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OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the financial institution of Canada is looking for a woman to become featured on the new bank note from 2018. Trudeau and Finance Minister Bill Morneau are marking International Women’s Day by announcing the search for a brand new face for the currency. The bank is asking the general public to appoint women ...

Seafloor mining is one of those things that a lot of investors won’t have confidence in until it is actually proven to work. But there is an increasing acknowledgement that could well happen soon. As Nautilus Minerals Inc., the pioneer of this business, inches closer and closer to an organized start of operations in 2018, chief executive Mike Johnston said ...

After a six-week rally that saw crude push to the US$40 market, prices took a sharp turn Tuesday on rising U.S. inventories that implies markets have not yet designed a full recovery. “It’s not really an upright line up, there is going to be lots of resets before we move structurally higher at the tail end of the year,” said ...

CALGARY C Vowing to not sit back and “do nothing” because the province struggles via a prolonged recession, the Alberta government is preparing to intervene more directly in the downstream end of the energy industry and the petrochemical industry. Ultimatum to Trudeau: Petronas threatens to abandon $36B LNG project over climate rules Petronas is frustrated that Trudeau’s climate-change priorities are ...

New Millennium Iron Corp. is involved in one of the messiest proxy fights the junior mining sector has witnessed in a while. A dissident group wants the organization to “dramatically” cut expenses to preserve capital, including compensation. It’s looking to seize control over the board. If the two sides fail to reach funds, chief executive Robert Patzelt said he is ...

Canadian securities regulators are going to demonstrate commendable restraint in the exercise of the “public interest” jurisdiction to pre-empt the work of unconflicted boards of directors responding to unsolicited takeovers. The brand new proposal would allow boards facing hostile bids as much as 105 days before regulators intervene with measures that may curtail a board’s discretion, namely cease-trading “poison pill” ...

MONTREAL – The Montreal Economic Institute, a think-tank often seen as promoting free-market views that have historically languished around the fringe inside a province with a half-century of big governments and robust unions, is creating a push for the mainstream. On Wednesday, the organization announced that former Conservative finance minister Joe Oliver is joining its ranks like a “Distinguished Senior ...

The Bank of Canada said Wednesday that some of the pressures facing the country’s economy have eased this season as it left its benchmark interest rate unchanged Wednesday. Bank of Canada holds key rate of interest because it waits on Ottawa’s fiscal boost The central bank takes a wait-and-see approach to the brand new federal government’s plans for multi-billion-dollar spending. ...