Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Alberta now to take stock of the devastation wrought through the collapse in oil prices. Trudeau’s rebranding of Canada offers sunshine to Davos, but it’s cold comfort for battered oilpatch Like it or otherwise, he will also get an earful within the spate of anti-energy moves produced by his government that can make a ...

TORONTO  – Canada’s biggest pension funds say they are walking away from increasingly more global infrastructure deals, citing concerns that intense competition for assets has driven valuations too much. Canadian pensions facing down fierce competition to pursue global growth strategy Hong Kong-based executives in the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board first introduced themselves to officials at Postal Savings Bank of ...

Chesapeake Energy Corp. said it doesn’t have plans to seek bankruptcy protection, dismissing a report that destroyed half the U.S. gas driller’s value. Kirkland & Ellis LLP has served as one of Chesapeake’s counsel since 2010 and continues to advise the company because it seeks to further strengthen its balance sheet following its recent debt exchange, Chesapeake said in a ...

OTTAWA – Rates of interest shouldn’t be the only real tool to promote financial stability, said the financial institution of Canada’s Timothy Lane, amid worries of highly indebted consumers and frothy housing markets in Toronto and Vancouver. Lane, deputy governor from the Bank of Canada, designed a speech in Montreal Monday concentrating on monetary policy’s effects on financial stability. The ...

CALGARY – Suncor Energy has announced that just about 73 per cent of Canadian Oil Sands shares and accompanying rights have been tendered to Suncor’s offer. Suncor officials asserted consequently, the organization will be able to make sure that a subsequent acquisition transaction will be completed and Suncor (TSX:SU) will acquire the remainder of the outstanding COS shares. In mid-January, ...

Widespread international concerns rose when Beijing announced a week ago that it is economy grew by 6.9 per cent in 2015, just neglecting to meet the official target of seven per cent for that year. The gloomy news out of China continues using its weakening stock exchange, its falling trade figures, its depreciating currency and its softening interest in a ...

REDMOND, Wash. – Going for a page from Jules Verne, researchers at Microsoft believe the future of data centres might be underneath the sea. Microsoft has tested a prototype of the self-contained data centre that can operate hundreds of feet underneath the top of the ocean, eliminating among the technology industry’s priciest problems: the air conditioning bill. Today’s data centres, ...

Robert Ingram of Moore Ingram Johnson & Steeles sought a brand new avenue of persuasion during a recent hearing before the Georgia Court of Appeals. Wearing Donald duck ears, he told the panel that not even Disney World couldn’t endure the “fantasy arguments” produced by opposing counsel. According to Law.com, Ingram told the court that he had spent the prior week at ...