Mining & Resources
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Ottawa to reduce small business tax rate to 9 per cent
The addition of a tax cut to the federal Liberal government’s small business tax reform plan appears to be the political equivalent of a spoonful of sugar to quell an angry backlash to proposed tax reform
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Lafarge hit with fine after worker shocked at Bath, Ont. cement plant
A contract worker was taken to hospital after being shocked when cleaning electrostatic precipitators at the facility
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Trump’s ‘break it now, fix it later’ tactic creating chaos at NAFTA talks
Officials from other countries say the “sheepish” body language of U.S. negotiators, who have tabled demands beyond the realm of what’s palatable to the other parties, speaks volumes as to how they perceive Trump’s chaos-inducing tactics
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Canada, U.K. partner to reduce global coal-fired power proliferation
The International Energy Agency says the world’s reliance on coal has to start diminishing by 2020 if there is any hope of meeting the Paris climate change accord goals
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Former DuPont employee charged with allegedly selling secrets to Chinese investors
A man who worked for DuPont Co. spin-off Chemours Co. is accused of allegedly selling information about information about sodium cyanide, a chemical used in mining
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U.S. drops bombshell ‘sunset clause’ in NAFTA talks, and vows more
America’s so-called NAFTA partners are baffled by the new demands and are trying to figure if this hardline approach signals a U.S desire to poison the talks, let them collapse and simply do away with NAFTA
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Trudeau acknowledges NAFTA gloom, says he’s ready for anything
The Prime Minister admitted that talks have been challenging while Mexico’s foreign relations secretary said his country would not sign a bad deal, adding that leaving the treaty “would not be the end of the world”
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Former PM Stephen Harper breaks silence on NAFTA, and it’s not pretty
The former Conservative leader, who’s an ardent free trader, said powerful anti-trade forces that extend beyond Trump’s presidency are at play in American society and aren’t going away any time soon
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Japan’s Kobe Steel under fire for fudging data on metals
In the latest ethics scandal to hit a major Japanese company, Kobe said some of its inspection data on steel, aluminum and other metals was manipulated
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Scientists say cost of capturing CO2 declining, but still chief obstacle
Some energy experts say “clean coal” technology can now trap up to 90 per cent of carbon emissions from smokestacks. They are looking for tax incentives to bring prices down and get the technology across the finish line