Category Archives: Canada
TransCanada cites hurricane in extending deadline for Keystone commitments
CALGARY - TransCanada Corporation (TSX:TRP) is giving customers an extra month to sign up for space on its Keystone pipeline system due to flooding from hurricane Harvey in Houston and other parts of ...
Sep 06, 2017
First witnesses Friday at murder trial of Montreal man charged in death of store clerk
MONTREAL - The first witnesses at the murder trial of a man charged with killing a clerk in a Montreal supermarket will testify Friday. Randy Tshilumba, 21, faces a first-degree murder charge in the s...
Sep 06, 2017
Softwood dispute will only push cost of rebuilding Houston higher: economist
OTTAWA - A growing demand for building materials - as Houston looks to reconstruct in the wake of hurricane Harvey - should put pressure on the White House to solve the latest softwood lumber dispute ...
Sep 06, 2017
Alberta politician Derek Fildebrandt denies hit and run on neighbour's van
EDMONTON - An Alberta legislature member accused of hit and run with his pickup truck says he didn’t do it. Derek Fildebrandt testified in court Wednesday that if he had backed into his neighbou...
Sep 06, 2017
Quotes at the centre of an Ontario Liberal byelection scandal
SUDBURY, Ont. - A trial is set to begin Thursday for two Ontario Liberals on Election Act bribery charges. The pair, including a former top staffer of Premier Kathleen Wynne, is accused of offering a ...
Sep 06, 2017
Oilsands crude pellets touted as cure for industry's bitumen transport ills
CALGARY - A new technology that transforms heavy crude oil into pill-sized pellets could cure the oilsands industry’s transportation headaches, according to University of Calgary professor Ian G...
Sep 06, 2017
'Sustained' rain needed to end devastating B.C. wildfire season: officials
INVERMERE, B.C. - Hundreds of homes have burned and nearly half a billion dollars has been spent, but officials say there’s no end in sight for British Columbia’s devastating wildfire seas...
Sep 06, 2017
Timeline of key dates in Liberal Sudbury byelection scandal
SUDBURY, Ont. - A trial is set to begin Thursday for two Ontario Liberals on Election Act bribery charges. Pat Sorbara, a former Ontario Liberal Party CEO, and Gerry Lougheed, a Sudbury Liberal fundra...
Sep 06, 2017
Nurses raise spectre of disruptions over N.S. bill: 'They'd have to close units'
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s nurses union is raising the spectre of hospital units being shut because of discontent over the province’s decision to impose a labour bill on 75,000 public sector ...
Sep 06, 2017
First Nation leaders to press Desjardins to stop funding oilsands pipelines
CALGARY - First Nation leaders opposed to the oilsands say they are meeting with senior executives at Desjardins Group Thursday to try and convince the credit union to make its moratorium on new pipel...
Sep 06, 2017
