Ontario increased its long-term borrowing enough to help pre-fund a $5 billion economic defence account created during the US tariff fight. More than a year after its first financing program opened, however, only about $140 million has been approved or committed through that program, while the province is no longer actively advancing the account’s planned […]

Wildfire aircraft, critical minerals and low-carbon energy sit at the heart of a wide-ranging new partnership that Canada and the European Union intend to unveil at a summit next month, according to a draft joint statement obtained by POLITICO. Leaders will make the announcement when they gather in Montreal starting Oct. 29. The draft statement, […]

Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives were confronted Tuesday with two developments that arrived publicly at nearly the same time but were produced on different timelines: an expected eighth caucus departure since the 2025 election, and a Nanos tracker putting the Liberals 22 points ahead nationally. Global News reported that Parry Sound—Muskoka MP Scott Aitchison is expected to resign […]

Three nuclear reactors capable of generating 2,600 megawatts by 2050 now sit at the centre of Saskatchewan’s energy strategy, a target that would place the province among the country’s more ambitious nuclear players. Premier Scott Moe framed the plan as a response to rising electricity demand that shows little sign of slowing. “We’re likely going […]

British Columbia is trying to turn one of its mining industry’s biggest complaints into a competitive advantage. After years of industry pressure over lengthy approvals, new consultation requirements, and uncertainty around access to mineral tenure, the province is now emphasizing speed. Six months after introducing fixed deadlines for mineral-exploration permits, BC says every application covered […]

A Panamanian government commission publicly recommended an “orderly closure” of Cobre Panamá on Wednesday, hours after Reuters reported that the same body was expected to recommend restarting the mine through a state partnership with First Quantum Minerals. Instead of endorsing the public-private restart structure that had been discussed for months, the commission told President José […]

Hercules Metals (TSXV: BIG) has extended its Southern Flats copper porphyry discovery at the Hercules project in western Idaho, with a 200 metre step-out hole cutting close to 290 metres of mineralization in the first assays from its 2026 summer drill program. The hole was collared west of discovery hole HER-25-25, which the company reported […]

Kobrea Exploration (CSE: KBX) will drill the El Destino copper-gold-molybdenum porphyry prospect this season after BHP approved a US$4 million exploration budget for the company’s Western Malargüe copper projects in Argentina. The 2026/2027 work program and budget was signed off by the management committee formed under the alliance between the two companies, and will be […]

Cabral Gold (TSXV: CBR) has completed its first gold sale from its Cuiú Cuiú district in northern Brazil, moving the junior into revenue at its Phase 1 oxide heap leach operation. The company sold more than 2,400 ounces of gold, shipped as doré to a Brazilian refinery, at an average net realized price above US$4,200 […]

ICG Silver & Gold (CSE: ICG) has struck high grade gold at its Tuscarora District project in Nevada, with the first assays from its 2026 Phase 1 drill program returning 24.3 metres of 10.14 g/t gold at the newly staked Battle Mountain target. The results cover 6 of the 12 reverse circulation holes completed over […]

They have summoned 11 current and former foreign and development ministers, including the sitting prime minister, to testify about their ties to Jeffrey Epstein, while prosecutors separately pursue corruption charges against a former premier and a prominent diplomat couple.

A FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv briefly transmitted an international hijack code and disappeared from flight trackers, prompting Israel to scramble fighter jets before the plane landed safely in Saudi Arabia.

The GOP Senator tried to catch Jack Smith in a lie about a secret Atlanta meeting using a basketball game that turned out to be a women's college matchup in Maryland — and ruined his just-launched VP buzz in the process.

Slovenia's .si domain saw more signups in a single day than it used to get in a month after Trump's rebrand — and the speculative buying started three days before he even made it official.