Railroads are usually associated with Canada’s “National Dream”, but they can also serve as a good metaphor for a national debt nightmare. Imagine this: you’re tied down to a railroad track, and not far away you […]
Oil rose in November, normally a weak month. When oil has risen in the month of November in the past, it has risen in 10 of 13 cases in the month of December. Apparently, when […]
Canada still has only one liquefied natural gas export project under construction, despite more than two dozen separate developments being pitched over the past decade. But the former executive director of the International Energy Agency believes Canada […]
Cheap prices for coal are helping to generate unexpected profits at NB Power — despite carbon pricing — even though the utility’s dependence on the fuel still promises significant financial problems in the years ahead. In separate submissions in […]
Abu Dhabi could invest up to US$1.5 billion in the initial public offering of Saudi Aramco, Bloomberg reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Saudi Arabia now relies on nearby friends to bring home a […]
Oil prices inched higher on Tuesday morning as OPEC-driven optimism returned to markets with the cartel announcing the date of its December meeting Chart of the Week EIA increases U.S. crude oil production forecast for […]
The union representing Canadian National Railway employees has released what it says is a recording between a supervisor and a train conductor who was being asked to move a train even though he’s exhausted. The […]
Brian Tobin is the Toronto-based vice-chair, BMO Financial Group, and the former premier of Newfoundland and Labrador. Aaron Engen is the Calgary-based vice-chair, investment and corporate banking, BMO Capital Markets As far back as 1885 […]
The B.C. government has committed to being “net-zero ready” by 2032 and have all new cars sold across B.C. be zero-emission vehicles by 2040. Its incentives for new EV purchases have been so successful, it […]
A just transition to new energy sources is possible and Alberta can be a leader, a report from the non-partisan Parkland Institute at the University of Alberta said Wednesday. Titled Alberta’s Coal Phase-Out: A Just […]
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