Rising Originations Mask Building Stress in Canada’s Mortgage System
Canada’s Fall 2025 mortgage report shows expanding originations, modestly improving risk metrics, and stabilizing debt ratios, while elevated household leverage, surging renewals, and regional delinquency increases keep systemwide pressures high. In H1 2025, lenders grew mortgage originations versus H1 2024 as insured mortgages and refinances surged. Chartered banks issued $291 billion in newly extended mortgages, […]
British Columbia Backs Pipeline Expansion It Once Fiercely Opposed
British Columbia’s government has reversed course and now supports a proposal to boost capacity on the Trans Mountain pipeline system by roughly 40%, marking a sharp departure from its previous fierce opposition to oil infrastructure expansion. The provincial backing comes as BC Energy Minister Adrian Dix pushes optimization of the existing federally owned pipeline as […]
EU Is Now Moving To Build Critical Minerals Stockpile
The EU plans to create a central body to coordinate the purchasing and stockpiling of critical minerals to stop the US buying up global supplies from “under our noses”, the bloc’s industry chief has said. Stéphane Séjourné, the EU’s executive vice-president for industrial strategy, told the Financial Times that the EU had become “collateral damage” […]
Awale Resources Begins 88,000 Metre Drill Program At Newmont JV
Awale Resources (TSXV: ARIC) has begun an 88,000 metre drill program at their Odienne project in Cote d’Ivoire. The program is said to be part of a systematic district-scale exploration strategy, which is set to advance three targets towards an initial discovery, while also seeing the continuation of greenfield exploration across priority targets. The exploration […]
Lundin Gold Hits 491.62 g/t Gold Over 5.20 Metres At FDN South
Lundin Gold (TSX: LUG) has encountered substantial gold mineralization as part of a 2025 drill program that was centered on converting mineral resources into an initial mineral reserve estimate at Fruta Del Norte South. At the same time, exploration drilling has also encountered significant mineralization, confirming that the mineralized system is larger than previously modeled. […]
Ottawa Declines to Fund PEI Basic Income Pilot, Province Says
The federal government has declined to fund Prince Edward Island’s proposed guaranteed basic income pilot project, the province’s social development minister said this week, dealing a setback to a more than decade-long advocacy effort. Social Development Minister Barb Ramsay told the provincial legislature during question period Tuesday that Ottawa does not currently want to partner […]
Muddy Waters’ Carson Block Goes Long on Snowline Gold Corp.
Muddy Waters Research founder Carson Block said Wednesday that he has taken a long position in Canadian junior miner Snowline Gold Corp. (TSXV: SGD) — a striking shift for the famed short seller. At the Sohn London Conference, Block argued that Snowline’s Yukon‑based assets, notably the Rogue Valley Deposit, which he estimated holds around 8 million […]
Netherlands Suspends Control of Chinese Chipmaker Nexperia
The Dutch government suspended its intervention in chipmaker Nexperia on Wednesday after “constructive” talks with Chinese authorities, easing a tense standoff that had threatened global automotive chip supplies. Economy Minister Vincent Karremans described the move as “a show of goodwill,” adding that he appreciated “the measures already taken by the Chinese authorities to ensure the […]
Canada Stuck in Productivity ‘Vicious Circle,’ Central Bank Says
The Bank of Canada on Wednesday warned that Canada is trapped in a “vicious circle” of weak productivity, a cycle it says is holding back growth and undermining long-term economic resilience. In a speech to Quebec economists, Deputy Governor Nicolas Vincent said Canada’s labor productivity growth has slowed dramatically: it averaged about 3% annually in […]
What You Need to Know About Canada’s New Streaming Platform Rules
Canada’s broadcast regulator on Tuesday released an updated definition of Canadian content as part of implementing sweeping regulations that bring streaming platforms like Netflix and Spotify under the same framework as traditional broadcasters. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s decision marks the latest step in modernizing broadcasting rules Canada hasn’t substantially updated since 1991. Here’s […]