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Author: Stewart Muir

A pedestrian walks past a mural featuring oil wells in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, Aug 29, 2026, a day after President Donald Trump announced a deal giving the United States a stake in Venezuela’s oil reserves. (AP Photo/Pedro Mattey)
News
  • News
11 MIN READ

Trump’s Venezuelan flex move sends a message to Canada: Build now or become the 51st state later

Washington is cultivating another source of heavy oil. Trans Mountain's record performance – and the C$33.5-billion case for optimizing it – show
Analysis
  • Analysis
5 MIN READ

Back to school – and straight into the AI question

As B.C. students return to school, Resource Works polling analysis highlights a deep tension: while 63 per cent of teachers see AI
An LNG storage tank under construction at LNG Canada’s Kitimat export terminal on September 28, 2022. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Analysis
  • Analysis
25 MIN READ

Two energy booms, one still waiting

Natural gas, LNG and liquids are moving from promise to steel, contracts and export cargoes. Oil is producing at record levels too
People participate in a march in Vancouver to protest the opening of AI data centres on Saturday, June 27, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Analysis
  • Analysis
8 MIN READ

The real question about data centres

As AI infrastructure arrives in B.C., we need facts, clear rules and a better answer than no
Delegates vote at the 2025 UBCM convention.
Economy
  • Economy
7 MIN READ

B.C.’s resource debate is becoming a capacity debate

UBCM resolutions reveal a growing concern about whether B.C. can still deliver the conditions for growth.
A screenshot of an interactive poll featuring questions about the impact of coastal access on Canadian oil prices and the projected decline of Asian oil demand.
infographic
  • infographic
12 MIN READ

Interactive quiz: solve the $40-billion question

Invest in a coastal pipeline, or heat pumps and electric buses? Tweak six core assumptions to uncover the true cost of your
In 1969 the City of Vancouver was granted a coat of arms. A logger and a fisherman hold up the shield. A ship crowns it. The sea runs through the middle. Image by Jack Ryan Morris - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
Economy
  • Economy
26 MIN READ

The resource economy you can’t see

How Metro Vancouver became the head office, the trading floor and the export gateway of a resource economy it has stopped recognising—and
Canada's premiers hold a press conference closing the Council of the Federation meetings in Charlottetown on Wednesday July 22, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darren Calabrese
Analysis
  • Analysis
9 MIN READ

Canada has agreed to build. Now publish the real clock

The premiers’ new consensus on energy corridors and faster approvals is significant. But Canada still cannot say how long a major project
Don Wright at the IPSS 2022
Analysis
  • Analysis
7 MIN READ

Horgan’s former top public servant tells Canada to drop the demonization of Alberta

Don Wright ran B.C.'s public service. His new reading of 30 years of federal fiscal data says Alberta's oilsands quietly paid the