MBP Intelligence

The premier built her power on the party activists who now demand a separation referendum — and the Centurion data breach has turned it into a democratic crisis she has every incentive to ignore. Key Takeaways: * Since Ralph Klein, small groups of aligned party members have exercised outsized control over Alberta’

At the end of April Prime Minister Mark Carney announced the Canada Strong Fund as “Canada’s first national sovereign wealth fund,” the centrepiece of the Spring Economic Update tabled the following day by Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne. The federal government will provide $25 billion over three years, on

This week, MBP Intelligence turns its attention to the Government of Canada’s Spring Economic Update 2026: * MEREDITH: The Spring Economic Update is about execution and delivery. The worry – if there is one – is that private industry may be too slow to keep up.  * BOESSENKOOL: The Fiscal Miracle That Wasn’

Two recent court decisions have shifted the ground under BC’s land tenure system and mining sector. Here is what is real, what is exaggerated, and what governments can actually do about it. Key Takeaways * Cowichan does not threaten privately held titles in BC, despite political claims to the contrary.

Two court decisions handed down in 2025 have converged to produce the most consequential political and legal crisis in British Columbia since the province’s short-lived Land Act amendments provoked a firestorm in early 2024. This week, MBP Intelligence offers some insights into the politics around this.  The first

MEREDITH: Canada’s muscle of charitable giving is weak and increasingly unequal. How we can change that and build Canada Strong.   Canada's charitable sector is becoming more dependent on fewer donors, more detached from communities, and more exposed to the political risks that come with concentrated wealth. It

This weekend the Coalition Avenir Québec picked a new leader and Premier, with Christine Fréchette beating Bernard Drainville. Quebec’s political landscape is in flux, with lots of moving pieces in recent months, and a provincial election scheduled for October 2026.  This week, MBP’s contributors assess the state of

Consumer sentiment has turned decisively toward domestic wines, but the structural barriers that have long hamstrung Canadian producers haven't moved an inch, and the window to fix them is short. Key Takeaways: * The buy-Canadian wave has produced a dramatic shift in consumer behaviour. Ontario Craft Wineries reports

The first quarter of 2026 is now over, and was supposed to clarify things. Instead it complicated them. Markets are shrugging off the most uncertain policy environment in a decade, Canada’s trade diversification is real but reshaping our leverage with the Americans, and the gap between aggregate economic indicators