The Canadian Press CALGARY — Genscape says crude-by-rail shipments from Western Canada continued to rise in May after falling in February to a nine-month low. The U.S. company, which monitors western Canadian rail terminals handling about 80 per cent of typical volumes, reports average rail loadings in May were 231,000 […]
National Business
By Ross Marowits The Canadian Press TORONTO — Spring flooding has failed to sink Ontario and Quebec’s cottage real estate markets, according to Royal LePage’s annual recreational property report. Parts of Quebec cottage country were inaccessible for weeks because of road closures and some Ontario properties had to be viewed […]
By Melinda Deslatte The Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — Bye-bye, cauliflower rice. Farewell, veggie sausage. See you later, chicken-free strips. Louisiana lawmakers have agreed to labeling restrictions that will keep veggie products from being called meat, non-rice products from being described as rice and sugar alternatives from being marketed […]
The Canadian PressDan Healing CALGARY–A court ruling in Minnesota that could further delay Enbridge Inc.’s Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project spells more bad news for Canadian oilfield workers, says the CEO of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada. Investor confidence in Western Canada’s oil industry is at a low […]
By Dan Healing The Canadian Press CALGARY — A court ruling in Minnesota that could further delay Enbridge Inc.’s Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project spells more bad news for Canadian oilfield workers, says the CEO of the Petroleum Services Association of Canada. Investor confidence in Western Canada’s oil industry […]
By Dee-Ann Durbin The Associated Press Anheuser-Busch is making good on its pledge to be a more renewable brewer. The company is partnering with San Francisco-based solar developer Recurrent Energy, which will build and maintain a 2,000-acre solar farm in Pecos County, Texas. Once it’s completed in 2021, Anheuser-Busch will […]
By Armina Ligaya The Canadian Press TORONTO — The Canadian market for next-generation cannabis products is worth an estimated $2.7 billion annually, with edibles contributing more than half, according to a new report from Deloitte. This spending once the final edible pot regulations roll out in the coming months is […]
The Associated Press MILWAUKEE — A Wisconsin judge has ordered Anheuser-Busch to stop suggesting in advertising that MillerCoors’ light beers contain corn syrup, wading into a fight between two beer giants that are losing market share to small independent brewers. U.S. District Judge William Conley for the Western District of […]
By Dan Healing The Canadian Press CALGARY — The southern Alberta city of Medicine Hat is pulling the plug on a $13-million concentrated solar power facility after operating it for about five years. The project’s goal was to test whether the technology was a feasible way to employ the sun’s […]
The Associated PressJeff Baenen MINNEAPOLIS–The federal Bureau of Land Management yesterday renewed mineral rights leases for a proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota, a project that environmentalists fear would spoil the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Department of Interior Assistant Secretary for Land and Mineral Management Joe Balash […]
The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO–A California cafe is brewing up what it calls the world’s most expensive coffee–at $75 a cup. Klatch Coffee Roasters is serving the exclusive brew, the Elida Natural Geisha 803, at its branches in Southern California and San Francisco. The 803 in the coffee’s name refers […]
By Jeff Baenen The Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — The federal Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday renewed mineral rights leases for a proposed Twin Metals copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota, a project that environmentalists fear would spoil the pristine Boundary Waters Canoe Area. Department of Interior Assistant Secretary for Land […]
