The Resource Leverage Idea Uniting Chrétien And Poilievre: Is This How Canada Should Retaliate?
A former Liberal prime minister and the sitting Conservative leader are both arguing Canada should turn its energy and mineral wealth into leverage against Washington.
What Washington Really Demanded Before Canada Walked Away
Carney’s own account and sourced reporting point to fights over critical minerals, dairy licensing, auto content rules and Canada’s outside trade relationships. A far longer, unverified list making the rounds online adds a claimed veto over Canadian infrastructure.
Franco-Nevada Has $4.3 Billion And Nowhere To Put It | Q2 2026 Earnings
Franco-Nevada (TSX: FNV) just delivered another strong quarter, but the most interesting part of the earnings call had very little to do with revenue, margins, or production. The company is now sitting on roughly $4.3 billion of available capital, has no debt, and continues to generate hundreds of millions in cash. The problem is deployment. […]
Barrick Mining Got the Gold Right and the Strategy Wrong? – Q2 2026 Earnings
Barrick Mining (TSX: ABX) just delivered one of its strongest operational quarters in years. Gold production beat guidance, costs remained within the company’s range, revenue increased while major peers declined, and capital spending guidance actually came down. Yet the stock still sold off hard. The problem was not really the mines. It was everything surrounding […]
Sponsored · Altamira Gold Corp.
Agnico Eagle Q2 Earnings: Record Cash Flow, Despite Gold Prices
Agnico Eagle (TSX: AEM) just delivered the strongest quarter in its history by free cash flow, while doing something most of its peers could not: increasing production and lowering unit costs in a tougher gold environment. The company produced more than 855,000 ounces of gold in Q2, generated $1.34 billion in free cash flow, and […]
Mining Can Make You Rich or Wipe You Out | Ross Beaty
In this conversation with Ross Beaty, Chairman Emeritus & Special Adviser to Equinox Gold Corp. (TSX: EQX, NYSE: EQX) and Chair of Lumina Metals Corp. (TSX: LMCU, WSE: LMCU), we discuss what decades of building mining companies have taught him about risk, speculation, timing, and where the best opportunities are in the sector today. Ross […]
The Oil Shock Is Forcing Asia to Find New Supply | Delayne Weeks – Angkor Resources
In this conversation with Delayne Weeks, CEO of Angkor Resources Corp. (TSXV: ANK), we discuss the company’s effort to make Cambodia’s first onshore oil and gas discovery and why its Block VIII project is now moving toward exploratory drilling. Delayne explains what 350 line kilometres of seismic revealed, including three large anticline structures with four-way […]
Gold Is Still Going to $30,000 | Simon Marcotte
In this conversation with Simon Marcotte, former CEO of Northern Superior Resources following its $375 million acquisition by IAMGOLD, we revisit his long-standing $30,000 gold thesis and why he says nothing has changed in his outlook. Simon explains why he believes 2027 could become a major turning point for gold as the Fed moves away […]
Sponsored · Selkirk Copper Mines
Ottawa Walks Away from Trade Table over Late U.S. Term Changes
A set of eleventh-hour revisions to the American position, which Prime Minister Mark Carney branded unfair, uneconomic and corrosive to the credibility of any agreement, has prompted Ottawa to abandon trade negotiations with the United States. Announced late Friday, the move followed a week of talks in Washington aimed at closing a deal before the […]
Canadian Retail Sales Climb 0.6% in June on Merchandise Gains
A reversal may be looming in July, but Canadian retailers closed out June on solid footing, with sales advancing 0.6% to $74.3 billion. Early data points to much of that momentum unwinding the following month. Seven of nine subsectors posted higher sales in June. Leading the pack were general merchandise retailers, up 2.7% in a […]