Afternoon front page: Canada’s submarine problem; B.C.’s pipeline ‘extortion’; and more

It’s Monday, July 13. Here are the top stories we’re following today.

It’s Monday, July 13. Here are the top stories we’re following today. Canada’s going to need its aging secondhand British subs for another decade Canada is stuck with the four problem-plagued diesel-electric subs the Royal Canadian Navy acquired in the late 1990s because the replacements are not due to start arriving until 2034.

And then it will take time to train the crews on the new subs. B.C. ‘extortion’ of Alberta pipeline creates ‘such a bad precedent Allowing British Columbia to collect royalties from the proposed new pipeline is “such a bad precedent. It has no logic to it, outside of being extortion,” said economist Jack Mintz.

Look what happens in Alberta when we let it do stuff: Full Comment podcast Veteran Calgary-based investor Brett Wilson explains how the province might boom after just a slight loosening of the anti-development choke-hold Ottawa had Alberta in for a decade under Justin Trudeau. Doug Ford vows to fix law if illegal residents can get Ontario welfare In a post to X, the premier suggested illegal residents shouldn’t get the same support as other Ontarians, and added, along with a link to a National Post story: “If provincial regulations need to be changed to make that crystal clear, we’ll change them.”

Terry Newman: Naomi Klein — from No Logo to Nazis “Professional activist” Naomi Klein has apologized for supporting a U.S. Democratic U.S. Senate nominee accused of sexual assault, but she was willing to overlook his Nazi SS tattoo, Newman writes.