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A new plan to save autoworkers' jobs
If Flavio Volpe's plan comes together, Canadian automotive workers will soon be building military vehicles, creating a crucial backstop for an industry imperilled by the trade war with the United States. Trying to launch a military contractor is a new role for Volpe, who has been president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association (APMA) for 12 years, but in a way, it's an extension of that work since the goal is to keep Canadians employed.
A new plan to save autoworkers’ jobs – get them building military vehicles
If Flavio Volpe's plan comes together, Canadian automotive workers will soon be building military vehicles, creating a crucial backstop for an industry imperilled by the trade war with the United States. Trying to launch a military contractor is a new role for Volpe, who has been president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association (APMA) for 12 years, but in a way, it's an extension of that work since the goal is to keep Canadians employed.
Opinion | Donald Trump is picking a fight on potash. Here’s how Canada should respond (spoiler: not like Andrew Scheer) Original
I would like to play poker for money against the people who still believe what Donald Trump and Pierre Poilievre say, because I doubt they can tell a spade from a diamond, a deuce from a Queen. As support for both Trump and Poilievre has diminished — they both have approval ratings of 32 per cent — I am starting to think that their remaining supporters are — how to put it? — not as intellectually inclined as other voters. Let us consider potash, briefly.
Treasury market volatility is capital disciplining the state
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Treasury market volatility is capital disciplining the state
Since the 2008 financial crisis, American economic policy has rested on the seemingly unshakable conviction that global markets for US government debt were bulletproof. This fact would supposedly allow the state to run enormous deficits indefinitely, financing massive tax cuts for the wealthy even while military spending approached $1 trillion. The same confidence underpinned the idea that the Federal Reserve possessed virtually unlimited firepower to contain economic crises.
Eight ways Canada can turbocharge growth
Reprinted with permission from Be Giant, a non-profit, non-partisan media outlet reporting on the people, places, ideas and breakthroughs shaping Canada's future. Sign up for their weekly newsletter. A parade of some of the world’s biggest business names – from bankers to pension funds, venture capital companies to energy behemoths – took the stage at this week’s Canada Investment Summit in an effort to jumpstart billions in new investments.
Eight ways Canada can turbocharge growth
Reprinted with permission from Be Giant, a non-profit, non-partisan media outlet reporting on the people, places, ideas and breakthroughs shaping Canada's future. Sign up for their weekly newsletter. A parade of some of the world’s biggest business names – from bankers to pension funds, venture capital companies to energy behemoths – took the stage at this week’s Canada Investment Summit in an effort to jumpstart billions in new investments.
Eight ways Canada can turbocharge growth
Reprinted with permission from Be Giant, a non-profit, non-partisan media outlet reporting on the people, places, ideas and breakthroughs shaping Canada's future. Sign up for their weekly newsletter. A parade of some of the world’s biggest business names – from bankers to pension funds, venture capital companies to energy behemoths – took the stage at this week’s Canada Investment Summit in an effort to jumpstart billions in new investments.
The anatomy of a Canadian space company's pitch to global financial heavyweights Original
Sarah McLean didn't find out until a few days before the Canada Investment Summit that the project she's been working on for five years - Spaceport Nova Scotia - had made the cut. Specifically, it would be featured in the prospectus put together by the prime minister's office for the massive two-day pitchfest at Toronto's luxurious Four Seasons Hotel. "It was a wonderful feeling to get the confirmation," she said when Be Giant caught up with her near the hotel on the day the summit began.
Eight ways Canada can turbocharge growth Original
A parade of some of the world's biggest business names - from bankers to pension funds, venture capital companies to energy behemoths - took the stage at this week's Canada Investment Summit in an effort to jumpstart billions in new investments.
Can Carney’s Trade War Stop Trump For Good?
