Good morning. Canadian security experts are calling for an independent inquiry into Havana Syndrome illnesses at Ottawa’s embassy in Cuba. More on that below, along with updates on the strikes in Kyiv and mass shooting events in South Africa.

Parliamentarians need to independently investigate whether Russia used sonic weaponry against Canadian diplomats in Cuba, where they were allegedly helping U.S. intelligence agencies, and how the diplomats were subsequently treated by Ottawa, former Canadian spies and high-level security officials say.

The context: The Globe and Mail reported Saturday that, according to two sources, a Canadian diplomat was sharing intelligence with American spies in Cuba around the time of the alleged sonic attacks. Canadians were also using satellite equipment brought into Cuba under diplomatic cover by the U.S. between 2016 and 2018, one of the sources said.

The illness: During that period, officials from both countries experienced dizziness, headaches, blurred vision and memory loss – symptoms that became known as related to Havana Syndrome. Ten Canadian diplomats and their families filed a lawsuit in 2019, alleging that they were denied leading-edge health care, and that the government played down the seriousness of brain injuries.

The latest: However, the details of that lawsuit will stay under wraps. The Canadian Department of Justice confirmed that it invoked Section 38 of the Canada Evidence Act in the case, a rarely used law that restricts disclosure of matters that could harm national security, national defence or international relations.

In an address that echoed Prime Minister Mark Carney’s January speech at the World Economic Forum, Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand told the United Nations this weekend that Canada is diversifying its ties under a policy of “values-based realism” because Ottawa “can no longer afford to be overly reliant on any one partner.”

What else: U.S. President Donald Trump said he didn’t expect a peace agreement with Iran until after the midterm elections, scheduled for Nov. 3. In his speech at the UN last week, the President disavowed any connection between the two, but his handling of the war suggests otherwise, writes David Shribman.

More than 20 years after she was convicted in the death of her baby boy, and more than a decade after the science of “shaken baby syndrome” was called into question, Jennifer Gaskin is hoping to clear her name. The appeal is the latest in a decades-long effort to undo the damage caused by the now widely contested forensic theory of SBS.

Up next: In advance of the Sept. 29 hearing, Gaskin’s lawyers and the Crown have come together, jointly submitting to the court that her conviction be quashed. “For 27 years, my other two children have thought I killed their brother Joeseph,” she said in a statement to The Globe and Mail. “If my appeal goes well, I pray they will realize I did not kill their brother, and accept me as their loving mother.”

A new platform launched by CIX Trading Inc. has brought extended trading hours to Canada, allowing investors to buy and sell domestic stocks earlier in the morning and well into the evening. The launch marks a years-long process of regulatory scrutiny, fundraising and technical trials.

The change: Beginning today, CIX will allow trading from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. before moving to a 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. schedule later this year. Eventually, CIX plans to offer trading 23 hours per day, Monday through Friday.