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The Middle East oil shock

Oil is sold on a world market, so Canadian refiners pay the world price. No official negotiations to end the war are under way.

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Radio-Canada / CBC Analysis Canada's oil windfall may yet wipe out its losses from tariffs Published Sep 15, 2026 ici.radio-canada.caRead original source (opens in a new tab)

Sections on the Bab al-Mandab strait and the pipeline, and on oil revenue in Canada

Analysis piece carrying original CBC interviews (Calnan, Stanford, Meredith, Pardy). The feed copy held has lost its quotation marks, so nothing from it is quoted directly. Per the citation ladder it grounds only attributed claims. Its attribution of the pipeline attack differs from other reports. It marks US dollars explicitly, so its unmarked dollar figures are read as Canadian.

Retrieved Sep 16, 2026. Original historical capture has not been verified.

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Natural Resources Canada Official record Weekly Average Retail Prices for Regular Gasoline in 2026 (Canada) Published Sep 15, 2026 www2.nrcan.gc.caRead original source (opens in a new tab)

Rows for the weeks ending 2026-07-28, 2026-08-11, 2026-09-01, 2026-09-08 and 2026-09-15, and the margin notes

Live data page with no publication date. The row for the week ending Tuesday, September 15, 2026 is treated as available the next day. Prices include taxes, come from Kalibrate's survey of cities, and 'do not represent provincial or state averages'. The page does not say how the Canada figure is weighted. A row labelled week ending 2026-09-22 is a partial week after the cutoff and is not used. Raw copy: evidence/mideast-oil-shock/primary-raw-oilshock/nrcan-weekly-regular-gasoline.html.

Retrieved Sep 20, 2026. Original historical capture has not been verified.

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Sep 15, 2026Canadian drivers pay more, and oil-producing governments collect more

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Evidence forRegular gasoline averaged C$1.87 a litre in Canadian cities in the week ending September 15, 2026, by Natural Resources Canada's weekly average, taxes included. The same average was C$1.40 in the week ending February 24, 2026, the last full week before the war began. It had touched C$1.87 in the week ending July 28 and was C$1.71 in the week ending August 11.Explore this claim →

Statistics Canada Official record The Daily: Consumer Price Index, August 2026 Published Sep 14, 2026 www150.statcan.gc.caRead original source (opens in a new tab)

Headline paragraph and the section 'Gasoline prices increase at a slower pace'

Official August 2026 CPI release, published two days before the cutoff. The word 'blockade' does not appear in it. Raw copy: evidence/mideast-oil-shock/primary-raw-oilshock/statcan-cpi-august-2026-09-14.html.

Retrieved Sep 20, 2026. Original historical capture has not been verified.

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Sep 15, 2026Canadian drivers pay more, and oil-producing governments collect more

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Evidence forGasoline cost 22.8 per cent more in August 2026 than a year earlier, by Statistics Canada's release of September 14. That was down from 25.7 per cent in July, and overall inflation was 3.0 per cent in both months. Excluding gasoline, prices rose 2.4 per cent in August, up from 2.2 per cent in July.Explore this claim →

Government of Alberta, Treasury Board and Finance Official record Fact Sheet: 2026-27 first quarter fiscal update and economic statement Published Aug 27, 2026 open.alberta.caRead original source (opens in a new tab)

Section 'Surplus' and the table 'Oil prices and assumptions'

The C$2 billion surplus is the government's own forecast of August 27, 2026, resting on West Texas Intermediate at US$73.50 a barrel. It is not an outcome. Only the two-page fact sheet is held, not the full report. Raw copy: evidence/mideast-oil-shock/primary-raw-oilshock/alberta-2026-27-q1-fact-sheet.pdf.

Retrieved Sep 20, 2026. Original historical capture has not been verified.

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Sep 15, 2026Canadian drivers pay more, and oil-producing governments collect more

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Statistics Canada Official record The Daily: Consumer Price Index, July 2026 Published Aug 17, 2026 www150.statcan.gc.caRead original source (opens in a new tab)

Headline CPI and gasoline paragraphs

Official July 2026 CPI release. The August release (s13) followed on September 14, 2026. The sentence with 'the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz' is in this release and does not say whose blockade. Raw copy: evidence/mideast-oil-shock/primary-raw-oilshock/statcan-cpi-july-2026-08-17.html.

Retrieved Sep 16, 2026. Original historical capture has not been verified.

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Bank of Canada Official record What you pay for at the pump Published Jun 19, 2024 www.bankofcanada.caRead original source (opens in a new tab)

Sections on crude oil, the exchange rate and heavy oil

Plain-language explainer from 2024, used as a reference for how a litre of gasoline is priced. It does not discuss 2026. Raw copy: evidence/mideast-oil-shock/primary-raw-oilshock/boc-what-you-pay-at-the-pump-2024-06.html.

Retrieved Sep 20, 2026. Original historical capture has not been verified.

Where it connects

Sep 15, 2026Canadian drivers pay more, and oil-producing governments collect more

Linked to 1 claim

Evidence forRegular gasoline averaged C$1.87 a litre in Canadian cities in the week ending September 15, 2026, by Natural Resources Canada's weekly average, taxes included. The same average was C$1.40 in the week ending February 24, 2026, the last full week before the war began. It had touched C$1.87 in the week ending July 28 and was C$1.71 in the week ending August 11.Explore this claim →

Canada Energy Regulator Official record Market Snapshot: Why do gasoline prices differ across Canada? Published Sep 13, 2017 www.cer-rec.gc.caRead original source (opens in a new tab)

First paragraph, the four components of the retail price

Reference page from 2017. Used only for the list of components. Its cents-per-litre figures are for July 2016 to June 2017 and are not used. Raw copy: evidence/mideast-oil-shock/primary-raw-oilshock/cer-snapshot-gasoline-prices-differ-2017.html.

Retrieved Sep 20, 2026. Original historical capture has not been verified.

Where it connects

Sep 15, 2026Canadian drivers pay more, and oil-producing governments collect more

Linked to 1 claim

Evidence forRegular gasoline averaged C$1.87 a litre in Canadian cities in the week ending September 15, 2026, by Natural Resources Canada's weekly average, taxes included. The same average was C$1.40 in the week ending February 24, 2026, the last full week before the war began. It had touched C$1.87 in the week ending July 28 and was C$1.71 in the week ending August 11.Explore this claim →