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Canadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc speaks at a news conference in Ottawa on September 7. Justin Tang/The Canadian Press/AP/FILECanadian Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc said his government is taking the vehicle explosion at the Rainbow Bridge border crossing “extremely seriously,” and is receiving regular updates from US authorities, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and border service agencies. “This is obviously a very serious situation,” the minister said, but would not speculate on the “origin” of the incident or fatalities due to its "evolving" nature. He and the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will receive further updates in the “coming moments," he said. Trudeau echoed the minister's sentiments and said the explosion at is “obviously a very serious situation” and additional measures are being "contemplated and activated."
Persons: Dominic LeBlanc, Justin Tang, Leblanc, Justin Trudeau, Trudeau Organizations: Canadian Public, Canadian Press, Public, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canadian Locations: Ottawa
China’s embassy in Ottawa says the expulsion was ’ based on rumors of the so-called China interference hyped up by some politicians and media.’ Photo: Justin Tang/The Canadian Press/Associated PressCanada on Monday expelled a Chinese diplomat after cabinet members learned that he allegedly ordered authorities in Hong Kong to monitor and possibly intimidate the relatives of a Conservative lawmaker critical of Beijing’s treatment of the Uyghur Muslim minority. Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly said that Zhao Wei of China’s consulate-general’s office in Toronto was declared “persona non grata.” A Canadian official said Mr. Zhao now has five days to leave the country.
Shopify spent about $2.5 billion to buy Deliverr and 6 River Systems. Photo: Justin Tang/Associated PressFlexport is buying Shopify ’s logistics-fulfillment operations, including U.S. e-commerce platform Deliverr, setting up the freight company to add home-delivery services that would compete with Amazon.com for retailer business. Shopify is also selling its 6 River Systems warehouse robotics operation to U.K. automated grocery-fulfillment specialist Ocado Group .
Tech giants Alibaba and Tencent closed down more than 11% in Asia; search company Baidu was 12% lower while food delivery firm Meituan tanked more than 14%. That makes it unlikely that anyone would challenge any "policy mistakes" that Xi makes which could hamper growth of the tech sector, Xin Sun, senior lecturer in Chinese and East Asian business, at King's College London said. Under Xi's leadership, China has implemented a raft of policy that has tightened regulation on the tech sector in areas from data protection to governing the way in which algorithms can be used. "Tech stocks have never been the best friend of Xi and it's clear that the market thinks that purge will continue," Justin Tang, head of Asian research at United First Partners, told CNBC. As part of the leadership reshuffle in China, Li Qiang, party secretary of Shanghai is expected to be made premier next year.
Reactions: Putin mobilises more troops for Ukraine
  + stars: | 2022-09-21 | by ( ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +20 min
Russian President Vladimir Putin makes an address on the conflict with Ukraine, in Moscow, Russia, in this still image taken from video released September 21, 2022. I think even with this Russia stuff it’s hard to see the market really rally a lot more from here ahead of the FOMC. From a geopolitical standpoint, Putin is frustrated that the war isn’t going his way and he’s threatening the west. "If it gets really, really bad, I'd expect the dollar to rise." This announcement by Putin to intensify the escalation in Ukraine definitely doesn’t help.
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