US Treasury Revokes Iran Oil Waiver After Brief Sanctions Pause
The US Treasury has cut short a sanctions waiver that briefly reopened parts of the Iranian oil trade, replacing a 60-day authorization with a 10-day wind-down that bars new purchases or loadings from July 7. The Office of Foreign Assets Control said General License X, which had authorized transactions involving Iranian-origin crude oil, petrochemical products […]
Meta Is Pembina’s Unnamed Customer Of Alberta’s Gas-Fired AI Data Centre, Juno News Reports
The question around Alberta’s new AI data-centre push is no longer whether hyperscalers want land near Edmonton. It is whether they can secure enough electricity without colliding with the provincial grid. Pembina Pipeline Corporation has now approved a $4.6 billion Greenlight Electricity Centre in Sturgeon County, and Juno News reports the unnamed data-centre customer is […]
UAE’s $70B Commitment To Canada Is Ready, The Project Is Not
Canada has a rare economic embarrassment: a foreign investor says it wants to deploy tens of billions of dollars, but Ottawa’s project pipeline is not ready to take the money. The mismatch sits at the center of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s attempt to turn Canada into a faster, more independent investment destination. In November 2025, […]
Equinox Unloads Versamet Royalties Stock For $130 Million In Proceeds
Equinox Gold (TSX: EQX) has trimmed its stake in Versamet Royalties (TSX: VMET) rather substantially. The company has sold 8,713,000 common shares of the royalty company for gross proceeds of C$130 million. The gold producer arranged the sale as a block trade through National Bank Financial Inc. Before the disposition, Equinox held 11,617,915 Versamet shares, […]
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Orezone Guides Casa Berardi to 62,000-67,000 Ounces in Transition Year
Orezone Gold (TSX: ORE) has laid out production and cost guidance for the Casa Berardi mine in Quebec, its first full outlook for the asset since acquiring it from Hecla in late March. The company expects Casa Berardi to produce between 62,000 and 67,000 ounces of gold over the period from March 25 to December […]
Israel Defense Supplier Logged 850K Gaza, Lebanon War Targets, The Guardian Reports
The Israeli defense company Elbit Systems’ Tzayad digital army program reportedly identified or processed an 850,000-item figure during Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon, according to reporting by The Guardian on an Elbit presentation at a recent Royal United Services Institute land warfare conference in London. The outlet reported that a slide cited more than […]
Fired EPA Biologists Sue Over Trump Dissent Letter
Two former biologists at the Environmental Protection Agency’s Great Lakes Toxicology and Ecology Division in Duluth, Minnesota, Alexander Cole and Stephanie Eytcheson, are among seven former EPA employees suing the agency and Administrator Lee Zeldin after they were fired in 2025 for signing a public “Declaration of Dissent.” The cases were filed June 30, 2026, […]
Ukraine Claims Its Largest Single-Night Strike on Russia’s Shadow Fleet Yet
USF says it struck 10 vessels in a single overnight operation, hitting tankers capable of carrying up to 50,000 tonnes of fuel, part of a monthslong campaign that’s already forced Crimea to suspend fuel sales.
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Is the Trump Curse Real? It Appears Every Team He’s Rooted for in Person Has Lost
From the Super Bowl to Monday’s World Cup exit, every major game Trump has attended in person has ended in a loss for the team he was rooting for.
Did The Hill Accidentally Publish an Obituary-Style Piece on Mitch McConnell?
A “DO NOT USE” placeholder headline on a McConnell retrospective briefly went live at The Hill, right as his three-week hospitalization remains unexplained.