Good morning. On the eve of Parliament’s return, Ottawa met once more with our close friends in Europe. More on that below, along with climate change in the Okanagan Valley and AI in the military.

Canada and France will start sharing space-launch systems and satellite data reception facilities, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced after a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on Saint-Pierre and Miquelon yesterday.

The big picture: Carney and Macron chose to meet on the archipelago of nearly 6,000 French citizens located 25 kilometres off Newfoundland’s Burin Peninsula as a show of solidarity and confirmation of sovereignty in the face of U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggression.

Up next: The two leaders are both headed to New York this week for United Nations General Assembly sessions.

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Investigations into a series of shootings in Toronto have been stymied because a key cellphone that was seized in connection with the case is running on a privacy-focused operating system and investigators have so far been unable to unlock the device, according to a police source.

The details: The phone operates on a little-known and highly secure operating system called GrapheneOS, reputed to be one of the most difficult systems to penetrate, the source said. It’s available for users to download and install for free, based on the Android Open Source Project. It was created by Toronto programmer Daniel Micay.

The federal government plans to kick off Monday’s return of parliamentary sittings with the introduction of major legislation targeting project approvals and Canada’s labour laws. The Canadian Labour Congress has already expressed concern with some of the proposals, which they say would limit bargaining power and encourage federal intervention to end strikes and lockouts.

What else: Another government bill that could be introduced will enable the extension of the federal gas tax break. MPs and senators will also debate several bills still making their way through Parliament, most notably the lawful access bill, C-22.

Kerry-Lynne Findlay has resigned as leader of the Conservative Party of BC less than four months after taking the helm, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure beset by controversy, an exodus of MLAs and escalating internal opposition to her leadership.

The context: As of last night, 13 MLAs had departed since she became leader: 10 who quit, including Surrey-Serpentine River’s Linda Hepner, who left the party caucus earlier that day, and three whom Findlay removed. A 14th MLA, Reann Gasper, had given up her seat in Abbotsford-Mission to allow Findlay to run.