Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Ian Bickis
Publication Date: August 10, 2025 - 12:16
Amid tariff turmoil, will Algoma find demand for its green steel?
August 10, 2025
Like some superhero channelling the power of lightning, Algoma Steel Inc. ASTL-T has started using the heat cast off by the arcs of powerful electric currents to make greener steel.
Electric arc furnaces are nothing new – the technology is more than a century old, and there’s already a few in Canada – but Algoma is calling the achievement of production from its first-of-the=kind furnace last month a win as it faces an existential threat from U.S. tariffs.
At an unrelated event, Premier Doug Ford said he was considering widening the public portion of Highway 407 only a few weeks after removing tolls on the route.
August 14, 2025 - 15:02 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Canada
At an unrelated event, Premier Doug Ford said he was considering widening the public portion of Highway 407 only a few weeks after removing tolls on the route.
August 14, 2025 - 15:02 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre said the Liberal government’s electric vehicle sales mandate is akin to “banning rural life” as he promised a nationwide pressure campaign to scrap the policy.
Poilievre took a pause from his Albertan byelection campaign Thursday for a press event in Saskatchewan in which he lambasted the Liberal policy — colloquially known as the EV mandate — as an attack on farmers and rural Canada.
He also promised to launch a media and pressure campaign against the mandate implemented by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau calling for all vehicle sales...
August 14, 2025 - 14:59 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
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