Irving Paper will close half its Saint John, New Brunswick operation due to ‘uncompetitive’ electricity rates. In other Business news: Trump says tariffs on Canada and Mexico ‘will go forward’; how the tariff threat is already driving up housing costs; and BC’s Legislature votes to condemn the tariff move. In related news: the US just launched its 7th review on lumber duties; while BC’s opposition leader says the province should fight back with counter measures. 

In Forestry/Climate news: Canada signs nature agreement with Northwest Territories; a BC ENGO calls for caribou habitat protection; US forestry firings wreak havoc in rural economies; will the Fix our Forests Act work; and this CEO says climate change is about economics not politics. In Wood Product news: innovations courtesy of Eco Guardian, Sterling Structural, and Cambium; and is it time to normalize mass timber construction?

Finally, a special feature on Trump’s re-emergence and political risk in Canadian forestry.

Kelly McCloskey, Tree Frog News