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

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)

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.

I was glued to MarineTraffic before Stephen Colbert made it cool

MarineTraffic offers a real-time window into global shipping.

It started at twenty bucks a month. It ended at three hundred, plus a Senate committee appearance and a wall of debunked tanker myths. Confessions of a recovered ship mapping addict.

Paying more at the pump? Another pipeline would help with that

Crude oil tankers SFL Sabine, front left, and Tarbet Spirit are seen docked at the Trans Mountain Westridge Marine Terminal, where crude oil from the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline is loaded onto tankers, in Burnaby, B.C., on Monday, June 10, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck.

Why Canada, and not unstable countries like Iran, should supply stable, secure, and democratically-based oil to the world, and Canadian consumers.

Here’s what they don’t tell you about BC’s tanker ban

Crude oil tankers at the Trans Mountain Westridge Marine Terminal, where crude oil from the expanded Trans Mountain Pipeline is loaded onto tankers. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Crude oil tankers have sailed and docked on the British Columbia coast for more than 70 years, with no spills

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