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Every Fibre Supply edition published to date. Twice-weekly intelligence on BC forestry — markets, duties, stumpage, mills, regulatory.

Edition 013Tuesday · June 23, 2026

BC's log-haul subsidy — nearly $33M a year quietly feeding pulp and pellet mills — draws fire as 'subsidized logging,' putting a fibre lifeline on the political map

Plus: Saw Creek wildfire shuts 116 km of Highway 1 at Lytton as the BC fire season opens on a scarred community.

Edition 012Friday · June 19, 2026

Lumber climbs to an eight-month high as the duty wall throttles Canadian supply — but BC mills still sit behind a 35% stack

Plus: Canfor buys Western Canada's largest I-joist plant for $68 million, deepening a value-added bet as it trims commodity capacity.

Edition 011Tuesday · June 16, 2026

Round 2 of the CUSMA review opens in Washington without Canada — as the US envoy calls Trump's renewal threat 'an invitation to negotiate'

Plus: BC puts $20 million a year behind wildfire prevention as fibre recovery — heading into a season Ottawa calls the country's highest risk.

Edition 010Friday · June 12, 2026

Ottawa puts $400 million behind forest sector transformation and makes fibre supply priority one — task force report and Action Plan land in Victoria

Plus: Two weeks to USMCA Round 2: Trump 'not looking to renew,' Greer blames Canada, and the ITC bench refills.

Edition 009Friday · May 29, 2026

Supreme Court declines Wolastoqey title appeal — BC Attorney General signals 'bodes well' for province's Cowichan appeal on title claims to private forest land

Plus: Primer · Bill 14 (Forests Statutes Amendment Act, 2026) — what it actually changes for BCTS, contract logging, and fibre access.

Edition 008Wednesday · May 27, 2026

USMCA renegotiation opens in Mexico City — Carney puts wood-product tariffs on the lever list, Greer floats conditional 'Fortress North America' preferential rates

Plus: Kerry Rouck appointed to BC Forest Practices Board — three-year term, West Kelowna RPF with private-sector tenure and Indigenous-community operational experience.

Edition 007Friday · May 15, 2026

BC's first regional forestry hub lands in Merritt — Gorman's Nick Arkle to lead, alongside Province's $2M Make More in B.C. funding for FPInnovations

Plus: FPB Cascades audit — BC Timber Sales 'generally compliant,' but free-growing declarations on three blocks relied on 3-to-5-year-old survey data.

Edition 006Tuesday · May 12, 2026

West Fraser Q1 narrows: $188M net loss but core businesses turn $120M Q-over-Q — and the duty adjustment is the line operators should read most carefully

Plus: Forest Practices Board active period — Douglas Lake Cattle audit complete, Port McNeill and Mackenzie biodiversity audits pending.

Edition 005Friday · May 8, 2026

Minister Parmar pledges permit timelines cut from 45 days to 25 days, calls forestry a "boom and bust industry" amid cluster of 2025 closures

Plus: What the 2025 closure cluster means for Q2 2026 — three mill towns, three different fibre stories, one cumulative read.

Edition 004Tuesday · May 5, 2026

Minister Parmar formally rejects US softwood preliminary findings — "punitive duties and tariffs" framed as harm to both economies

Plus: Box Lake Lumber secures 5-year non-replaceable forest licence in TFL 3 — 445 truckloads/year for split-rail fence value-add.

Edition 003Friday · May 1, 2026

BC's Stumpage Payment Deferral Program — what it actually does, who it helps, and the November cliff

Plus: West Fraser Q1 2026 results — capital allocation continues to favour Texas and South Carolina assets.

Edition 002Tuesday · April 28, 2026

BC's Stumpage Payment Deferral Program — what it actually does, who it helps, and the November cliff

Plus: West Fraser confirms 1.1 billion board feet of capacity removed from BC operations; Texas and South Carolina absorb the redirected capex.

Edition 001Friday · April 24, 2026

US Commerce Department's seventh administrative review preliminarily cuts combined softwood duty from 35.16% to 24.83% — but Section 232 keeps effective burden at 34.83%

Inaugural edition. Plus: 2026 COFI Convention coverage — BC's largest forestry CEOs on fibre access, land certainty, and regulatory reform.