Martin Patriquin is a Quebec correspondent for The Logic, covering the province’s innovation economy and the transformation of its legacy businesses, and writing The Logic’s biweekly Quebec Ink column. He was previously Quebec bureau chief for Maclean’s. A National Magazine Award winner, he has written for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Walrus, Vice, BuzzFeed and The Globe and Mail, and is a regular panelist on CBC’s Power & Politics.
The U.S. is hugely reliant on Canadian aluminium to build everything from beer cans to bombs. Even Apple is getting caught in the crossfire of Trump’s trade war.
Ontario-based Xplore could receive substantial government funding to further expand its rural fibre-optic infrastructure if Quebec cuts ties with Elon Musk’s Starlink.
Quebec’s grand plan to digitize its system for licensing automobiles and drivers is over budget and technically flawed. For Premier François Legault, it could become a fin de régime crisis.
Delivery times in Montreal are now far slower than Toronto. Sources say Amazon hasn't subleased any of its warehouses in Quebec, leaving two million square feet of space unused
