The new office, which is to recommend key new national infrastructure projects for streamlined federal approvals and help see them through, will be headquartered in Calgary, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced. The members of its Indigenous advisory council will be named in September, the announcement said. (The Logic)

Talking point: Farrell was the chief executive of the Crown corporation that completed the expansion of the pipeline carrying crude oil from Alberta to the B.C. coast before she took over as board chair last year. She was previously CEO of TransAlta and an executive at BC Hydro; the Bloc Québécois quickly denounced her as an “apostle of pipelines” who oversaw one that cost vastly more than expected. Carney said Friday the first set of nation-building projects will be announced “in the coming weeks,” but signalled in a speech earlier this week that port projects, particularly one enabling natural gas to be shipped to Europe from Churchill, Man., will be among them.