The owner of the Jeffrey mine in Asbestos says he has finally found a partner to invest in his project to expand the mine underground. The development could mean Canada will be involved in the controversial business of exporting the controversial fibre to developing countries for the next 20 years.
An Alberta judge has accepted a $3.2-million creative sentence for Syncrude Canada Ltd. on charges stemming from the deaths of more than 1,600 ducks on one of its oilsands waste ponds two years ago.
The Toronto Stock Exchange appeared to be on track to post its first weekly decline in six weeks on Friday, until a late-day rally gave it enough of a boost to close slightly better than flat for its sixth-straight weekly gain.
Phew. For a while there, it looked as if Canadian consumers
were doing all too good a job of responding to the ominous warnings
from Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney that they had run up too
darned much debt.