Unpublished Newswire

Good morning. We are back from a long weekend to look at the latest trade news, check in on the community healing in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., and catch up on the Olympic Games. Let’s get to it.

I’ve been following the New Democratic Party leadership contest on and off— on when it’s interesting and off the rest of the time. It’s more interesting than you might think. The race doesn’t seem to be a coronation, there are strategic and ideological differences between the candidates, and everyone seems to be raising money. The fundraising numbers suggest that there’s more interest in the party than you might expect or have predicted a few months ago, when so many people were writing off the orange side as a goner. By the end of March, the party will have a new leader and, one hopes,...