News
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Trudeau urged to scramble for African business and trade opportunities
Canadian products still account for less than 1% of what Africa imports.
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Names in the mix: potential Conservative leadership contenders
The deadline to register as a candidate and meet the first round of requirements is Feb. 27.
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$3.5M in federal funding for green mining in Sudbury
Recipients are a manufacturer of electric drive systems and an organization developing heat exchange technology.
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Feds invest $15M in western rail to improve transport capacity
Will improve shipping efficiency from the Alberta Industrial Heartland.
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Climate change could open new land to farming, but caution needed: study
Big winners would be Canada and Russia, more than four million square kilometres of boreal forest would become arable land.
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Xebec secures $27M in orders from US dairy farmers
Will supply turnkey biogas upgrading plants and small-scale containerized Biostream systems to produce renewable natural gas.
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Nova Scotia forest industry airs concerns over mill closure during AGM
Frustration voiced over what is seen to be a lack of direction following the loss of one of the industry’s major players.
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Rittal introduces ‘Advancing Women in Tech’ scholarship
Two female undergraduates interested in careers in the electrical industry will get $1,750 each.
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$3M in federal funding to cut plastic food, construction waste
Three companies winners of the government’s plastics innovation challenge, part of a plan to ban many single-use plastics by 2021.
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Competition Bureau investigating agricultural suppliers over sales activity
Looking at whether the companies restricted or refused to sell product to retailer Farmer Business Network Canada.
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Cenovus ramps crude by rail to 120,000 bpd, no provincial contracts
Company used a provincial program that relaxed quota constraints on production if it was shipped out on new rail capacity.
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Special mediator appointed in Regina Co-op refinery labour dispute
Vince Ready, who has worked in labour relations for more than five decades, will try to break the deadlock between the company and Unifor.
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US whiskey exports decline as trade dispute with EU persists
American distillers have been caught in the middle of a trans-Atlantic trade dispute since mid-2018.
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BC’s cleantech sector continues to grow: KPMG
KPMG report finds it’s increasingly export-oriented, with 87% of revenues forecast to be generated outside of the province.
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Railways under stress as anti pipeline blockades continue
CN Railway warns it will have to close “significant” parts of its network unless blockades on its rail lines are removed.
