Canada’s New $750M Export Terminal Fixes a Real Problem. Replacing US Trade Isn’t It.
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CANXPORT opened at Prince Rupert on August 27 — 400,000 containers a year of Canadian export capacity. Los Angeles and Long Beach moved 20.1 million in 2025. The terminal solves an empty-container problem, which is a smaller and more interesting story.
Canada Bought 64 Senior Researchers for $541 Million. The Number That Matters Is 5,800 to 2,100.
Ottawa named 64 research chairs on August 27, 48 of them leaving US institutions. Sixty-four people is not a brain drain. What makes the hires worth watching is the pipeline arithmetic sitting behind them — and that number is far larger.
Washington Revived a Dead 1930 Tariff Law Against Canada. Read the Exclusion List, Not the Rate.
The US invoked Section 338 of the Tariff Act of 1930 for the first time in the statute's history, hitting Canada with 50% duties. But energy, potash and critical minerals were carved out — and that tells you more than the headline number does.