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Mini-nuclear power plants at least 10 years out: Canadian Nuclear Association
“There will always be a need for diesel, but you can minimize it and this modular reactor technology becomes attractive to develop in the north when the alternative is transporting diesel in perpetuity.”
Liberal MP raises ethics concerns after flying private jet for personal medical treatment
Liberal MP Dominic LeBlanc’s use of JD Irving’s private jet to make a doctor’s appointment in Montreal last month is reviving the New Brunswick politician’s past brushes with ethics rules.
Liberals fail to send government representatives to defend Canada’s Arctic claims
In the real world, nobody cares about Canada’s claims to our Arctic archipelago, except for us.
Taxpayers on the hook for Trudeau government’s $372.5 million Bombardier disaster
Bombardier’s relationship with the free market paid negative dividends to Canadian taxpayers and workers again last week, as the company announced a first round of 550 layoffs at its Thunder Bay, Ontario train assembly plant for later this fall.
Massive Desjardins breach will happen again due to lax regulations, zero punitive measures: cyber expert
The laws in Canada around personal data protection lack the bite says a cyber security expert after Desjardins Group went…
“Travesty” at Chateau Laurier moves forward after Ottawa city council quashes permit revocation
Ignoring thousands of residents who expressed dismay with a proposed addition to the iconic Chateau Laurier hotel, Ottawa city council…
Bank of Canada holds interest rate steady amidst trade uncertainties
Citing ongoing trade disputes and data indicating Canada could experience “potential growth” in the second quarter, Bank of Canada maintained its overnight rate at 1.75 percent.
SNC-Lavalin corruption trial could prove more scandalous than Wilson-Raybould affair
His top advisor Gerald Butts resigned over the imbroglio and Trudeau excommunicated a pair of cabinet ministers from the party for disloyalty, including Wilson-Raybould but the evidence to come at SNC-Lavalin’s trial could be far more explosive.
“Visual vandalism” at iconic Chateau Laurier city’s responsibility: federal ministers
The City of Ottawa is on its own with Larco Investment’s architectural ‘vandalism’, say two federal ministers whose portfolios give them sway over a proposed, box store-like addition to the iconic Chateau Laurier Hotel that would mar national capital vistas.
Trump right again: telephone is ‘American achievement’
So in the final analysis, Trump is more or less correct: America created the free market environment for amazing technological breakthroughs like the telephone, not just to be realized, but scaled up in a manner that would benefit the masses.
Canada caught between giants, incommunicado tables turn
EDITOR’S NOTE – Clarification: Trudeau spoke briefly with Trump on June 29, 2018 to express condolences for victims of the…
Unattended cyber-garden is Canada’s weakness: former RIM CEO
After China’s Air Force buzzed our navy in the South China Sea before a forgettable G20 in Japan for Prime…
First Nations ambitious for ownership of $7.5 billion TMX expansion
First Nations along the Trans Mountain corridor say they want to own the existing pipeline, build its $7.5 billion expansion and that Ottawa is duty bound to deal with them first over competing equity interests.
Oil and gas sector keeps economic growth positive through April
Combined, mining, quarrying and oil and gas extraction was up 4.5 percent in April, primarily due to a 5.5% rise in oil and gas extraction; strongest since Fort McMurray’s recovery from the 2016 wildfires that hindered production.
Métis landholders say they’ve been shut out of Trudeau’s TMX consultations
Eight Alberta Métis communities, many surrounded by and involved with oil sands production, are sounding the environmental alarm and demanding nation-to-nation treatment before the Trans Mountain expansion project moves ahead.