The first Philippine presidential visit to Canada in over a decade centers on energy diversification, with LNG and oil high on the agenda.
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The White House says domestic phosphate output can't meet demand, so it's temporarily waiving duties on Moroccan imports to get farmers through the fall.
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A public wealth fund, a 5% stake, and a lot of unanswered questions. Here's what OpenAI has proposed to Washington.
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A nine-story residential building collapsed in Kyiv's Desnianskyi district as Russia launched a fresh wave of missiles and drones on the Ukrainian capital.
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Brussels says the change protects 30 million retail jobs and closes a safety gap. Washington made a similar move last year, citing fentanyl smuggling.
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The US has refused to renew its trade deal with Canada and Mexico in its current form. While that means the North America’s central trade agreement will remain alive but politically unsettled, it sets for a deeper geopolitical tension. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said the US, Mexico, and Canada met virtually on July 1 […]
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LinkedIn cut jobs despite growing revenue, Xbox is bracing for what insiders call a historic hit, and now Microsoft's core business is next.
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Peter Schiff’s latest attack on Michael Saylor is not really about whether Bitcoin is money, gold, a bubble, or a religion with better merch. It is about Strategy becoming a leveraged Bitcoin capital structure with a growing line of claimants ahead of common shareholders. The pressure point is narrower and more testable: if Strategy’s preferred […]
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Alberta said its 2025-26 Annual Report and other year-end fiscal results will be delayed because the government’s health-care overhaul created accounting complexity across newly reorganized health entities. The explanation lands at a sensitive moment: Alberta is trying to prove it can restructure one of its largest public systems, expand private and contracted delivery, and still […]
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President Donald Trump reportedly weighed an all-out expansion of the war with Iran after a fragile peace framework was already in place. Thankfully, he was stopped by himself. That is the political irony at the center of Washington’s latest Iran turn. Trump reviewed broader military options with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and Joint Chiefs Chairman […]
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First Mining Gold (TSX: FF) has cleared one of the last major regulatory obstacles between its Springpole deposit and a construction decision, winning federal environmental assessment approval for the northwestern Ontario gold project. Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin issued a Decision Statement dated June 30 confirming the project may proceed, capping a federal review that began […]
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Cameco Corp. (TSX: CCO) has suspended mining at Cigar Lake, the highest grade uranium mine in the world, after the mill that processes its ore broke down. The trouble sits at Orano’s McClean Lake mill, where the sulfuric acid plant shut down for repairs. Without acid, the mill cannot treat Cigar Lake ore, and with […]
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Russia, the world’s third largest oil exporter, has turned to overseas suppliers to plug a widening fuel gap after months of Ukrainian drone strikes drove domestic refining output down by roughly 25 percent, leaving the country unable to meet its own demand. India has emerged as the first maritime source of that imported gasoline. Industry […]
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Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh is bringing in former Bank of England Governor Mervyn King into a new communications task force, part of a broader Warsh reset at the Fed, where five reviews are being organized around communications, the balance sheet, data use, inflation frameworks, productivity, and employment. Morningstar reported that Warsh announced the initiative […]
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Global gold-backed exchange-traded funds posted 38.3 tonnes of outflows in the week ended June 26, the largest weekly withdrawal since September 2022, according to The Kobeissi Letter, which cited World Gold Council-linked flow data. In dollar terms, the funds lost $4.7 billion, described as the largest weekly outflow on record. North America accounted for 23.6 […]
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Justice Minister Sean Fraser has reportedly told a parliamentary committee he would “occasionally” check whether judicial appointees had made political donations during the appointment process, a Blacklock’s Reporter report said. “I will on occasion have a candidate’s political activities flagged before a final appointment is made,” he said. That line landed inside an already loaded […]
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The Trump administration’s new supersonic flight push could hand its biggest near-term win not to passengers, but to companies trying to raise money, certify aircraft, and convince airlines that high-speed jets can finally fly domestic routes without breaking noise rules. The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed replacing the US ban on most civil supersonic flight […]
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Less than two weeks after Prime Minister Mark Carney and BC Premier David Eby announced a federal-provincial plan to convert more than 2,200 vacant condo units into affordable homes, the premier appeared in Chinese-language coverage of a recent meeting with Song Youchun, China’s deputy minister of housing and urban-rural development. The meeting was framed around […]
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President Donald Trump posted an image Monday evening showing a large golden bald eagle stretched across the Truman Balcony, writing, “A Golden Gift to the White House for its 250th Birthday Year!” The official White House account later shared the post on X, giving the image a government signal boost even as basic questions emerged […]
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The holiday season is moving into retailers’ warehouses months before shoppers see the promotions. Importers that normally use late summer to build Christmas and Black Friday inventory are shifting some China-related orders earlier, according to Reuters, which cited shipping executives who said the pull-forward is running about four to six weeks. The commercial logic is […]
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Canadian Copper (CSE: CCI) has won court approval to acquire the Caribou Complex, clearing the final legal hurdle in a transaction that has spent months moving through receivership. The company said a judge granted an approved sale and vesting order at a June 29 hearing, which was required for Canadian Copper to receive title to […]
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The Trump administration is expected to formally decline extending the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on Wednesday, activating a sunset clause that sets a hard expiry for North American free trade, as reported by Reuters. Should the three countries fail to agree on revisions before the clock runs out, the pact terminates on July 1, 2036. Under the […]
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NPR removed its story saying US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito was retiring minutes after it was published. The page now bares “Editor’s note: NPR retracts story,” dated June 30, 2026, with the note: “This story has been taken down. It was published in error.” Earlier, the page displays the headline, “Justice Samuel Alito, who […]
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Rep. Michael Guest’s warning that North Koreans are entering the US through the northern border did more than feed a viral immigration clip. It put the House border chair inside the story he was trying to tell. Guest is not a backbencher shouting from the cheap seats. The Mississippi Republican chairs the House Homeland Security […]
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The Supreme Court did more than block one of Donald Trump’s most aggressive immigration orders. It forced the president’s birthright citizenship fight back onto the same constitutional ground that helped define generations of American families, including families built through immigration like his own. In a 6-3 ruling on Tuesday, the Supreme Court rejected President Donald […]
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Canada’s economy expanded 0.5% in April, topping analyst forecasts of 0.4% and ending a stretch of contraction that had stoked recession fears, Statistics Canada reported Tuesday. A surge in oil sands activity did most of the heavy lifting. Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction posted a 2.9% monthly gain, the sector’s best result since […]
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A Richmond landowner’s failed attempt to reopen the Cowichan Aboriginal title case has shifted the fight from who should have been heard at trial to what higher courts will do with one of Canada’s most disruptive land-title rulings. BC Supreme Court Justice Barbara Young rejected Montrose Properties’ bid to reopen the Cowichan Tribes case and […]
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In a video address, Prime Minister Mark Carney says the climate plan inherited from the previous government was “well intentioned” and suited to its time, but argues that the assumptions behind it no longer hold. He says Canada cannot “restrain the growth” of oil and gas to meet a short-term goal and plans must change, […]
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Walmart inked its first nuclear power purchase agreement with Constellation Energy, covering about 176 MW of wholesale supply from latter’s Dresden Clean Energy Center in Illinois, including 30 MW of expanded generating capacity from planned uprates. The retail giant will buy energy, capacity and environmental attributes across two 15-year terms that begin in 2029 and […]
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The US Supreme Court has kept a narrow but politically explosive category of mail ballots in play, ruling 5-4 that federal law does not force states to throw out ballots postmarked by Election Day simply because they arrive later. The decision in Watson v. Republican National Committee reversed the US Court of Appeals for the […]
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