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October 13, 2026

Why Doesn’t Canada Refine More of Its Own Oil?

Canada is one of the world’s largest crude oil producers, yet it exports most of its oil while importing crude and fuel from abroad. We examine the refineries, pipelines, economics and energy-security questions behind this apparent contradiction.

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October 5, 2026

You Can’t 25bp a Chokepoint: What Iran’s Viral Equation Says About Energy, Inflation — and Why Canada Matters

Iran’s Parliament Speaker mocked the Federal Reserve by adding the Strait of Hormuz and Bab el-Mandeb to the famous Taylor Rule. Behind the joke is a serious question: what happens when inflation is caused by an energy shortage that interest rates cannot fix? The answer also reveals why Canada’s oil, gas, uranium and electricity are becoming increasingly strategic.

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September 27, 2026

Beyond the United States: How Canada Could Rebuild Its Trade Strategy, Strengthen Its Sovereignty and Create a More Resilient Economy

Canada does not need to stop trading with the United States to become more economically secure. By expanding global markets, building pipelines and energy corridors, improving resource management, strengthening Arctic control, investing in nuclear power and AI data centres, removing interprovincial trade barriers and improving healthcare access, Canada could build a more resilient economy with higher GDP and a lower cost of living.

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August 31, 2026

The U.S.–Venezuela Oil Deal: The 65-Billion-Barrel Headline Hides a Much More Expensive Reality

American political messaging makes the new U.S.–Venezuela oil agreement sound like Washington has suddenly secured an enormous supply of cheap, immediately available petroleum. That is not what happened. The agreement covers access to approximately 64–65 billion barrels of recoverable Venezuelan oil across 17 fields. Those barrels are not sitting in storage tanks waiting to be […]

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