My latest articles

BHP dropped second attempt to buy Anglo American, but the copper takeover game isn’t over
Anglo’s bid for Canada’s Teck Resources is rolling forward but could still face competition...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 28 Nov 2025
Globe and Mail
BHP trying to acquire Anglo American, threatening Teck takeover
World’s largest mining company made offer to London-based Anglo this past week after unsuccessful 2024 bid...
By Andrew Willis, Eric Reguly
Published on: 23 Nov 2025
Globe and Mail
Sweden offers Canada a chance to revive its near-dead defence aerospace industry
Building Saab’s Gripen fighter jet and GlobalEye surveillance plane in Canada would create thousands of jobs – and infuriate Trump...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 22 Nov 2025
Globe and Mail
Sweden’s Saab offers to build entire GlobalEye military surveillance plane in Canada
Building the aircraft in Canada would create 3,000 jobs...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 18 Nov 2025
Globe and Mail
New Canadian firm and France’s Eurenco plan explosives factory in Canada to meet NATO demand
The project has a potential value of US$1-billion over several years and would generate 500 direct jobs in Canada...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 18 Nov 2025
Globe and Mail
Indigenous artifacts returned by Vatican will arrive in Canada in December
Valuable collection was given back after long campaign to secure the items’ release from Vatican Museums...
By Erin Anderssen, Eric Reguly
Published on: 17 Nov 2025
Globe and Mail
Pope Leo formally returns Indigenous objects held by the Vatican Museums to Canada
The items, including a rare sealskin kayak, are returning to Canada as part of the reconciliation process...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 15 Nov 2025
Globe and Mail
Saab CEO confirms talks with Ottawa, Bombardier for Gripen fighter jet production
Building the aircraft in Canada would create 10,000 jobs, Michael Johansson says...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 13 Nov 2025
Globe and Mail
A novel bond fund that bets rainforests are worth more alive than dead is launched at COP30 in Brazil
If a public or private land owner can make a return on a forest by leaving it intact, everyone wins, especially the planet...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 11 Nov 2025
Globe and Mail
A Canadian-made Swedish fighter jet may kick-start a domestic defence aerospace industry. But at what cost?
Making Saab’s Gripen here could be a manufacturing boon, or a political boondoggle...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 07 Nov 2025
Globe and Mail
How an American tennis coach set out to become the oldest person to cycle around the planet
Kevin Record’s journey through Europe just a part of a worldwide trek raising money for an Alzheimer’s charity...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 04 Nov 2025
Globe and Mail
Business Brief: Opportunity in aerospace
And hopes to get Canada on the global defence map...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 04 Nov 2025
Globe and Mail
Bombardier, Sweden’s Saab in talks to build Gripen fighter jet in Canada
Bombardier says it is ‘open to providing local expertise if the government of Canada decides to go this route’...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 01 Nov 2025
Globe and Mail
Chinese EV investments are buoying Hungary’s economy. They could do the same for Canada
Opening Canada to Chinese EV production could help save the auto sector from U.S. protectionism...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 31 Oct 2025
Globe and Mail
Egypt counts on a new tourism dynasty as museum joins a revamped Giza
The Grand Egyptian Museum, decades in the making, hopes to show off a nation’s history on the biggest scale possible...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 26 Oct 2025
Globe and Mail
The EV industry is sputtering. Too bad Ontario bet so heavily on a battery-driven future
Customers have spoken and they don’t much want EVs – at least not yet...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 24 Oct 2025
Globe and Mail
Indigenous artifacts at Vatican Museums heading back to Canada after repatriation campaign
The collection includes an extremely rare Western Arctic kayak and a two-metre-long wampum belt...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 20 Oct 2025
Globe and Mail
The $70-billion effort to rebuild Gaza can’t start unless the war is truly over
The work in Gaza would be one of the biggest rebuilding projects since the Second World War...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 17 Oct 2025
Globe and Mail
Two more generations before Jews and Arabs can live in peace, says Vatican’s top man in Jerusalem
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa says ‘the wounds are too deep’ and the healing process needs time...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 11 Oct 2025
Globe and Mail
Artificial intelligence: the good, the bad and the ugly environmental costs
AI data centres’ insatiable need for energy is driving quickie solutions that aren’t good for the planet...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 10 Oct 2025
Globe and Mail
Hamas wants Marwan Barghouti freed in prisoner exchange, but Israel so far refuses
The prominent prisoner, who Palestinians see as a potential leader, is serving a life sentence in Israel...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 09 Oct 2025
Globe and Mail
Egypt is pivoting away from the U.S. and toward China
China has been courting Egypt and other North African countries, building relationships and selling arms...
By Eric Reguly
Published on: 08 Oct 2025
Globe and Mail