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.
What B.C.’s oil and gas build-out actually delivered
A new study by economist Philip Cross finds that a decade of pipelines, LNG and upstream investment nearly doubled B.C.’s real oil and gas output, opened new export markets and created the province’s highest-paid jobs.
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 beliefs.
Energy advocates cannot rest, for the next battle of ideas over pipelines will soon begin
Even with the public onside, the case for jobs, tax revenue and small-town renewal still has to be made
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
The accidental corridor
By closing the north, Ottawa and Victoria may have opened the only pipeline route that can actually get built
When Indigenous Owners Become the Target
The attack on Gitxsan Development Corporation vehicles isn’t an isolated incident — it’s the logical endpoint of a campaign that has learned to treat Indigenous economic actors as infrastructure targets
The Corridor
A river crossing in the BC interior. A manufactured wilderness. A nation that still hasn’t had an honest conversation about what it actually built — and what was done to stop it.
The protest industrial complex
The road to the drill site: how theory, money, and militant fusion led to the most costly unsolved act of domestic terrorism in Canadian history.