MONTREAL — Canadian National Railway says it plans to spend $2.9 billion this year to improve its efficiency, support long-term growth and strengthen safety. CN’s capital budget for 2016 includes $1.5 billion for track infrastructure. That includes rail replacement, bridge improvements and branch line upgrades. Related CN Rail chief Claude Mongeau returns from sick leave to announce strong earnings, outlookCanada’s ...

TORONTO – The CPP Investment Board says the funds it manages for that Canada Pension Plan delivered a 4.5 per cent return, after costs, within the final 3 months of 2015. As of Dec. 31, which marks no more CPPIB’s 2015-16 fiscal third quarter, the CPP Fund had $282.6 billion of assets — up from $272.9 billion at Sept. 30. ...

The war of words between Torrent Capital, a significant shareholder in Pivot Technology Solutions, and also the company about how better to proceed considering a proposed going private transaction continues. Torrent fired the latest salvo this week C the 3rd it’s made since Pivot announced its share exchange transaction fourteen days back. Torrent said it represents the interests of holders ...

Free-flowing refineries are prompting a “bloodbath” for retail gasoline prices in Edmonton, one analyst says. BY THE NUMBERS– Lowest price of gasoline in Edmonton: 57.9 cents– Average price of gasoline in Edmonton: 61.4 cents– Average cost of gasoline in Alberta: 67.8 cents– Average price of gasoline in British Columbia: 95.3 cents– Average national price: 85.0 cents– Highest price of gasoline ...

CI Investments Inc. has entered a no-contest settlement with the Ontario Securities Commission that will begin to see the fund management firm return $156.1 million to “harmed investors” after self-reporting errors in calculating fund unit values. The regulator said Wednesday it is the biggest quantity of investor compensation to date in a no-contest settlement — a kind of settlement recently adopted by ...

Tesla Motors Inc forecast deliveries of Model S sedans and Model X SUVs that topped analysts’ estimates and said hello expects to show in a profit in 2016, sending its shares 15 percent higher in after-hours trading. The electric car maker has long enjoyed the status of Silicon Valley darling because of its brash innovation in electric cars. Its technological ...

Among the promises made by Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government to revive “trust” in the National Energy Board, there is one which former chairman Gaetan Caron really loves: Keep politics from pipeline reviews. Peter Foster: Trudeau turns the pipeline game into all snakes, no ladders Justin Trudeau has had a dysfunctional pipeline regulatory system making it not simply worse, but a ...

The Canadian government is speaking with the country’s largest pension funds about purchasing vast amounts of dollars price of infrastructure projects to assist stimulate the economy, the Infrastructure Ministry told Reuters on Wednesday. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won an election in October around the back of a promise to run three consecutive annual budget deficits of up to $10 ...