Tag: Stelco


  • Steel Job Fight

    Ottawa has given Cleveland-Cliffs five business days to explain how it will honour the employment undertakings it signed to win approval for its $3.4 billion takeover of Stelco. Industry Minister Melanie Joly says the trade war is no defence. OTTAWA and HAMILTON, Ont., Oct. 8, 2026 The federal government has opened a direct legal confrontation…

  • Stelco Cuts 500

    Cleveland-Cliffs idles Hamilton cold mill and galvanizing lines as Ottawa weighs Investment Canada Act enforcement against the American owner that pledged to protect Canadian jobs HAMILTON, Ont., Oct. 4, 2026 – The single largest casualty yet of the Canada-U.S. steel war carries an American parent company’s name, a Canadian flag on its gate, and a…

  • Steel Jobs Cut

    Stelco will idle its cold-rolled and coated lines at Hamilton Works on Oct. 9, cutting as many as 500 positions, after demand in its traditional markets fell by nearly a quarter and the company declined both provincial and federal tariff aid HAMILTON, Ont., Oct. 3, 2026 The most concrete casualty yet of the Canada United…

  • Steel Squeeze

    Stelco is idling finishing lines in Hamilton and cutting 350 jobs in the same week that small Canadian fabricators say Ottawa’s own quota wall has priced them out of Canadian steel. The protection is working at one end of the chain and failing at the other. HAMILTON, Ontario, October 1, 2026. Canada’s steel policy is…