A royal screw-up on royalties

Don’t conflate forecast errors with new oil and gas royalty scheme.
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 how Canada answers: build choices of its own.
Ten years of malaise. One chance to fight back.

A Cenovus executive says the federal-provincial MOU won’t be perfect, but it’s Canada’s best shot at reversing a decade of lost ground.
The green movement didn’t stop pipelines. It nationalized them.

How 15 years of political warfare transformed Canadian capitalism—and why the state may be building its way back out
Power politics meets hard physics

From the ‘extraction’ of Nicolás Maduro to Mark Carney’s Nixon-to-China moment, Doomberg explains why physics—not political virtue—is the only policy that truly matters.
Here’s what they don’t tell you about BC’s tanker ban

Crude oil tankers have sailed and docked on the British Columbia coast for more than 70 years, with no spills
Baiton calls for pragmatic reset on energy policy

CAPP CEO warns that Canada’s energy advantage is slipping away through incrementalism and policy paralysis
After Trans Mountain’s success, Canada has a chance to modernize how it builds

Value flagged of simplifying approvals, attracting investment, and turning resource strength into national prosperity
Canada’s resource complex: how Carney might finally break the spell

After years of self-doubt and performative paralysis, Ottawa realizes that Canada’s future strength depends on investing in, not prohibiting, its own prosperity