Parliament is returning after nearly 6 months away — and will look different than usual

America and China have tapped the brakes on a spiralling tariff war. But there are other points of fierce competition between these two nations that haven’t abated — including the race for rare earth metals. In late March, U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to fast-track the mining of critical minerals in a new frontier, the deep sea, a move intended to give America a competitive edge over China. And in an odd twist, it’s a Vancouver-based corporation, The Metals Company, that’s been lobbying power brokers in Washington to bypass multilateral United Nations...