Resources & Agriculture

Canadian Oil Sands urges shareholders to reject Suncor’s US$3.3b hostile bid

Canadian Oil Sands (TSX:COS) urged shareholders Monday (October 19) to reject Suncor Energy’s (TSX, NYSE:SU) $3.3 billion (Cdn $4.3bn) hostile takeover, which it qualified as “undervalued, opportunistic and exploitive.”

Oct 19, 2015 7:56 AM Read more >

Innovative sake maker branches into table-rice sales

Entrepreneur wins battle for rice wineries to be eligible for same perks as grape wineries but runs into new obstacles

Oct 16, 2015 2:20 PM Read more >

US$150 billion mining investment needed to avoid looming supply shortages: Wood Mackenzie

The global mining industry could be paving the way for a major supply shortage as miners are...

Oct 16, 2015 9:58 AM Read more >

Catalyst Paper hit with $1.3m in countervailing duties

Around the same time that Catalyst Paper Corp. was investing in the U.S. with the acquisition of...

Oct 16, 2015 8:08 AM Read more >

Squamish First Nation greenlights Woodfibre LNG project

The Squamish First Nation has given the green light to the $1.7 billion Woodfibre LNG project in the form of...

Oct 14, 2015 2:46 PM Read more >

Price of oil to stay low until end of 2016: expert

Don’t expect the price of oil to rebound anytime soon, an energy expert told...

Oct 14, 2015 10:56 AM Read more >

Junior miners consider jumping to jade from gold

B.C. jade has become such a hot commodity it has spawned its own reality TV series

Oct 13, 2015 12:00 AM Read more >

$Gas in, gas out: the waterless fracking alternative$

Gas in, gas out: the waterless fracking alternative

Drought raises appeal of using natural gas instead of water to fracture rock in wells

Oct 13, 2015 12:00 AM Read more >

One dead, several injured after violence breaks out at B2Gold’s Nicaragua mine

A police officer is dead and several people were injured after violence broke out at...

Oct 9, 2015 11:09 AM Read more >

Teck stock takes 17% bounce in two days

Major mining stocks have taken a healthy bounce over the last couple ofdays, prompting some analysts to...

Oct 8, 2015 10:50 AM Read more >