OTTAWA – The threat increasing household debt presents to Canada’s economy – and also the country’s economic climate, particularly – is continuing to grow, and also at an ever-worrying pace. The rising risks to heavily-indebted borrowers, those who have cheated ultra-low rates of interest following a 2008-09 recession, would be an economic collapse and a jump in unemployment, along with ...

A minority shareholder has become claiming that Corus Entertainment Inc. is paying up to $858 million more than it ought to to acquire related company Shaw Media Inc. and it has proposed some new terms that it says it would be willing to accept.  Corus minority shareholder urges regulators to examine ‘serious’ disclosure concerns in Shaw Media deal Two market regulators have been urged to ...

CALGARY C Collapsing energy prices along with a growing global surplus of a liquefied natural gas have dealt another blow to British Columbia’s intends to develop an LNG industry. AltaGas Ltd. said Thursday it’s shelving its Douglas Channel LNG plant, widely one among the B.C. frontrunners, saying it had been unable to find customers for the super-cooled natural gas. “The Douglas ...

In what is among the largest equity financing deals in recent years, Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. has signed a bought cope with a group of underwriters to sell 49.14 million shares at $40.70 apiece. Enbridge, whose shares are listed on both the TSX and also the NYSE, will raise gross proceeds of $2 billion from the transaction, that is likely to ...

Touted by economists as a wondrous market mechanism that delivers Canada from the evils of climate change, carbon prices are emerging out of the political swamps like a regulatory nightmare. It is also shaping up as the Great Canadian Carbon Tax Grab. In coming of a first ministers’ meeting next week with Prime Minister Trudeau in Vancouver to begin setting ...

Rising competition between North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) members to export crude oil, poses challenges for Canada, according to a brand new report through the International Energy Agency. “This trend is increasingly supported also because the Keystone XL expansion project did not receive approval through the U.S. Administration President Obama in November 2015,” said the IEA in the set ...

TORONTO – Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa announced Thursday that the province’s budget deficit has shrunk a lot more than expected and that the Liberals take presctiption pace to return to a balanced budget by 2017-18, even as net debt is set to increase for the reason that timeframe. Highlights from the 2016 Ontario budget By Keith LeslieFinance Minister Charles ...

A consortium led by Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and Borealis Infrastructure won antique dealer war to purchase London City Airport for about 2 billion pounds (US$2.8 billion), based on people acquainted with the problem. The group beat an adversary bid from China’s HNA Group to get the facility from Global Infrastructure Partners, the person said, asking not to be ...