Canadians are doing everything they can to oppose Donald Trump. They’ve turned up their noses at dirty Yankee liquor, sworn off Florida’s tacky beaches, and, crucially, voted for the nationalist government of Mark Carney and repeatedly signalled their support for him in byelections and polls. The national conversation has focused, sensibly enough, on trade, but what’s really happening is that Canadians want to stop Trump—to oppose him across the board.
Can Carney’s Trade War Stop Trump For Good? - Macleans.ca
12 hours ago Prime Minister Mark Carney said Canada is pursuing a “unique alliance” with the European Union, a further signal of Ottawa’s efforts to pivot away from the Washington amid a deepening trade war. The notion of Canada joining the 27-member bloc — or at least pursuing closer ties with it — has gained …
Inside the making of Canada’s biggest investment summit
Reprinted with permission from Be Giant, a non-profit, non-partisan media outlet reporting on the people, places, ideas and breakthroughs shaping Canada's future. Sign up for their weekly newsletter. If all goes to plan, the private jets carrying the world’s richest asset managers into Toronto on Sunday night will be returning next year for another such event.
Inside the making of Canada’s biggest investment summit
Reprinted with permission from Be Giant, a non-profit, non-partisan media outlet reporting on the people, places, ideas and breakthroughs shaping Canada's future. Sign up for their weekly newsletter. If all goes to plan, the private jets carrying the world’s richest asset managers into Toronto on Sunday night will be returning next year for another such event.
Inside the making of Canada’s biggest investment summit
Reprinted with permission from Be Giant, a non-profit, non-partisan media outlet reporting on the people, places, ideas and breakthroughs shaping Canada's future. Sign up for their weekly newsletter. If all goes to plan, the private jets carrying the world’s richest asset managers into Toronto on Sunday night will be returning next year for another such event.
Stopping Trump
Donald Trump signs an executive order to remove protection from endangered wolves at the White House on September 4, 2026. Short of organizing Hugo Chavez-style neighbourhood militias, Canadians are doing everything that could be reasonably asked of them to demonstrate their commitment to national sovereignty.
Inside the making of Canada's biggest investment summit Original
If all goes to plan, the private jets carrying the world's richest asset managers into Toronto on Sunday night will be returning next year for another such event. The Canada Investment Summit - a two-day pitch fest at the luxurious Four Seasons Hotel - is a crucial step in Prime Minister Mark Carney's economic plan to unlock a trillion dollars of new investment in the Canadian economy.
Evaluating the NFPp10a/NF5310 glioblastoma model as a faithful avatar for screening tumour microenvironment–targeted therapies
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Abstract Despite positive outcomes for novel targeted therapy screens in preclinical studies, the majority of follow on GBM clinical trials fail to meet their primary endpoints. This translational gap is partly due to models that do not accurately recapitulate the human GBM-TME and therefore fail to accurately predict patient treatment response.
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Carney’s FAFO moment
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Opinion | Canada is more united against Trump than ever — but this trade war is still going to hurt
The only good news on a terrible day is that Canadians are united. The bad news is bad, though. Canada is entering an asymmetric trade war with the largest and most powerful country in the world. If Donald Trump wants to drive us into a recession, he can do so, and there are other horrible things he could do if he wants. The Canadian economy is unacceptably dependent on exports to the United States.
Opinion | Canada is more united against Trump than ever — but this trade war is still going to hurt
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Opinion | Mark Carney’s electricity deal with Newfoundland and Quebec is huge. Here’s why those giant dams spark a big choice for Quebec voters
If there was still any doubt, Mark Carney’s trip to Newfoundland on Monday showed Canadians that he seems to be as advertised. Carney won the election 16 months ago by promising to manage the American threat by building Canada. “We can give ourselves far more than the Americans can ever take away,” he said, over and over again.
Opinion | Mark Carney’s electricity deal with Newfoundland and Quebec is huge. Here’s why those giant dams spark a big choice for Quebec voters
If there was still any doubt, Mark Carney’s trip to Newfoundland on Monday showed Canadians that he seems to be as advertised. Carney won the election 16 months ago by promising to manage the American threat by building Canada. “We can give ourselves far more than the Americans can ever take away,” he said, over and over again.
