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Canada Just Shut Down 125 Years of Steel. What Replaces It Is Shocking Everyone

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On January 18th, 2026, a blast furnace in Sault Ste. Marie went cold for good, ending 125 years of coal based steelmaking at Algoma. Hamilton promised the same and quietly moved its clean iron plan to Quebec. Northern Quebec is now mining some of the purest iron ore on Earth, Baffin Island holds iron so rich it ships straight out of the ground, and Sorel-Tracy is testing a cleaner way to smelt. This is how Canada is changing the way it makes steel, and why it all starts with a bridge that fell in 1907.

Chapters
0:00 The bridge that fell
1:48 What is coming
2:57 Iron's dirty secret
5:14 The furnace that went dark
7:46 Hamilton's promise
10:40 The purest ore
12:22 Iron at the top of the world
14:01 Sorel-Tracy's experiment
15:40 Already happening
16:40 The scorecard
17:23 The ring
19:09 Your turn

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20 Comments

@RoseLegros-h2n 6 hours ago

Amazing video. Was not aware of just about everything i learned from this video ❤ thank you, this is extremely educational

@lizthor-larsen7618 5 hours ago

And then, in 1958 another bridge fell during construction...this time in Vancouver. Also an engineering miscalculation. 19 men died: 18 workers and 1 rescue diver. Here too, engineers now wear an iron ring from this bridge. It is now known as the Second Narrows Ironworkers Memorial Bridge.

@BipBop-r4c 3 hours ago

All three should be fast tracked. Great beginning and ending about the bridge disaster and how it impacted everyone across Canada. Canada needs to keep innovating. Look what happen in Pittsburg. Shut down the entire baking coal factories. They knew it was killing people but money is the only reason it kept going. By not innovating they shot themselves in the foot. No one bother to find a better way to bake coal safely for steel making. Canada is doing things the right way by looking after our environment.

@TeunisMarinus 5 hours ago

All 3 and build pipelines going East and West.

@PAPOOSELAKESURFER 4 hours ago

During World War 2 Southern California processed its own iron ore with its own still existing steel mill to build navy ships in Los Angeles harbor.

@Dddss71710 2 hours ago

Ont had lots of hydro too.

@BradJames-f9w 7 hours ago

And yet it happened again in 1958 in Vancouver BC

@KarlHinton-w9s 4 hours ago

Wait a minute, the slag ha silica? They make computer chips outta that & allumina they make cans outta thatand they call it slag

@Ray-e8k8w 6 hours ago

The steel mill in Regina Saskatchewan has had electric arc furnaces for more than 50 years

@WashingtonDecoded-e3l 5 hours ago

Yup 👍

@NBCanuck2345 6 hours ago

Where is Stelco in your chart ?

@edison3571 5 hours ago

Then why are you importing steel from China?

@KarlHinton-w9s 4 hours ago

Chargethe seel companies for polluting rivers and streams and lakes

@lindasteinkirchner1216 1 hour ago

Ark furnace can only make steel from recycled steel. A blast furnace makes organic steel, better !

@ArmandQuan 16 minutes ago

Why is Canada able to innovate and be within budget. Everything in the US has cost overruns.

@alangilroy3914 2 hours ago

And all that processing is expensive and that makes that steel unaffordable and we have turned to China for cheep steel,so much for that story.

@FrankMaloy-m5g 4 hours ago

Very informative and great advancement but you have to compete with Cheap Chinese steel. Your PM has granted China $33B for your LNG plant. So, what's it going to be clean steel or cheap steel? The market will choose the cheap steel as long as the quality is the same. It's a world market

@NelsonWhite-i2b 4 hours ago

LOL Free Trade Good Job To The Elites. Now What As You Sent Jobs Away For Cheaper Labour And Did Not Give The Consumers The Lower Cost. All Countries Now Are Paying Can Not Take Care Of There Own Farms. And Produce. Let Alone Electronics. That China Has Built For Years. At Lower Wages. Who Is Smiling Now. Are These Companies Going To Bring Back Those Jobs. For Lower Wages How Does That Happen As Housing And Food And Energy Has Been Extorted. The Rich Have Destroyed Markets. The Elite Fools Have Fucked The World. NO Way They Should Be As Rich As They Are As The Paid Slaves Make Them Rich. We Are All Nothing More Then Paid Slaves On A Chart Of Our Wages. Could Write A Book On The War Machines That People Pay For From Taxes As The Elites Get Richer. The World Should Have Free Health Care. As These Idiots Create Wars To Make Money. ( Money And Taxes )