Spanish Government Orders Removal of 65,000 Airbnb Listings in Housing Crisis Crackdown
Spain’s government has ordered Airbnb (NASDAQ: ABNB) to immediately remove more than 65,000 holiday rental listings from its platform, marking the country’s most aggressive action yet against short-term rentals that officials blame for exacerbating a nationwide housing affordability crisis. The Consumer Rights Ministry announced Monday that the targeted listings violated existing regulations by failing to […]
Canada Population Growth Stalls As Immigration Cuts Take Effect
Canada’s population growth has effectively stalled, rising by just 20,107 people in the first quarter of 2025 as the federal government’s immigration restrictions take hold, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday. The 0.0% quarterly growth rate marks the country’s slowest population increase since the COVID-19 pandemic and represents the second-slowest growth since comparable records began in 1946. […]
Ford Links Indigenous Funding To Opening First Nations Lands for Mining
Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s off-the-cuff warning that First Nations “can’t just keep coming hat in hand” landed hours before a scheduled summit with 39 Anishinabek chiefs—and instantly reframed the meeting from relationship building to damage control. Declaring he has “treated [First Nations] like gold,” Ford tied future provincial support to Indigenous acceptance of mining projects, […]
Empire Company’s 2025 Record Revenue Still Posted A Net Income Drop
Sobeys parent firm Empire Company (TSX: EMP.A) reported its Q4 and full-year 2025 financials, with booked quarterly revenue of $7.64 billion, up 3.0% year-on-year, and full-year sales of $31.28 billion, a 1.8% rise. Gross profit advanced 5.1% in the quarter, lifting gross margin 50 bp to 27.6%, but annual net margin slipped 10 bp to […]
Trump Reportedly Approves Iran Strike Plan As Khamenei Rejects Surrender
Tensions are palpable as we inch closer towards a possible global conflict. Yesterday Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei brushed aside US President Donald Trump’s demand for “unconditional surrender,” insisting “the Iranian nation will not capitulate to anyone in the face of coercion.” Hours later the Islamic Republic’s UN mission doubled down, vowing to meet […]
Electra Battery Metals Begins Early Works Construction For Cobalt Refinery Restart
Electra Battery Metals (TSXV: ELBM) has begun early works construction at its past-producing cobalt refinery in Ontario. The program is said to be in advance of full-scale construction that is set to occur at the refinery as part of its planned restart. The program consists of site-level activities that are preparing the property for future […]
CanAlaska Identifies Multiple Geophysical Targets At Frontier Following Airborne Program
CanAlaska Uranium (TSXV: CVV) has received the results from a series of airborne geophysical surveys conducted across the 16,000 hectare Frontier Project in Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin. Several new exploration targets are said to have been identified in connection with the surveys. The airborne program saw CanAlaska conduct high resolution VTEM Plus, horizontal magnetic gradient and […]
Tudor Gold Begins 6,000 Metre Drill Program At Treaty Creek
Tudor Gold (TSXV: TUD) has begun their 2025 exploration program at their flagship Treaty Creek project in northwestern BC. The program is set occur in a series of phases, with the first now underway. Under phase one of the 2025 exploration program, Treaty intends to drill test a total of 6,000 metres as part of […]
Chevron Acquires Arkansas, Texas Lithium Rights in EV Push
Energy giant Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) announced Tuesday it has acquired lithium extraction rights across approximately 125,000 acres in Arkansas and Texas, marking the company’s entry into domestic lithium production as demand grows for electric vehicle batteries. The acquisition comes as the global lithium market faces a tightening supply outlook, with analysts projecting a shift […]
US Clears Bahrain Port, Signalling Trump’s Endgame on Iran
The entire US naval contingent based in Bahrain steamed into the Persian Gulf overnight, a rapid redeployment Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth cast as “purely defensive” but which regional analysts interpret as a poised hammer should Iran reject President Donald Trump’s demand to halt uranium enrichment. Seasoned Gulf hands view it as the last major move […]