The Building Canada Act's debut fast-track designation pits Arctic sovereignty against Indigenous consent
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A Mediterranean cable cut blacked out Syria's internet for 48 hours before engineers rerouted via Cyprus and Turkey and spliced the fibre — a single 1997-vintage cable exposing how thin national redundancy is. The same fragility shows up in power: data-center load is straining the largest US grid. The seabed and the grid are the quiet single points of failure. Watch cable-repair capacity and grid build-out.
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The Aletar subsea cable between Tartous and Alexandria was severed on June 15; Syria rerouted via Cyprus and Turkey before splicing it back
Wholesale power on the largest US grid nearly doubled year-over-year; states impose large-load tariffs while a foreign-influence subplot complicates the politics