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Corridor Intelligence
by Joseph Soares
Corridor Intelligence is Joseph Soares' strategic analysis show: geopolitics, capital, resources, and the decisions that move them. Each episode explains how power, institutions and money actually move, with every figure carrying its source. Joseph Soares served in the Prime Minister's Office of Canada through the 2008 financial crisis and was Chief of Staff in the Senate of Canada through the pandemic. The written analysis and the free daily Corridor Brief are available at josephsoares.com.
Episodes
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Why Relying Only on the U.S. Market is a Strategic Failure
Send us Fan Mail Daniel Veniez is back by popular demand. He advised three federal cabinet ministers in Brian Mulroney's government, built his own companies in British Columbia, and was sent in to fix Ridley Terminals, a Crown corporation (a company owned by the Government of Canada) that had…
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The Worst Election Defeat in Quebec History, Explained
Send us Fan Mail In 2022, the CAQ won 90 seats. On October 5, 2026, it won none. Quebec’s governing party lost Premier Christine Fréchette’s seat in Trois-Rivières, finished with 13% of the vote, and now faces a Parti Québécois minority government. In this video: how a party goes from 90 seats to...
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Gulf Oil Exports and the Buffer Crisis: What You Need to Know
Send us Fan Mail Gulf oil exports are back to 81% of their pre-war level. Refined fuels, the part that includes diesel, are at 60%. Here is what paid for the recovery, why the G7's 100 million barrel headline needs a second look, and the one line in the data that says when the buffers start to...
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Daniel Veniez: "I Took No Salary to Fix a Failing Crown Corporation — Here's What It Took".
Send us Fan Mail Daniel Veniez was handed a Crown corporation that had lost money for 30 straight years. He took no salary for the job — and within 18 months he had a new board, an unprecedented seven-year labour agreement, First Nations who now saw the terminal as theirs to help build, and the...
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The New Rules of Canada-US Trade: Everything You Need to Know
Send us Fan Mail Canada's Section 338 tariffs just became an outright import ban on three categories: alcohol, dairy and some motor-vehicle products. Here's what the Sept. 29 escalation in the Canada–US trade dispute means for anyone who moves goods across the border. Since 12:01 a.m. Eastern on...
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Tech Leaders at the State Dinner: What They Didn't Tell You
Send us Fan Mail Six of the most powerful people in American technology sat down for a state dinner in Washington this week. One real thing got settled — and it wasn't AI governance. In this episode: the US–China truce that now runs to January 10, the 26% figure from inside Anthropic, the $5.6B…
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The 13-Month Swing: Why Quebec Politics Is More Volatile Than You Think
Send us Fan Mail A three-way toss-up became a landslide in thirteen months, in the same Quebec riding, under the same rules. Every figure is sourced directly to Elections Canada, and set against five swings this size Quebec has produced since 1958. Read the full dispatch:...
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Why the Canada-US Trade Deal Is a Strategic Mirage
Send us Fan Mail Washington paused a 50% tariff on Canadian goods hours before it landed, and called it a deal. Ottawa confirmed only a postponement. Nothing has been published by either side. This is what it looks like when a government reaches for the lever that moves inside a news cycle…
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The $131.2B Bet: Why the Future Isn't What You Think
Send us Fan Mail How power, capital, and resources actually move — sourced analysis for owners, operators, and executives who make decisions under pressure. Five ships transited the Strait of Hormuz on Tuesday against a ten-day average of fifteen — and crude fell anyway. This week the price…
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What Governments Do When They Can't Fix the Real Problem.
Send us Fan Mail How power, capital, and resources actually move — sourced analysis for owners, operators, and executives who make decisions under pressure. Washington paused a 50% tariff on Canadian goods hours before it landed, and called it a deal. Ottawa confirmed only a postponement. Nothing...
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28 Missiles, Zero Defenses: The Pattern Destroying America's Military Reserves
Send us Fan Mail Twenty-eight missiles hit Ukraine on Wednesday night. Zero were intercepted. Forty-eight hours later, Washington told Kyiv it's out of Patriot interceptors — because the Middle East is drawing from the same reserve. While the world watches a possible Hormuz deal, that's the story...
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Five-Twenty: The Fed Just Broke Two Bets in 48 Hours.
Send us Fan Mail How power, capital, and resources actually move — sourced analysis for owners, operators, and executives who make decisions under pressure. The 30-year Treasury yield hit 5.20% — a 19-year high — and almost nobody led with it. Here is what a long rate above five reprices: every...
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The Pattern Nobody Sees | How Decision Rules Prevent Collapse
Send us Fan Mail How governments actually decide under pressure — Canada's 2008 crisis response as the worked example. The decision that mattered most was made in 1991, seventeen years before it was needed. Every claim sourced to the Bank of Canada, the Department of Finance, CMHC, the...
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The Chokepoint Shutdown Nobody's Talking About—$100 Oil Is Just the Start.
Send us Fan Mail Both Hormuz oil routes and Bab al-Mandeb are closed, creating a major shift in global energy security. Learn the real impact. This is the Corridor Dispatch: the weekly intelligence briefing for operators and decision-makers, from Joseph Soares, who served in Canada's Prime...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Corridor Intelligence is Joseph Soares' strategic analysis show: geopolitics, capital, resources, and the decisions that move them. Each episode explains how power, institutions and money actually move, with every figure carrying its source. Joseph Soares served in the Prime Minister's Office of Canada through the 2008 financial crisis and was Chief of Staff in the Senate of Canada through the pandemic. The written analysis and the free daily Corridor Brief are available at josephsoares.com.
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