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Doug Ford Is The Least Popular Premier In Canada, Poll Says

Premier Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives still hold the machinery of government in Ontario. The premier’s harder problem is that fewer voters appear willing to approve of how that power is being used. Angus Reid Institute’s June 2026 premier approval tracker put Ford at 21%, down 10 points from the previous quarter and the lowest mark […]

Right-Wing Newcomer Narrowly Wins Colombian Presidential Elections

Abelardo De La Espriella is set to inherit Colombia’s presidency with a margin of just 250,830 votes and a platform built for a mandate far larger than that. The right-wing lawyer and political newcomer defeated leftist Senator Iván Cepeda in the June 21 runoff, with preliminary results showing 49.66% for De La Espriella and 48.70% […]

Has Carney Become The Trump Of Canada?

At the very least, Prime Minister Mark Carney is clearly a polarizing politician. But drop the party lines, is he acting like a Donald Trump for Canada? The easy answer: he is not. But the comparison is not completely useless. Carney entered federal politics as the anti-Trump archetype: a former central banker, Goldman Sachs alumnus, […]

Moscow’s Kapotnya Refinery Faces Six-Month Outage After Ukrainian Drone Strikes

The Kapotnya refinery on the southern outskirts of Moscow will be out of operation for at least six months following repeated Ukrainian drone strikes, as reported by Reuters, deepening Russia’s worsening fuel supply crisis. Operated by Gazprom Neft, the plant supplies more fuel to the Moscow region than any other facility. In 2024 it handled […]

China Banks Push Gold Margin Requirement As High As 140%

Several banks serving as agents for Shanghai Gold Exchange personal precious-metals deferred contracts have raised margin requirements to levels that now exceed the notional value of the trade. The sharpest confirmed move came from China Guangfa Bank, which lifted margin requirements for both gold and silver deferred contracts from 100% to 140%, effective after settlement […]

Gold Breaks $4,000 for First Time Since November

A hawkish pivot from new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh has finished what the US-Iran war started, dragging spot gold below $4,000 an ounce on Wednesday for the first time since November 2025. From its all-time high of $5,594.82 set in late January, the metal has now shed more than $1,500, a decline of roughly 30%. […]

JPMorgan CEO Calls “A Bull Market” But Bank’s Earnings Already Showed It

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon’s bull-market comment landed online as an obvious market call but the bank’s own numbers make the point better. Fortune reported that Dimon said, “We’re in a bull market,” while describing the current cycle as difficult to stop once momentum builds. The quote spread widely, with social media users mocking it […]

Granada Gold’s Resource Jumps to 1.76 Million Ounces Across All Categories

Granada Gold Mine (TSXV: GGM) has delivered a substantial upgrade to its flagship Granada Gold Project, boosting measured and indicated ounces by 64% and inferred ounces by 90% in an updated mineral resource estimate. The 2026 estimate reworks the block model behind the company’s 2022 figures, applying stronger gold prices, revised cut-off grades and updated […]

Newcore Gold’s Enchi PFS Pegs After-Tax NPV at $496 Million

Newcore Gold (TSXV: NCAU) has released a pre-feasibility study for its Enchi Gold Project in Ghana, laying out the economics of a conventional open pit operation that the company intends to use as the basis for a mining lease application this year. Using a base case gold price of $3,800 per ounce, the study pegs […]

NexMetals Boosts Selkirk Resource 70%, Shifts Bulk of Resource to Indicated Category

NexMetals Mining (TSXV: NEXM) has lifted the resource estimate at its Selkirk copper-nickel-platinum group elements project in Botswana. The updated estimate is roughly 70% larger than the estimate it replaces and, more notably, is anchored largely in the higher confidence indicated category for the first time. Highlights from the estimate include: The key change here, […]