Verified brief — 6 October 2026

The Parti Québécois wins a minority and the CAQ is shut out, in Élections Québec’s preliminary count. Conservatives force a House vote on scrapping diesel taxes until Canada Day. A DHS watchdog finds 3.1 million ICE visa-overstay leads produced eight lead-driven arrests.

Published Oct 6, 2026, 8:40 a.m. EDT

Item 1
Québec (preliminary, all 20,704 polling stations): Parti Québécois 59 of 127 seats on 28.02% of the vote. Liberals 40, Conservatives 19, Québec solidaire 9, CAQ 0. That is a minority; 64 seats are needed for a majority.
Read the article →Élections Québec preliminary results
Item 2
Same count: turnout was 66.89%. CAQ leader Christine Fréchette lost Trois-Rivières to the PQ’s Jean Pellerin by 499 votes. Vachon was decided by 14 votes and Saint-Henri–Sainte-Anne by 39. Totals are preliminary until the official addition of the votes.
Read the article →Élections Québec results file
Item 3
The PQ’s 35,000-a-year permanent-admission pledge now belongs to a governing party, but it stays a campaign promise until a PQ government tables an immigration plan.
Read the article →PQ platform; Teabag election file
Item 4
House today (first allotted day): Carol Anstey’s Conservative motion calls for eliminating all taxes on diesel consumption until at least Canada Day and permanently eliminating taxes on diesel production. The vote comes no later than 5:30 p.m.
Read the article →Order Paper No. 146; Journals No. 145
Item 5
The motion is non-binding and names no specific tax. The federal diesel excise of 4¢/L is already suspended to 31 January 2027. Kalibrate’s 5 October national diesel average was 256.0¢/L, down 4.7¢ on the day.
Read the article →Kalibrate DPPS; Finance Canada
Item 6
DHS Inspector General (OIG-26-38): from fiscal 2021 to 2024, ICE received 3,145,375 visa-overstay leads. Of these, 21,885 were rated viable, 496 were investigated, and eight lead-driven arrests followed.
Read the article →DHS OIG-26-38
Item 7
Same audit: 1,769 Priority 1 national-security or public-safety leads produced two arrests. ICE made 446 HSI and 16,458 ERO overstay arrests by other means. ICE agreed to a corrective plan, due 30 September 2027.
Read the article →DHS OIG-26-38
Item 8
C-39 (5 October): second-reading debate continued on the previous question, and no vote was taken. Today is an opposition day, so C-39 is not called. It is still not law.
Read the article →Journals No. 145; Order Paper No. 146
Item 9
G7 oil release: the front-loaded diesel tranche is still within its 20-day window. Canada holds no public emergency stocks to contribute.
Read the article →G7 Leaders’ Statement; IEA
Item 10
H-1B: two plaintiffs (Church on the Hill and John Smith) voluntarily dismissed their claims on 5 October (Doc. 131). The 30 September vacatur of the agency policies stands, and the proclamation is not struck.
Read the article →N.D. Cal. Doc. 131
Item 11
Big Bend: the preliminary-injunction hearing transcript was filed on 5 October (Doc. 72). The 2 October injunction stands, and there is still no memorandum opinion.
Read the article →W.D. Tex. docket / CourtListener
Item 12
Kingdom BOP gender-dysphoria application 26A416: the government’s response is due 8 October at 4 p.m. EDT.
Read the article →SCOTUS docket 26A416
Item 13
Rhoney (26-104) is still a cert grant on interior mandatory detention, not a merits holding.
Read the article →Order List 1 Oct
Item 14
UK Online Safety Act: no Category 1 judgment yet. The High Court JR is still listed for 13–14 October.
Read the article →Teabag OSA file
Item 15
Alberta’s 19 October referendum is 13 days out.
Read the article →Elections Alberta