China’s Most Dangerous Enemy Is Not America—It’s Its Own Birth Rate
China posted its lowest birth rate since the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949, with 2025 data showing the country lost 3.39 million people as deaths far outstripped births for the fourth consecutive year. Just 7.92 million births were recorded last year — less than half the total from a decade ago — while […]
Alberta Separatists Submit 300,000 Signatures to Trigger Independence Referendum
Stay Free Alberta submitted nearly 302,000 petition signatures to Elections Alberta on Monday, surpassing the 178,000-signature threshold needed to potentially place a referendum on provincial independence on the October ballot by nearly 70%. Group leader Mitch Sylvestre arrived in a convoy of seven trucks, met by more than 300 supporters waving provincial flags. Premier Danielle […]
Canada Fast-Tracks Permanent Residency for 33,000 Rural Workers
Canada’s immigration department will accelerate permanent residence for up to 33,000 temporary foreign workers in smaller and rural communities, fast-tracking applications through a one-time initiative first flagged in last year’s federal budget. Immigration Minister Lena Metlege Diab announced progress on the In-Canada Workers Initiative, which draws from existing application inventories rather than opening new intake. […]
Breaking: US Tanker Disappears Over Strait of Hormuz as Project Freedom Enters Second Day
A US Air Force KC-135 refueling tanker disappeared from radar over the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday after broadcasting a 7700 squawk code — the international general emergency signal — according to open-source flight tracking data and social media reports. Two H125 light utility helicopters lifted off from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar shortly […]
Sponsored · Altamira Gold Corp.
China Moves to Lock Down the Wafer Supply Chain Powering Its AI Chip Push
China is pushing to source more than 70% of its chipmakers’ silicon wafers domestically this year. The move is the latest front in Beijing’s semiconductor self-sufficiency drive — one that has already seen Huawei target $12 billion in AI chip revenue on the back of surging Ascend processor orders. Reported exclusively by Nikkei Asia, the […]
Iran Denies Fujairah Attack, Points Finger at US Military
Iran’s military denied Monday that it deliberately targeted the United Arab Emirates or its oil port in Fujairah, blaming US military operations in the Strait of Hormuz for a strike that set a major energy facility ablaze and wounded three Indian nationals. State broadcaster IRIB cited a senior military source who said Iranian forces had […]
Cohen Flounders on CNBC, Fails to Explain GameStop’s $56 Billion eBay Play
GameStop (NYSE: GME) CEO Ryan Cohen recently appeared on CNBC to discuss a shocking $56 billion unsolicited bid to acquire eBay. But instead of a confident victory lap outlining a bold vision for the future of e-commerce, the interview quickly unraveled into an awkward and embarrassing exchange. Throughout the broadcast, Cohen repeatedly struggled to explain […]
Electra Secures $20 Million from Canada to Build North America’s First Cobalt Refinery
Electra Battery Materials (TSXV: ELBM) has clinched a $20 million investment from the Government of Canada to advance its groundbreaking project in Temiskaming Shores, Ontario, establishing North America’s first battery-grade cobalt sulfate refinery. The funding, delivered through the Strategic Response Fund, will support the completion of construction and commissioning of the $99.4 million facility, with […]
Sponsored · Selkirk Copper Mines
Boroo Enters Exclusive Talks to Acquire Defunct Eagle Gold Mine
Boroo, a privately held investment holding company, has secured an exclusive window to negotiate the purchase of the shuttered Eagle gold mine, marking the most concrete step yet toward returning the troubled site to production nearly two years after a catastrophic landslide forced its closure. The 90 day exclusivity agreement, signed April 23 with court […]
Oil Sands Alliance Calls for Urgent Government Action to Unlock Alberta’s Oil Potential
The Oil Sands Alliance, representing five of Canada’s largest oil sands producers and over 90% of the country’s oil sands output, is pressing the federal and Alberta governments to accelerate regulatory and fiscal reforms to position Canada as an energy superpower. With no major greenfield oil sands project sanctioned since 2013, the group warns that […]