If you thought gas prices were high, have you checked out diesel?
There is little relief from pain at the pumps these days, especially as the price of diesel has nearly doubled in the last year. Diesel is now averaging $2.29 per …
How a software company is microwaving Alberta’s oilsands
As oilsands companies work to meet their climate targets and face an incoming limit on total emissions from the federal government, there has never been as much focus on how …
Canada’s competition commissioner to oppose $26B Rogers-Shaw merger, say companies
Canada’s commissioner of competition intends to oppose Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposed $26-billion merger with Shaw Communications Inc., the companies said in a statement released early Saturday. The telecom giants said …
Gas prices hit record highs across the country
Canadians in most parts of the country are waking up to higher gas prices today, with prices either above $2 a litre or creeping close to that benchmark. According to Gas Wizard, …
Oilsands companies have an emissions problem and a plan to fix it — but who’s listening?
Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This story is part of a CBC News initiative entitled “Our Changing Planet” to show and explain the effects of climate change. …
Tax returns stuck in limbo for 50,000 teachers who applied for a school-supply tax credit
Elementary and junior high school teacher Kajsa Hansen said she was counting on her expected $12,467 tax refund to pay upcoming bills, such as a new battery for her motorized …
Oil and gas will be around a lot longer than some think, despite climate change goals: RBC
Global ambitions to tackle climate change are being confronted by rising concerns about energy security, according to a new report by RBC, which is why oil and natural gas are …
Canada’s inflation rate jumps to new 31-year high of 6.7%
Canada’s inflation rate rose to 6.7 per cent in March, far more than economists were expecting and a full percentage point higher than February’s already 30-year high. Statistics Canada reported …
Bank of Canada hikes benchmark interest rate to 1%
The Bank of Canada hiked its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point to one per cent on Wednesday in its latest move to rein in high inflation. The bank’s …
With a windfall from Ottawa comes great climate expectations for the oilpatch
For more than a decade, the oilpatch has pitched a particular solution to its problem of being the largest source of carbon emissions in the country — to bury them. …