EDMONTON – Canada will require more than two years to regulate fully towards the stop by oil prices, a senior Bank of Canada official said on Wednesday, signaling no quick end to a shock which has roiled the economy. The oil price crash is over – let the recovery of Alberta’s hard-hit economy begin The crash has ended. The rebuilding ...
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Brussels attack hasn’t soured Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on infrastructure investments: CEO
The recent terrorist attack involving a bombing at the Brussels Airport hasn’t altered the Ontario Teachers’ Type of pension appetite for infrastructure investments, the plan’s chief executive said Wednesday. Teachers’ owns a 39 per cent stake within the airport in Belgium, which was hit along with a busy Brussels metro station within an attack this month that left a lot ...
Read More »Valeant Pharmaceuticals directors, CEO ordered to cease trading shares by Quebec securities regulator
Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc’s directors and key officers have received a cease-trade order through the securities regulator in the Canadian province of Quebec, around the company’s request, Valeant said on Thursday. In another statement, the Autorit Des Marches Financiers (AMF) said an order against trading shares becomes effective Thursday and it is in place for 15 days. Contained in the ...
Read More »Air Canada granted labour flexibility under new legislation that was promised after CSeries purchase
The authorities is granting Air Canada more flexibility over its maintenance work, proposing changes to the three-decades-old laws that govern the airline after it agreed to purchase Bombardier Inc.’s CSeries jets. The proposed amendments towards the 1988 Air Canada Public Participation Act, introduced Thursday by Transport Minister Marc Garneau, fulfill a promise made recently once the airline announced its intend ...
Read More »Billionaire investor Murray Edwards leaves oilpatch, decamps from Calgary to London
Murray Edwards, the billionaire investor and elder statesman of Canada’s hard-hit oilpatch, has left his Calgary home and relocated to London. Edwards’ move, that has been the source of speculation in Canada’s energy hub for weeks, was confirmed in a regulatory filing by Magellan Aerospace Corp., a Mississauga, Ontario-based aircraft manufacturer controlled by Edwards. The 56-year-old’s residence is listed as ...
Read More »If the GDP misses forecasts, don’t blame the economists, new study says, blame Ottawa
OTTAWA – If you had to create a bet how Canada’s economy was going to fare later on, you’d be better off putting your money on private-sector economists’ predictions than the forecasts from the authorities. It seems non-governmental forecasts for nominal growth going back a lot more than 20 years – and used as a guide for Ottawa’s budget planning – have ...
Read More »Barrick Gold Corp to face U.S. class-action lawsuit over Pascua-Lama mine project
A federal judge on Wednesday granted class certification for a U.S. class-action lawsuit filed against Barrick Gold Corp claiming Barrick misstated facts of their now halted Pascua-Lama gold-mine project on the border of Argentina and Chile. The class certification means the world’s largest gold producer will have to face the U.S. lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Shira Scheindlin in Manhattan said ...
Read More »Madalena Energy seeks new leader to drive its interests in Argentina
There might not be an association just a few weeks after Madalena Energy announced a “strategic” acquisition along with a $27 million equity financing C two transactions that were cancelled – the organization has a new interim chief executive. On Thursday the company, which earlier this month announced instructions of intent to get one more 10 percentage point stake within ...
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