Netherlands Blocks US Takeover of Company Behind National Digital ID System Over Data Sovereignty Fears
The Dutch government has blocked American IT firm Kyndryl from acquiring Solvinity — the company that operates DigiD, the Netherlands’ national digital identity platform — in the first-ever US acquisition blocked by the country’s Bureau for Investment Screening. The deal was valued at roughly €100 million. State Secretary Willemijn Aerdts of Economic Affairs issued the […]
Conservative MP Pushes Liberals On India Political Interference Gap
Canada has a foreign-interference law on the books, an intelligence agency still naming India as a major threat actor, and a political fight over why the public registry meant to expose foreign influence is not yet doing that work. That implementation gap is now the sharper edge of the India file. Conservative MP Michael Chong […]
Pam Bondi Diagnosed With Thyroid Cancer Weeks After Being Fired as Attorney General
Pam Bondi, 60, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer shortly after President Trump dismissed her as U.S. Attorney General, a private health battle that played out in near-total silence even as her career in government came to an abrupt public end, Axios reported. Bondi underwent treatment and is recovering. The diagnosis only surfaced after she left […]
Paramount Pushes Back As Mississauga Drops Arena Name In A $1.6M Fight
Mississauga is trying to recover $1.6 million from a former arena sponsor at the same time it needs to protect the commercial value of the same venue for the next sponsor. The city-owned Paramount Fine Foods Centre will lose its name on June 1, 2026, after Mississauga ended its arrangement with Paramount Fine Foods, the […]
Elon Musk Floats SpaceX-Tesla Merger With Colleagues Ahead of IPO Week
Elon Musk has quietly raised the prospect of merging SpaceX and Tesla with colleagues, according to people familiar with the conversations who declined to be named given the sensitivity of the matter. The timing is pointed: Musk is set to kick off SpaceX’s Nasdaq roadshow this week, taking a company privately valued at $1.25 trillion […]
BP Ousts Chairman Albert Manifold Over Governance Concerns Eight Months Into the Job
BP (NYSE: BP) fired its chairman, Albert Manifold, on Tuesday, less than eight months after appointing him, following what the board described as “serious concerns raised to the board related to important governance standards, oversight and conduct.” The dismissal was unanimous. Senior independent director Amanda Blanc said the board had been “surprised and disappointed to […]
Guilbeault Expected to Resign as MP, Not Just From Liberal Caucus
Steven Guilbeault is going further than anyone expected. The former environment minister confirmed to CTV News that he will resign his seat as a member of Parliament, a step beyond leaving the Liberal caucus, and told the outlet he plans to notify the caucus formally on Wednesday. The distinction matters. Leaving cabinet in November separated […]
Moscow Considers Diesel and Kerosene Export Bans After Drone Strikes Gut Central Russian Refining
Ukrainian drones have knocked six major Russian oil refineries offline in a single month, pulling daily refinery output to an average of 4.69 million barrels. Refining output is at a low not seen since 2009, forcing Moscow to weigh export bans on diesel and kerosene, The Moscow Times reported. The strikes gutted refining across central […]
Ferrari’s First EV Risks ‘Destruction of a Legend,’ Former Chairman Warns
Ferrari unveiled its first fully electric car on Monday and by Tuesday morning the market had rendered its verdict. Shares fell more than 6% at the open, and the brand’s own former chairman publicly demanded the Prancing Horse be stripped from the vehicle’s flanks. For a company that built its entire identity on exclusivity and […]
Ksi Lisims LNG Lands Germany’s SEFE as Buyer, Joining Shell and TotalEnergies on 12 Mtpa B.C. Project
Canada is set to enter into a major LNG supply agreement with Germany’s state energy firm SEFE, with Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson expected to make the announcement Wednesday in Vancouver. The arrangement is to take the form of an offtake from the C$10 billion Ksi Lisims floating export facility, which is set to be […]