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That forum will be more widely watched nationwide, but the stakes were high on Wednesday for Carney's Liberals, which are leading in Quebec where the majority of French-speaking Canadians live.

Solar storms create beautiful displays when they generate auroras, but the stakes are more serious when they affect power grids or satellites.

We don’t have the luxury of complacency; we must keep organizing and innovating because, frankly, the stakes are too high.

“When stakes feel high everything goes sideways,” Reeves says.

There is a wide range of Chinese investment in the UK, ranging from critical energy and transport infrastructure, to stakes in private companies and football clubs.