

— Global Montreal (@Global_Montreal) September 9, 2025

Thumbnail photo credit: Government of BC