What the oilpatch thinks about the financial aid offered by Ottawa
Not long after oil prices started their plunge in March, the calls for financial aid for Canada's oilpatch began — and continued as the sector shed $8…
COVID-19 may be the catalyst — not the cause — of a painful but useful economic transformation: Don Pittis
COVID-19, As people are thrown out of work, as businesses fail and as the oil and housing sectors weaken, there is a branch of economics that insists…
OPINION | Oil is not dead but Kenney will need Trudeau’s help to keep it on life support
"Oil is dead," says Elizabeth May.No, oil is not dead. But it does have an expiry date. Even Stephen Harper acknowledged that when, as prime minister in…
Fear on tap as COVID-19 chokes off small brewery sales
Canadians have been lining up outside liquor stores and stocking up on alcohol to make staying at home during the coronavirus pandemic more palatable, but craft beer…
Competition bureau joins battle against false COVID-19 claims, issuing warnings
Canada's advertising watchdog continues to spot misleading and false marketing targeting people worried about the COVID-19 pandemic.Text message and email scams, door-to-door visits from fake health officials,…
Bank of Canada makes emergency interest rate cut
The Bank of Canada has made an unexpected rate cut, cutting the central bank's benchmark interest rate by 50 basis points to 0.75 per cent.The central bank…
Coronavirus: What’s happening in Canada and around the world March 14
Some of the latest developments: N.L. and P.E.I. announced their first cases on Saturday. Saskatchewan confirmed its first two presumptive cases. B.C. detected nine new cases, bringing…
Canadian businesses rush to plug a gap in electric-vehicle charging: Don Pittis
The relatively small number of electric vehicles you see on the road today masks what many experts say is a disruptive revolution coming to the business of…
Across the North, Indigenous communities are redefining conservation
In a packed gym in Colville Lake, N.W.T., Chief Wilbert Kochon leans into a microphone.Across a roughly-arranged square of folding tables, officials from the territory's department of…
Supreme Court to hear B.C. case attempting to halt Trans Mountain pipeline expansion
Supreme Court to hear B.C. case attempting to halt Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, Canada's high court will hear arguments Thursday on whether British Columbia can stop Alberta…
cleaning up old oil wells says Alberta government
cleaning up old oil wells says Alberta government, A group tasked with cleaning up thousands of abandoned energy facilities in Alberta says the province's rules for ensuring…