Automotive giant Stellantis is expanding its U.S. operations. Any sign of an investment turnaround in Germany, which Chancellor Friedrich Merz touted just weeks ago, is nowhere to be seen.
No doubt Trump’s efforts to re-shore auto assembly played a hand but Germany has strangled industry with its net zero madness.
Prime Minister Mark Carney came to power on a platform of change, promising to prioritize economic growth over the divisive politics of the Trudeau era. Budget 2025 was considered the first real test of his premiership, and while it contains some good measures, it continues to follow the modern Liberal playbook of throwing ungodly sums of money at our problems and attempting to centrally plan the economy.
Nextstar Energy Ltd. will produce batteries for energy storage, not electric vehicles, when its gigafactory in Windsor, Ont. begins commercial production next month.
Expanding into the growing market for energy storage production will keep the plant busy until EV sales pick up again, said Danies Lee, chief executive of Nextstar.
“The EV market is slowed down,” said Lee, chief executive of Nextstar. “It’s like a trend that will come soon, but it does not come as soon as we expect it, so while we are waiting, we have this opportunity from the (energy storage system) ESS market.”
Nearly 900 companies – including several large international corporations – have withdrawn from the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi). This initiative requires members to set scientifically validated climate targets in order to align their emissions goals with international standards. However, more and more companies are questioning the feasibility of these requirements. The withdrawal affects approximately seven percent of all participating companies.
Figuring out how much Canadians are paying for government climate change programs is difficult because the information is scattered across the three levels of government we have in Canada.
That said, a rough estimate of the cost for federal, provincial and territorial programs alone (excluding municipal governments) is $503 billion, or $12,062 per Canadian.
Domestic auto manufacturers are calling on cabinet to permanently repeal Canada’s electric vehicle sales mandate, saying it penalizes the industry and threatens competitiveness.
Blacklock’s Reporter says Brian Kingston, CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association, told the Commons industry committee the policy could be overturned immediately to benefit Canadian automakers.
Brian Kingston, CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association, Monday asked the Commons industry committee to recommend scrapping the federal EV mandate for good, not just for 2026. In September, Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended the EV mandate for next year that would have dictated carmakers ensure at least 20% of the cars and light trucks sold next year were EVs.
Why are people panicking about the weather? Climate doomer Bill Gates thinks everyone should just calm down. He believes “climate change” is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of humanity as we know it, a 17-page memo released Tuesday by the billionaire reveals.
Gates now thinks scientific innovation will curb any threats — real and perceived — to the planet’s climate and it’s instead time for a “strategic pivot” away from focusing on limiting rising temperatures to fighting poverty and preventing disease.
OTTAWA — Federal Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson says the question of whether there is a business case for a new bitumen pipeline in Canada will be up to the private sector to decide.
He also suggests the question of whether the country can, in fact, build a new oil pipeline to be an “overfocusing” on a “hypothetical.”
“I think Canada can build many things,” Hodgson told National Post in a wide-ranging interview on Monday.
Carney don’t want no pipeline.
When Donald Trump warned that wind farms were ‘eagle graveyards’ he was mocked by liberals, but now a cabinet secretary is warning that as well as harming wildlife, they threaten America’s troops.
In an exclusive interview with the Daily Mail, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum warned that the towers — which dwarf the Statue of Liberty — can interfere with critical military radars.
Burgum said the Department of Defense is investigating the potential threat, while the FAA fears they could disrupt systems at commercial airports along the East Coast, particularly in the densely populated northeast.
This past Tuesday I attended a discussion between former prime ministers Jean Chrétien and Stephen Harper sponsored by the C.D. Howe Institute in the annual Aaron Regent dinner, and moderated by its affable and well-informed president, Bill Robson. The issue was national unity. In the contemporary manner, guests were invited to indicate the level of their concern on that subject before the discussion started and after it had ended. The majority remained at least partially concerned at the end of the exchange but less so than at the beginning, so they found the words of these two men who between them were prime minister for nearly 20 years, somewhat encouraging.
Scientists for years said they had proof that climate change was accelerating sea level rise. But that's not what the evidence shows. They knew the truth and misled the public. And now I have a long email exchange with a top scientist that shows how they did it. Massive scandal. pic.twitter.com/MNIX1025Fe
— Michael Shellenberger (@shellenberger) October 24, 2025
h/t Mauser
Amidst a collapse in electric vehicle sales and persistent United States tariffs, there’s an emerging consensus that the grand vision to transform Canada into an electric vehicle manufacturing powerhouse is dying.
General Motors Co. announced earlier this week that it would end production of its BrightDrop electric delivery van, leaving 1,000 workers in Ingersoll, Ont., with an uncertain future. Last week, Stellantis NV confirmed it will not start EV production at its Brampton assembly plant next year as originally planned, provoking threats of a lawsuit by the federal government.
Another day, another calamity for the Liberals’ attempt to turn Canada into a global Electric Vehicles (EV) superpower: General Motors has just announced that they’re ending production of Bright Drop electric delivery vans at their assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario.
According to GM Canada’s President, Kristian Aquilina, “These Bright Drop vans are a specialized electric delivery van for commercial customers and, quite simply, we just have not seen demand for these vehicles climb to the levels that we initially anticipated.”
For weeks, Canadians were told, confidently, smugly, that the $15 billion handed to Stellantis and Volkswagen was protected by “job clauses” and “performance-based contracts.” That’s the line Industry Minister Mélanie Joly repeated in interviews, press releases, and on social media. It’s a lie.
Yesterday, we sat down with former Member of Parliament Rick Perkins one of the few people who actually read the unredacted contracts in question and he laid it out plainly: those job guarantees don’t exist. Not in the way you were told. Not even close.
