Canadian Corner - Nasty Canuck (Page 3)

Model steel plant on a stack of blank papers held by heavy steel fasteners, with a red wax seal bearing balance scales and short ivory ribbons.

8 Oct 2026 • 5 min read

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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Aa suburban house and electrical service in the foreground, with local distribution lines, transmission towers and a large electrical substation stretching across the background at dusk.

7 Oct 2026 • 4 min read

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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Worker beside a drill rig on rocky northern terrain, with nuclear-industry facilities in the middle distance and a nuclear generating station and transmission towers beyond.

5 Oct 2026 • 5 min read

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.

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Illustrated Arctic harbour at dusk, with a ship, port buildings, a coastal road, power lines and snow-covered mountains.

2 Oct 2026 • 6 min read

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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Illustrated data centre and electrical substation in an industrial campus, with a northern waterway beyond.

2 Oct 2026 • 9 min read

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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Astronaut in orbit above Canada at sunrise, with the Canadian landmass and Arctic visible below.

1 Oct 2026 • 5 min read

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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LNG carrier leaving a northern British Columbia coastal terminal, with storage tanks, forested mountains and pipeline infrastructure in the background.

30 Sep 2026 • 4 min read

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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Editorial illustration of unbranded freight railcars feeding a coastal bulk terminal, where conveyors load reddish potash into a cargo vessel beneath mountains at sunset.

26 Sep 2026 • 3 min read

Diversification Needs a Shiploader. Canpotex Is Spending $500 Million on One.

Canpotex is modernizing the Neptune potash terminal in North Vancouver. The project is a reminder that export diversification depends on railcars, conveyors and port reliability as much as new customers.

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Canadian and European Union flags frame an empty negotiating table, with stylized Canadian and European skylines and a subtle Atlantic connection between them.

23 Sep 2026 • 5 min read

Canada and the EU Have an ‘Associate Member’ Idea. Now They Need the Terms.

Canada and the EU are exploring a relationship that does not yet exist. The label got the headlines; the terms will decide whether any of it matters.

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Workers overlook a critical-minerals mine site under construction with cranes, haul trucks and processing infrastructure.

17 Sep 2026 • 6 min read

Critical Minerals Aren’t Strategic Until the Mine Gets Financed

Generation Mining has assembled roughly $1.3 billion in financing for Ontario’s Marathon project. Now the real test is turning strategic minerals into an operating mine.

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Construction workers overlook rail, power, data-centre and port infrastructure against a Canadian city skyline.

16 Sep 2026 • 8 min read

Canada Has Nearly $500 Billion in Investment and Financing Commitments. Now Comes the Hard Part.

Canada’s first Investment Summit came with nearly $500 billion in investment and financing commitments. The real test is whether Canada can turn that capital into projects that actually get built.

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Canadian freight trucks stopped behind three padlocked U.S. border lanes marked with red Xs, while passenger vehicles continue through an open lane.

10 Sep 2026 • 8 min read

Tariffs Were a Toll Booth. Import Bans Are a Locked Gate.

Tariffs make market access more expensive. Import bans can shut the gate. Canada’s answer is more routes, more resilience — and more choices at home.

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Editorial illustration of U.S.-origin clothing, cosmetics, paper goods, furniture and an appliance in a shopping cart beside a September 8 tariff tag.

3 Sep 2026 • 6 min read

September 8 Is When the Trade War Reaches the Shopping Cart

Canada’s Sept. 8 counter-tariffs reach beyond factories. Clothing, cosmetics, furniture, appliances and even toilet paper are on the list — but prices won’t jump overnight.

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Illustration of trade, transportation and digital connections crossing provincial and territorial borders across Canada.

3 Sep 2026 • 9 min read

Canada Already Has $527-Billion Trade Partner. It's Canada.

Canada already trades $527 billion a year with itself. Removing needless internal barriers—and making Buy Canadian a habit—could make that market much stronger.

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A packaged food product with a maple leaf symbol is examined through a magnifying glass, illustrating how to check Canadian-origin label claims.

26 Aug 2026 • 5 min read

Product of Canada vs. Made in Canada: what those labels actually mean

The maple leaf gets your attention. The wording tells you what actually happened in Canada — and how Canadian the product really is.

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