Rio Tinto’s bet in the Québec’s Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, to build the first big Western aluminum smelter in more than ...

B.C.’s sole aluminum smelter, located in the northwestern town of Kitimat, has landed square in the crosshairs of U.S.

Find her on Bluesky @amandafollett.bsky.social. The northern community of Kitimat was founded on aluminum. Today, its smelter, the only major smelter outside Quebec in Canada, employs more than ...

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The company, a major player in an industry that collectively sends 80 per cent of its product to the United States, is bracing for short-term impacts of aluminum tariffs ...

The two B.C. regions that include resource-reliant communities like Smithers, Vanderhoof and Terrace stand to lose the most ...

Though most of those are in Quebec, where Pécresse is based, this past week he paid a visit to Kitimat, on B.C.'s North Coast, where a Rio Tinto aluminum smelter employs roughly 1,100 people ...

Starting this week, all unwrought aluminum produced at the BC Works smelter in Kitimat and exported to the U.S.—which is to say 80 per cent—will face tariffs of between 25 per cent and 50 per cent. It ...

Starting this week, all unwrought aluminum produced at the BC Works smelter in Kitimat and exported to the U.S.—which is to say 80 per cent—will face tariffs of between 25 per cent and 50 per ...