Opinion | Mark Carney’s electricity deal with Newfoundland and Quebec is huge. Here’s why those giant dams spark a big choice for Quebec voters
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Opinion | American response to Canadian wildfires just proves their addiction to this one thing Original
If Canadians think that our problems with our neighbours will go away once their leader is enjoying his reward — either in the hereafter or a federal prison — we should contemplate the profound and irrational unfriendliness his followers have displayed in the past week. Robin Williams once said that Canada is “like a really nice apartment over a meth lab.” Our neighbours are acting like meth heads: energetic, irrational and belligerent.
Opinion | With his Senate appointments, Mark Carney is undoing one of Justin Trudeau’s smartest decisions
Mark Carney had better hope that Tom Pitfield and Richard Martel are good senators. If they are not, it will be his fault. Carney announced the two appointments to the Senate on Tuesday, setting aside the non-partisan process established by Justin Trudeau who reformed the Senate appointment process for good reason. Every prime minister before him used the Senate as a reward for bagmen, loyal servants rejected by voters and as a dumping ground for those sitting in winnable seats.
Opinion | Mark Carney senate appointments are the break from Trudeau no one asked for
Mark Carney had better hope that Tom Pitfield and Richard Martel are good senators. If they are not, it will be his fault. Carney announced the two appointments to the Senate on Tuesday, setting aside the non-partisan process established by Justin Trudeau who reformed the Senate appointment process for good reason. Every prime minister before him used the Senate as a reward for bagmen, loyal servants rejected by voters and as a dumping ground for those sitting in winnable seats.
Canada’s New Arms Race
This March, days after the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech at France’s Île Longue naval base. Standing in front of a nuclear-armed submarine, he announced that his country would extend the protection of its nuclear umbrella to European NATO allies. Traditionally, the U.S. had provided this protection—but after Donald Trump threatened to seize Greenland and withdraw from NATO, American beneficence seemed less certain.
Canada's New Arms Race - Macleans.ca
This March, days after the U.S. and Israel began bombing Iran, French President Emmanuel Macron delivered a speech at France’s Île Longue naval base. …
Opinion | Trump is closer to the vision of America’s founding fathers than Canadians think
Enlightened Americans will watch in horror today as Donald Trump presides over a grotesque national birthday celebration, recoiling at the president’s kingly indulgences, seeing them as affronts to the memory of the noble patriots who established their republic 250 years ago.
Opinion | Trump is closer to the vision of America’s founding fathers than Canadians think
Enlightened Americans will watch in horror today as Donald Trump presides over a grotesque national birthday celebration, recoiling at the president’s kingly indulgences, seeing them as affronts to the memory of the noble patriots who established their republic 250 years ago.
Opinion | Trump is closer to the vision of America’s founding fathers than Canadians think
Enlightened Americans will watch in horror today as Donald Trump presides over a grotesque national birthday celebration, recoiling at the president’s kingly indulgences, seeing them as affronts to the memory of the noble patriots who established their republic 250 years ago.
No es neofeudalismo, es hipercapitalismo
Fuentes: Sin permiso Los gigantes tecnológicos que ocupan las cimas de la economÃa moderna no han inventado un nuevo modo de producción: son, sencillamente, capitalistas explotadores en el sentido clásico. Uno de los dogmas más persistentes de la izquierda es la idea de que la inversión productiva está dando paso a la especulación improductiva, lo que conduce al «vaciado» de la economÃa industrial y al declive del capitalismo.
It’s not neofeudalism, it’s hypercapitalism
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Meet Eliot Pence, the man turning Canada's defence procurement upside down
When Eliot Pence needed a name for the high-tech drone factory he has established in an Ottawa industrial park, he turned to what some might consider an unlikely inspiration: the swashbuckling coureur des bois of Canada's past. Pence, founder and CEO of the defence technology company Dominion Dynamics, sees himself walking in the footsteps of the frontier capitalists who sought new economic opportunities in what is now Canada.
