Category: Business

Business

Ottawa could learn from Mexico about how to negotiate with Trump

by Marco Navarro-Genie | Aug 19, 2026

Mexico swallowed the insults and kept its market access. Canada performed its outrage and drew a punishing U.S. tariff wall

Canada’s entrepreneurial drought is a threat to its future

by David Smith and Lois Benham-Smith | Aug 19, 2026
Canada’s China strategy faces an Aug. 19 reckoning

by Scott McGregor | Aug 18, 2026
Ten myths standing in the way of supply management reform

by Sylvain Charlebois | Aug 17, 2026
Trump’s Iran blockade is sabotaging his push for cheap gas

by Rashid Husain Syed | Aug 17, 2026
Big Oil cashed in on the war with Iran. Now Trump is facing the fallout

by Rashid Husain Syed | Aug 13, 2026

Building energy corridors is the easy part

by Joseph Fournier

Nation-sized infrastructure means nothing if you sell the ownership to foreign investors before the concrete dries

One of Canada’s most resource-rich provinces is acting poor

by Pierre Gilbert

Manitoba isn’t poor because it lacks resources. It’s poor because it refuses to develop them

Supply management was meant to save Canadian dairy

by Sylvain Charlebois

Despite decades of protection, the number of dairy farms keeps falling. Supply management reform is becoming unavoidable

China’s changing energy habits are reshaping global oil markets

by Rashid Husain Syed

The biggest force in oil markets may no longer be supply but China’s falling demand

Trade deals signed under pressure rarely last

by Marc Lee

The latest U.S. tariffs show why waiting may be Canada’s strongest bargaining tool

Canada still trades like 13 separate countries

by Sylvain Charlebois

The premiers are celebrating a modest splash of progress on alcohol, but let’s be honest: they’re leaving the massive provincial dam standing firmly in place, keeping a truly free national market locked out

Alberta is betting billions on an unpredictable AI future

by Doug Firby

The province is making a multibillion-dollar wager that demand for massive AI data centres will keep growing

The next oil shock could hit even harder

by Rashid Husain Syed

Oil reserves have plummeted to historic lows following recent Middle East supply shocks, leaving global crude markets dangerously exposed to new crises

What a struggling church can teach business owners

by David Fuller

How can you know what needs fixing if you don’t know why your customers or parishioners are leaving?