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If you’ve ever pulled a fistful of leaves out of a pool pump basket, you already understand the only thing that went wrong at Africa’s only nuclear plant in August. Stuff gets sucked toward the pump, stuff piles up on the screen, the flow drops, and eventually the pump quits. Now swap the pool for the South Atlantic, swap the leaves for a mass of dead sardines, and swap your pump for one that’s keeping a 930-megawatt reactor cool. That’s pretty much what happened at Koeberg, which sits on the coast about 17 miles north of Cape Town. On Friday, August 21, Eskom, the state utility that runs the place, cut Unit 1 back to 50 percent. A cooling pump had shut itself off because the seawater intake was packed with what Eskom called “marine material,” which turned out to be fish. Lots of fish.

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BusinessWhile U. S.-owned Stelco insists its plan to lay off up to 500 workers in Hamilton and Nanticoke, Ont., is only a temporary consequence of the Canada-U. S. trade war, new technologies and demand dynamics are working in concert with tariff-related headwinds to compress the industry’s once-robust workforce. Number of jobs in Canada's primary steel manufacturing industry have roughly halved since 2003Jeff Lagerquist · CBC News · Posted: Oct 18, 2026 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours agoListen to this articleEstimated 5 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. Mike Watt, whose career at Stelco spans 20 years, stands outside Stelco Hamilton Works after receiving a layoff notice on Oct. 9. (Evan Mitsui/CBC)Stelco Holdings laid off 85 employees at the end of last week, according to union leader Ron Wells. The week before, he says the company issued 90 layoff notices. While the U. S.-owned steelmaker insists its plan to lay off up to 500 workers in Hamilton and Nanticoke, Ont., is only a temporary consequence of the Canada-U. S.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s nation-building projects will require a strong international talent pool, one put at risk by blunt immigration cuts, says Larissa Bezo of the Canadian Bureau for International Education. Newcomers have been tied, fairly or not, to many of Canadians’ socioeconomic woes in recent years, prompting Ottawa to slam the brakes on the country’s rapid immigration growth. International students were blamed by many Canadians for the affordable housing crisis; foreign workers for depressing wages and stealing jobs; and asylum seekers for draining government resources.

Save-On-Foods is shown here in this fille photo. Some B. C. grocery store customers are being warned they may be victims of a cybersecurity breach.