Canada Lost 68,000 Jobs. The Youth Number Is the Warning.
Canada needs more ways into work: employer incentives, co-op placements, community service and overseas experience—with a plan for what comes next.
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The Nasty Canuck Editorial Desk publishes useful Canadian news, clear explanations and sharp commentary — without taking ourselves too seriously.
Cleveland-Cliffs Made a Deal With Canada. Enforce It.
Cleveland-Cliffs’s planned Stelco cuts test the jobs commitments Canada secured in the takeover. Ottawa has enforcement powers. Future industrial deals should also put recoverable money and assets behind the promises.
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Emera and Canadian Utilities Are Getting Bigger. What Do Ratepayers Get?
The proposed combination would create a $72-billion utility platform with a $32-billion capital plan. But much of that spending was already on the books, leaving the ratepayer case to be proven through financing, regulation and measurable outcomes.
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Quebec Voted for Change. Canada Still Needs a Team.
Canada defended French-language protection in U.S. trade talks. Quebec’s election now raises a harder question: would going it alone give its people more strength—or less?
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Canada Has the Uranium. The Next Test Is What It Builds With It.
Ontario is building the country’s first BWRX-300, Saskatchewan is planning for nuclear generation, and Ottawa wants uranium exports doubled by 2035. The next phase of Canada’s nuclear story is moving from resource strength to industrial execution.
Read moreNasty Canuck Weekly — October 4, 2026
The stories worth your time, useful context from the week, and what we’re watching next.
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Foreign Interference Needs One Canadian Standard
Reporting that U.S. political operatives worked with Alberta separatists raises a broader test for Canada. The rules should turn on conduct, transparency and coercion — not the flag involved or the Canadian faction that benefits.
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Crude Isn’t Diesel. Canada’s Fuel Security Depends on the Difference.
Canada has abundant oil, substantial refining capacity and ambitions to become an energy superpower. A worldwide diesel squeeze raises a basic question: what kind of strategic fuel buffer, if any, belongs in that ambition?
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Arctic Sovereignty Needs Roads, Ports, Power — and Plumbing
Canada’s northern projects promise stronger defence and better access for residents. Delivering both means testing the routes, costs, community consent and operating plans behind the announcements.
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Canada’s AI Ambition Needs a Working Stack
Canada has the research, useful industrial expertise and a promising infrastructure base. Turning those assets into stronger companies and better public services means connecting the whole AI stack, while being honest about what we control and what we still buy abroad.
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Canada Has Been in Space Since 1962. What Comes Next?
Joshua Kutryk’s Crew-13 mission is the latest chapter in a Canadian space program built around specialized capability and partnership. That worked from Alouette to Canadarm. The next era will test which capabilities Canada chooses to share — and which it decides to control.
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Canada Can’t Build Air Power Alone. The Hard Part Is Choosing What It Must Control.
Canada cannot build every military capability itself. The harder question is which systems it must be able to operate and sustain, and where dependence on allies remains acceptable.
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Canada Is a Rowboat? Check What’s Feeding the Aircraft Carrier.
The U.S. economy dwarfs Canada’s. That doesn’t make it self-sufficient. Energy, fertilizer, aluminum, lumber and water tell a more complicated story.
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Canada’s LNG Route to Asia Is About to Get Much Bigger
LNG Canada’s Phase 2 doubles more than terminal capacity. Coastal GasLink is expanding with it, creating a much larger Pacific export corridor.
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Who Gets to Be Canada’s Team?
Team Canada is easy to recognize. “Canada’s Team” is harder. What makes a professional club feel like it belongs to the whole country — even if only for a while?
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