Complaints against banks are on the rise, according to the financial services industry’s ombudsman. Overall complaint volumes remained stable, but banking-related complaints increased, based on the Ombudsman for Banking Services and Investments (OBSI), which released its annual report for 2015 on Wednesday. The Ombudsman opened 273 banking cases last year, up 21 per cent in the year before. The increase ...
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Canada, U.S. agree to cut methane emissions from oil and gas industry by almost half by 2025
President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced steps to limit methane emissions from existing oil and gas wells, a move meant to underscore their resolve for combat climate change. Read the U.S.-Canada Joint Statement on Climate, Energy, and Arctic Leadership Canada and also the U.S. are agreeing to reduce methane emissions from gas and oil by as much ...
Read More »Imperial Oil to sell remaining 497 Esso stations to five fuel distributors for $2.8 billion
CALGARY C Imperial Oil Ltd. is getting from the retail gasoline business in a $2.8-billion deal announced Tuesday to divest all of its company-owned Esso stations. The Calgary-based gas and oil company announced it was selling its remaining 497 Esso stations across Canada to numerous retail-focused gasoline distributors Tuesday. Imperial has been steadily selling-off its fuel stations of which there ...
Read More »Bank of Canada’s view on economy will be closely watched today
OTTAWA – The Bank of Canada is anticipated to create its latest announcement on interest rates later today. And nevertheless there is little expectation of a switch to its overnight rate target, economists will be looking for any clues regarding the way the central bank views the economy. The Bank of Canada’s key interest rate stands at 0.5 percent after ...
Read More »Magna International Inc to open new seat-making facility in China to supply Zhejiang Geely’s Volvo
MONTREAL C Canadian auto parts maker Magna International Inc said on Wednesday it’ll open a brand new seat-making facility in China to provide Zhejiang Geely Holding Group Co’s Volvo car group. The 5,200-square-meter facility in Taizhou, China, will be completed by mid-2016, Magna said inside a news release published throughout a Toronto event for investors and analysts. It will produce ...
Read More »PDAC 2016: NexGen’s star rising as uranium discovery continues to grow
TORONTO ? In the halls of the year’s Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) mining conference in Toronto, Leigh Curyer was treated like a star. “It would be a large amount of fun, but we’ve still got a much more try to do and much more items to achieve,” Curyer, the chief executive of NexGen Energy Ltd., said within ...
Read More »Fossil fuels are ’probably dead,’ says Canadian Pacific Railway CEO Hunter Harrison
MONTREAL – People need to get their heads round the idea that non-renewable fuels are “probably dead,” the CEO of Canadian Pacific Railway said Wednesday. “I’m not maybe as green when i should be but I occur to think the weather is changing (and) they’re not going to fool me anymore,” Hunter Harrison told a J.P. Morgan transportation conference in ...
Read More »Goldcorp management changes support new strategy
David Garofalo, the brand new chief executive of Goldcorp Inc., made his first big mark on Wednesday night because the company announced a series of management changes. The moves were not an unexpected. Garofalo continues to be talking about decentralizing head office control at Goldcorp and giving the mine managers more accountability. “This allows the organization to maneuver forward with ...
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