Risk & Compliance
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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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Manitoba Premier Pallister sees wiggle room in carbon tax fight with feds
Brian Pallister cited a legal opinion suggesting he would likely lose a a direct court challenge against Ottawa’s plan, but there may be a work around
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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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Safely transporting your lithium-ion cells, battery and battery assembly products
New whitepaper by CSA Group outlines requirements to mitigate risk
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‘This hypocrisy is appalling’ Bombardier slammed with additional 80% duty
Foreign Affairs minister Chrystia Freeland blasted the U.S. for adding 79.82 per cent to the 219.63 per cent in preliminary countervailing tariffs against Bombardier. She says “Boeing is manipulating the U.S. trade remedy system”
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TransCanada blames ‘substantial uncertainty’ in cancelling $15.7B Energy East pipeline
TransCanada cites an NEB decision to consider greenhouse gas emissions from the production and processing of the oil it transports in the pipeline, but opponents of the project said the company realized it wasn’t needed
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Mystery chemical leaks from Toronto recycling plant
Officials say several people experienced respiratory difficulties but firefighters have so far been unable to identify and find the substance
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Shopify shares battered after activist short-seller blasts it as ‘get-rich-quick scheme’
Following a report from influential stock watcher Citron Research, Shopify shares took a nosedive and American law firm Girard Gibbs LLP. began a class action lawsuit investigation on behalf of shareholders
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Sherritt hit with $1M fine for toxic wastewater discharges
The severity of the fine reflects the size of the offence as half a million litres of poorly treated effluent was estimated to have escaped into the environment, said an Environment Canada regional director
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Niagara Falls Water Board nailed for second black water discharge
New York State’s Department of Environmental Conservation called the incident “wholly unacceptable” and said the water board must take immediate corrective action