Joseph Steinberg says Canada faces a durable shift in U.S. trade policy, while geography and integrated supply chains sharply limit Ottawa’s ability to replace the American market. [Read more]
Donald Trump says the United States does not need anything Canada produces. Energy data tell a very different story. Decades of cross-border investment have created an integrated North American energy system in which Canadian electricity, [Read more]
Aurel Braun says the Iran conflict has become a test of endurance as Tehran uses asymmetric weapons to offset economic and military pressure from the United States. [Read more]
Canada oil boom widens Prairie economic gap: Bank of Canada [Read more]
Cold weather can increase electric-bus energy demand by roughly 30 per cent, making grid capacity and charging strategy central to Canadian transit electrification. [Read more]
Chinese EV exports are surging into markets around the world. As those vehicles accumulate in national fleets, the effect on gasoline demand could become increasingly visible. [Read more]
New fiber-optic sensing and AI tools can help utilities get more capacity and better reliability from transmission assets already in service. [Read more]
Anders Hove says storage, flexibility, distributed solar, and electrification now define the next phase of China’s power transition China’s new five-year energy plan signals a shift from building renewable capacity toward integrating wind, solar, storage, [Read more]
The study also found that relatively small, inexpensive interventions can have significant effects Canada’s clean energy transition is creating thousands of new jobs, but structural barriers are preventing many qualified workers from entering the sector, [Read more]
BC’s recent strategy was a big step backward, more about protecting the status quo than preparing for the Age of Electricity BC Hydro’s decision to purchase the Island Generation natural gas power plant in Campbell [Read more]
Forever Canadian founder says the unity campaign is expanding across Alberta and attracting interest elsewhere in the country Alberta separatism is provoking a growing Canadian unity movement, according to Forever Canadian founder Thomas Lukaszuk, who [Read more]
Jeffrey Dvorkin says Robertson’s calm authority, editorial engagement and commitment to public-service journalism made him one of Canada’s great broadcasters Lloyd Robertson, the veteran broadcaster who became one of the most familiar and trusted faces [Read more]
Canada’s planned expansion of small modular reactors could create a new dependence on foreign nuclear fuel and technology, according to York University professor Mark Winfield. The reactor designs being pursued in Ontario and considered elsewhere [Read more]
CEO Tim Schnabel says his company’s first product could replace 25% of a farmer’s conventional nitrogen fertilizer Switch Bioworks has begun field-testing engineered microbes designed to produce ammonia directly on corn roots, a technology the [Read more]
The goal is to create a society that is deeply conservative, Christian nationalist, authoritarian libertarian, and unlike the rest of Canada The activists leading Alberta’s separatist movement are drawing on the organizations, tactics and worldview [Read more]
Artificial intelligence is accelerating a major change in the relationship between Silicon Valley and the Pentagon as venture-backed technology companies gain a larger role in building the systems that may shape future warfare. Journalist Bernice [Read more]
National Observer columnist says politicians, media are reinforcing victimhood while failing to test economic assumptions behind pipelines, LNG and long-term oil growth Alberta’s political grievances are less a product of mistreatment by Ottawa than a [Read more]
Future Asian demand, high oil-sands costs and growing taxpayer exposure require much closer scrutiny Eric Chi, professor of economics at the University of Guelph, says Canada’s proposed West Coast oil pipeline requires far more economic [Read more]
Canadian industrial policy should “de-risk” new, innovative technologies, not give handouts to corporate welfare bums CALGARY — The new agreement between Ottawa, Alberta and Canada’s largest oil sands producers is drawing sharply different reactions, with [Read more]
Canada’s biggest problem isn’t that Donald Trump refused to renew CUSMA—it’s that he transformed North American trade into a permanent source of political leverage. By replacing long-term certainty with recurring uncertainty, Washington has exposed Canada’s deep economic dependence on the U.S. and forced Ottawa to confront a difficult question: how do you build resilience when your largest trading partner prefers unpredictability? [Read more]
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