Credit where credit is due, U.S. President Donald Trump’s Venezuelan raid and kidnapping has accomplished one important thing: There was hardly a word in the media about the Epstein Files most of the day yesterday! Now comes the important Canadian question, though: Can the fallout from the raid also get someone to build another pipeline for Alberta? This was inevitable, of course, the usual suspects on social media had been saying the same thing in a variety of ways for several hours before Ms. Smith jumped on the bandwagon. In Ms. Smith’s world, every day is a good day to start a new pipeline somewhere, just as no day is a good day to raise the minimum wage. As predicted in this space, publicly traded Canadian oilsands corporations’ stocks immediately came “under pressure” yesterday as a result of the raid.

Source: CBC News January 06, 2026 18:03 UTC