By Seun Sylvester | Economics, Strategy & Politics | July 13, 2026
The Week the Country Noticed On July 8, 2026, in the middle of Stampede week, Meta announced it will build its first Canadian data centre in Sturgeon County, just north of Edmonton, a $13 billion campus, the company’s largest facility anywhere outside the United States, and one of the largest private-sector investments in Canadian…
By Seun Sylvester | Economics, Strategy & Politics | January 22, 2026
Canada finds itself in an increasingly uncomfortable contradiction. We are a nation endowed with some of the largest natural resource reserves on earth – oil, natural gas, uranium, potash, timber, freshwater, arable land, and critical minerals – yet our political leadership increasingly travels abroad seeking capital from countries whose wealth is derived from the very…
By Nnaemeka Udoka | Economics, Strategy & Politics | December 11, 2025
Canada has been here before. Canada fixed a massive postwar housing crisis while doubling GDP. Today we build houses but neglect manufacturing, energy, and jobs. Time to learn from 1946. In 1946, as soldiers returned from the Second World War, the country faced an unprecedented housing shortage. About 1 million veterans and war brides returned…
By Seun Sylvester | Economics, Strategy & Politics | December 10, 2025
There is a strange irony unfolding in Canada today. The U.S. is once again threatening tariffs—this time targeting Canada’s fertilizer and potash, two of our most strategic export categories. Predictably, commentators are sounding alarms, expressing shock, and trading blame. IRONY #1 — Canadians react to U.S. tariffs as if we’re uniquely targeted. Every time tariffs…
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