Cold dark matter haloes are expected to be triaxial, and so appear elliptical
in projection. We use weak gravitational lensing from the Canada-France Imaging
Survey (CFIS) component of the Ultraviolet-Near Infrared Optical Northern
Survey (UNIONS) to measure the ellipticity of the dark matter haloes around
Luminous Red Galaxies (LRGs) from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7
(DR7) and from the CMASS and LOWZ samples of the Baryon Oscillation
Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), assuming their major axes are aligned with the
stellar light. We find that DR7 LRGs with masses M∼2.5×1013M⊙/h have halo ellipticities e=0.35±0.09. Expressed as a
fraction of the galaxy ellipticity, we find fh=1.4±0.4. For BOSS LRGs,
the detection is of marginal significance: e=0.17±0.10 and
fh=0.1±0.4. These results are in agreement with other measurements of halo
ellipticity from weak lensing and, taken together with previous results,
suggest an increase of halo ellipticity of 0.10±0.05 per decade in halo
mass. This trend agrees with the predictions from hydrodynamical simulations,
which find that at higher halo masses, not only do dark matter haloes become
more elliptical, but that the misalignment between major axis of the stellar
light in the central galaxy and that of the dark matter decreases