How Canada Fell in Love with Mark Carney Original
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney won three byelections Monday night, giving him a majority government and a free hand to further remake the government he inherited from Justin Trudeau. Candidates from Carney’s Liberal Party won with large majorities, as expected, in two Toronto districts, known as “ridings,” vacated by Trudeau ministers.
Opinion | Pierre Poilievre is finally acting like a grown-up. Mark Carney would be wrong to discount him
On March 2, when Pierre Poilievre sat down for a podcast interview with former CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge, he jokingly noted that Mansbridge had called him Mr. Poilievre. “You’re the leader of his majesty’s loyal opposition,” said Mansbridge, explaining his formality. “It’s the worst damn job in the country,” said Poilievre, grinning. Poilievre is right. In the normal course of events, the leader of the opposition, whoever that is, looks like a fool most of the time.
Opinion | Pierre Poilievre is finally acting like a grown-up. Mark Carney would be wrong to discount him
On March 2, when Pierre Poilievre sat down for a podcast interview with former CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge, he jokingly noted that Mansbridge had called him Mr. Poilievre. “You’re the leader of his majesty’s loyal opposition,” said Mansbridge, explaining his formality. “It’s the worst damn job in the country,” said Poilievre, grinning. Poilievre is right. In the normal course of events, the leader of the opposition, whoever that is, looks like a fool most of the time.
Opinion | Pierre Poilievre is finally acting like a grown-up. Mark Carney would be wrong to discount him
On March 2, when Pierre Poilievre sat down for a podcast interview with former CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge, he jokingly noted that Mansbridge had called him Mr. Poilievre. “You’re the leader of his majesty’s loyal opposition,” said Mansbridge, explaining his formality. “It’s the worst damn job in the country,” said Poilievre, grinning. Poilievre is right. In the normal course of events, the leader of the opposition, whoever that is, looks like a fool most of the time.
Opinion | Pierre Poilievre is finally acting like a grown-up. Mark Carney would be wrong to discount him
On March 2, when Pierre Poilievre sat down for a podcast interview with former CBC anchor Peter Mansbridge, he jokingly noted that Mansbridge had called him Mr. Poilievre. “You’re the leader of his majesty’s loyal opposition,” said Mansbridge, explaining his formality. “It’s the worst damn job in the country,” said Poilievre, grinning. Poilievre is right. In the normal course of events, the leader of the opposition, whoever that is, looks like a fool most of the time.
Opinion | I learned something about the cruel cost of paradise
If you lay on the beach on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, warming your northern skin and admiring the play of the sun on the waves, you can sip pina coladas made from beautiful local pineapple juice, and when you want a snack, you can pay a few pesos for a little bag of brown Spanish peanuts from the vendors who walk the hot sand all day.
Opinion | I learned something about the cruel cost of paradise
If you lay on the beach on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, warming your northern skin and admiring the play of the sun on the waves, you can sip pina coladas made from beautiful local pineapple juice, and when you want a snack, you can pay a few pesos for a little bag of brown Spanish peanuts from the vendors who walk the hot sand all day.
Opinion | I learned something about the cruel cost of paradise
If you lay on the beach on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, warming your northern skin and admiring the play of the sun on the waves, you can sip pina coladas made from beautiful local pineapple juice, and when you want a snack, you can pay a few pesos for a little bag of brown Spanish peanuts from the vendors who walk the hot sand all day.
Opinion | I learned something about the cruel cost of paradise
If you lay on the beach on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, warming your northern skin and admiring the play of the sun on the waves, you can sip pina coladas made from beautiful local pineapple juice, and when you want a snack, you can pay a few pesos for a little bag of brown Spanish peanuts from the vendors who walk the hot sand all day.
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