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Steve Verheul Canada cannot reduce its economic reliance on the United States simply by signing more trade agreements, according to a new report by Steve Verheul, Canada’s former chief negotiator for CUSMA and CETA, who outlines a two-track strategy. Published today by the Public Policy Forum, From Reliance to Resilience: How to Diversify Canada’s Trade argues that […]

STEWART, British Columbia – The Nisg̱a’a and Tahltan Nations, together with Arrow Transportation Systems Inc. celebrated the official opening on September 9 of the Portland Canal Marine Terminal — British Columbia’s first majority Indigenous-owned port, marking an important milestone in Indigenous-led infrastructure ownership, transportation and economic development. The terminal is owned through Portland Canal Holdings

On Friday, August 28, the Port of Montreal welcomed a visitor unlike any other: the Neoliner Origin, the world’s largest sailing cargo ship currently in operation. On board were 1,000 tonnes of organic green coffee from Latin America. Behind this operation is Café William, a Sherbrooke-based company with a clear ambition: to combine its passion for

This year’s extended peak season is continuing, with a final bump expected this month that could push September just over the line to be the busiest month of the year for import volume at the major US container ports, according to the Global Port Tracker report released today by the National Retail Federation and Hackett Associates. “We

WASHINGTON — The Arctic Report Card, the annual peer-reviewed assessment of the state of the warming Arctic, will continue under its independent editorial team —  led by researchers at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Alaska Fairbanks —  with new support from the American Geophysical Union. The partnership ensures the report’s

Sea-Intelligence reports that global container vessel schedule reliability dropped to 56.4% in July 2026, a decline of 6.1 percentage points (pp) M/M. “This is the sharpest single month decline since January 2021,” said CEO Alan Murphy. Concurrently, the average delay for late vessel arrivals climbed to 6.06 days, an increase of 0.59 days M/M. This

Norman Wells, Northwest Territories – Today, the Honourable Steven MacKinnon, Minister of Transport and Leader of the Government in the House of Commons, and the Honourable Rebecca Alty, Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations, announced federal funding of $405 million through the Arctic Infrastructure Fund (AIF) to advance the proposed Mackenzie Valley Highway (MVH) Project in the

States again failed to agree on a deal following pressure from a small minority of fossil-fuel producing nations and division among progressive states, reported the Brussels-based Transport and Environment (T&E) activist group. Negotiations at the IMO, which wrapped up in London today, have drawn a blank for the third meeting in a row, as US

ST. JOHN’S, NL — Qikiqtaaluk Horizon Arctic Services (QHAS) today welcomed the Polar Class 3 icebreaker, MSV Nordica, to Canada, marking a significant milestone in efforts to increase the Canadian Coast Guard’s operational capacity and strengthen Canada’s presence and readiness in the Arctic. The vessel’s arrival brings an operational asset into Canadian waters under a

The American Great Lakes Ports Association (AGLPA) have announced a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Great Lakes Alliance of Shipyards (GLAS). It brings  together leading organizations representing Great Lakes ports and American shipyards around shared priorities in domestic shipbuilding, commerce, workforce development, infrastructure, and federal policy. Signed  on July 31, 2026, during AGLPA’s