American Eagle Gold Walks Away From Pacific Booker Takeover Bid
American Eagle Gold (TSXV: AE) has abandoned its hostile pursuit of Pacific Booker Minerals (TSXV: BKM), terminating a takeover bid that still had nearly two months left to run before its scheduled expiry. The decision, effective immediately, means none of the Pacific Booker shares tendered into the offer will be purchased, and deposited shares are […]
Trulieve Becomes First U.S. Cannabis Company to Secure a NYSE Listing
Trulieve Cannabis (CSE: TRUL) is about to cross a threshold the U.S. cannabis industry has spent years waiting for, with the company announcing this morning that it is set to uplist to a major American exchange. The company said its subordinate voting shares have been cleared to list on the New York Stock Exchange, where […]
Supreme Court Unanimously Backs SEC Power to Strip Illegal Gains Without Proving Investor Loss
The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 on June 4 that the Securities and Exchange Commission can force wrongdoers to surrender illegal profits even when it cannot identify specific investors who lost money — preserving one of the agency’s most powerful enforcement tools and resolving a split among federal appeals courts. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote the majority […]
Trump Officials in Preliminary Talks to Take Government Equity Stakes in AI Giants
Senior Trump administration officials have held preliminary discussions with major AI companies about the federal government acquiring equity stakes in their firms, with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman driving the conversations, according to three people familiar with the matter cited by NOTUS. Altman first pitched the concept to President Donald Trump in early 2025 and revisited […]
Anthropic Warns AI May Soon Build Itself, Calls for Global Pause Mechanism
Anthropic published research on June 4, disclosing that its Claude AI now authors more than 80% of the code in its own codebase and warning that the technology may be approaching a threshold where it can autonomously design its own successors, calling on major AI powers to build a coordinated mechanism to slow or pause […]
Tracking The Federal Contracts Won By Trump Ballroom Donors
The companies helping finance President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom now face a second kind of visibility: their donations are being measured against billions of dollars in federal business, regulatory exposure and potential oversight risk. Public Citizen said this week that corporate backers publicly tied to the ballroom project later recorded more than $50 billion […]
Zelensky Challenges Putin to Face-to-Face Talks, Offers Full Ceasefire
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky published an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 4, proposing a face-to-face meeting in a neutral country and offering a full ceasefire for the duration of peace negotiations — the first time Zelensky has addressed Putin in an open letter since Russia’s full-scale invasion began in February 2022. […]
Canada Oil And Gas Rig Count Surge Raises Energy Policy Risks
Canada’s oil and gas sector is expanding field activity at a pace that complicates Ottawa’s energy transition calculus. Baker Hughes counted 162 active rigs in Canada for the week ended May 29, 2026, a jump of 24 rigs from the previous week and 50 rigs from the comparable week a year earlier. That year-over-year increase […]
S&P Shields Index Funds From SpaceX IPO Chase
S&P Dow Jones Indices has removed the S&P 500 from SpaceX’s first-year demand story, keeping passive funds from becoming forced buyers of the rocket and satellite company immediately after a potential listing. The decision is less about SpaceX’s size than about who gets to command index-linked money. SpaceX is reportedly seeking a Nasdaq IPO that […]
Ottawa Buys Time on Environmental Review Overhaul as Critics Close In
Federal legislation overhauling how major projects get environmental approval won’t land until fall, after Ottawa quietly extended the public consultation deadline on two contentious discussion papers from the week of June 9 to July 22, well past the point where Parliament can do anything about it. The House rises in mid-June and doesn’t return until […]