Skip to content

Brought to you by

Dentons logo

Dentons Mining Law Blog

Updates affecting the mining industry globally.

open menu close menu

Dentons Mining Law Blog

  • Home
  • TSX Listings
  • About Us

Critical minerals: A joint strategy for Western and Northern Canada

By Peter Bryan and Anoosh Loertscher
July 24, 2026
  • Canada
  • Critical Minerals
  • Mining
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via email Share on LinkedIn

On June 25, 2026, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut released Stronger Together: A Critical Minerals Strategy for Western and Northern Canada (the Strategy). Through the Strategy, the seven provinces and territories seek to accelerate the development of critical minerals mining projects, enhance value-chain opportunities and make supply chains more resilient. The ambition is to position Western and Northern Canada, which recorded more than CA$80 billion in critical-mineral shipments from 2020 to 2025, as a supplier of choice for responsibly sourced critical minerals worldwide.

Read the full article here.

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share via email Share on LinkedIn
Subscribe and stay updated
Receive our latest blog posts by email.
Stay in Touch
Peter Bryan

About Peter Bryan

Peter Bryan is a partner in the Energy group in Calgary. His practice focuses on complex commercial, transactional and M&A matters across the energy sector, with particular depth in energy infrastructure, oil and gas, and midstream projects. Peter also advises on the formation, financing, acquisition and divestiture of corporations, partnerships and joint ventures, acting for a broad range of domestic and international clients.

All posts Full bio

Anoosh Loertscher

About Anoosh Loertscher

Anoosh Loertscher is a senior associate in the Corporate group in Dentons' Montréal office. He works with private and public sector clients on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters.

All posts Full bio

RELATED POSTS

  • Mining

Enhancing mineral exploration in Ontario: Ministry of Mines seeks public input

By Greg McNab, Paul D. Shantz, and Jaskaran Grewal
  • Mining
  • Tax

Lithium from brines now a “mineral resource” : Canadian Income Tax proposed amendments confirming the importance of the qualification of “critical minerals” as “mineral resources” for purposes of the new 30% critical mineral exploration tax credit (CMETC)

By Shereen Cook and Victor Qian
  • ESG
  • Mining

ESG Practices in the Mining Sector | A Three-Part Leadership Series

By Jordi Ventura and Carolina Elizalde Yulee

About Dentons

Redefining possibilities. Together, everywhere. For more information visit dentons.com

Grow, Protect, Operate, Finance. Dentons, the law firm of the future is here. Copyright 2023 Dentons. Dentons is a global legal practice providing client services worldwide through its member firms and affiliates. Please see dentons.com for Legal notices.

Subscribe and stay updated

Receive our latest blog posts by email.

Stay in Touch

Check out more at Dentons.com

Misrepresentations in disclosure

Canada: This article examines the legal framework governing misrepresentation and disclosure in the mining context. [...]

Disclosure in mining

Canada: This first article examines how the Bre-X scandal led to the creation of NI 43-101, which now governs disclosure standards for the Canadian mining industry. NI 43-101 aims to protect [...]

Ontario's Data Centre Playbook: New rules for a new era of electricity demand

Data centres are the physical infrastructure behind the digital economy: every email, online transaction and artificial intelligence (AI) query depends on a warehouse-scale facility requiring a continuous, high-volume supply of [...]

Categories

  • Aboriginal Issues
  • Big Deals
  • Canada
  • Chile
  • Compliance
  • Continuous Disclosure
  • Corporate Governance
  • Covid-19
  • Critical Minerals
  • Ecuador
  • Enforcement
  • ESG
  • Event
  • Finance
  • Foreign Investment
  • General
  • Global
  • Litigation
  • Madagascar
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Mining
  • Privacy and cybersecurity
  • Proposed Regulatory Changes
  • Risk
  • Secondary Market
  • Tanzania
  • Tax
  • Technology
  • Uganda
  • USA
  • Zambia
Dentons logo in black and white

© 2026 Dentons

  • Legal notices
  • Privacy policy
  • Terms of use
  • Cookies on this site