In the hot seat: Algoma Steel faces dual pressures of electric arc furnace rollout while fighting Trump tariff turmoil

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Open this photo in gallery: The Algoma Steel plant on March 25. As Algoma’s fortunes wax and wane, so too do the prospects of the border city of Sault Ste Marie, where the steel company’s one and only plant is located.Fred Lum/The Globe and Mail More than 30 years after serving in the U.S. military, Algoma Steel Group Inc. ASTL-T chief executive officer Michael Garcia is once again in the line of fire. But instead of facing a foreign military foe as he did in the 1990/1991 Gulf War, the threat is economic, and the aggressor is his own countryman....