Good morning. Dealings between Alberta separatist leaders and U.S. Republican political operatives that The Globe uncovered on the weekend spurred plenty of reaction. More on that below, along with election day in Quebec and expert tips for Thanksgiving dinner.

Clarification: Last Thursday’s Morning Update was sent with a subject line that unclearly identified the pilots in the cockpit of the Israel-bound FlyDubai flight. The captain was attacked by his fellow pilot.

Revelations about talks in Washington where Alberta separatists offered up fresh water and oil in exchange for U.S. support, and in Calgary, where separatists met in secret with Republican strategists eager to see the province leave Canada, have sparked a political furor.

The reaction: Corey Hogan, Calgary’s only Liberal member of Parliament, said Canada needs to consider overhauling its laws to bar the kind of freelance negotiating trips that separatist leaders made to D.C. ahead of this month’s referendum. The discussions do not constitute treason, but that does not make them innocent, Hogan said.

The context: Republican operatives were on the ground in Alberta this year to provide tactical assistance to the separatist campaign, a Globe investigation found. Additionally, separatist leaders offered up key assets from Alberta’s resource portfolio in meetings with the U.S. State Department in exchange for help transitioning to independence.

Opinion: If you’re going to fight for an independent Alberta, you should, at least, fight for independence – not for vassalage to a neighbour, Tyler Dawson writes.

The U.S. Coast Guard on Sunday evening ended the rescue search for those onboard a missing Ontario-based air ambulance, making the difficult call that the four Canadian crew members and two Bermudian passengers were not going to be found alive.

The flight: The missing Gulfstream G100, owned by Hamilton-based Latitude Air Ambulance, left a Bermuda airport after midnight Saturday for what a company official has described as a routine patient transport to Boston. Latitude lost contact with the plane around 1:30 a.m.

The latest: The rescue mission now becomes a recovery operation to collect the debris floating 32 kilometres from Nantucket, Mass., and sweep the ocean floor for wreckage, trying to explain how a seemingly routine patient transport flight ended with a plane shattered in the sea.

Canadian diplomats who served in Cuba nearly a decade ago say their children continue to suffer unexplained health symptoms that have been linked in recent years to possible attacks by Russian intelligence using sonic weaponry. A group of 10 diplomats and their families are suing the federal government over allegations that it denied them leading-edge health care and played down the seriousness of what they’ve endured.

The background: Foreign-service officers and their families reported experiencing nosebleeds, impaired vision, nausea, fatigue, vertigo and cognitive dissonance. The symptoms, known as Havana Syndrome, occurred in the evenings after they heard a vibratory noise while at their homes in the Cuban capital.

More: Ottawa and Washington have failed to adequately investigate whether Russia used directed energy against the diplomats, former U.S. national-security adviser John Bolton told The Globe.

Election day has arrived in Quebec, where a crowded race could make it challenging for any party to win a majority of the 127 seats. Polling stations will be open today from 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. ET.

Explainer: Five major parties are in the running. Here’s what to know about their leaders, their platforms and the bases to which they appeal.