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Why Trump Is Desperate To Secure This Rare Metal
Why Trump Is Desperate To Secure This Rare Metal While the United States is slowly working towards ending the lockdown and restarting the economy, the federal government is quietly fighting a second war with China over critical metals. One of those critical metals in particular is the extremely rare key to global technological dominance because […]
U.S. Oil, Gas Rigs Fall Below 400 For The First Time Since 1940
U.S. Oil, Gas Rigs Fall Below 400 For The First Time Since 1940 Baker Hughes reported on Friday that the number of oil and gas rigs in the US fell again this week by 34, falling to 374, with the total oil and gas rigs sitting at 614 fewer than this time last year as […]
Ignoring US Alarms, Alberta Meat Packers Spawned Canada’s Biggest Outbreak
Ignoring US Alarms, Alberta Meat Packers Spawned Canada’s Biggest Outbreak As the virus gripped US plants, the union pleaded for a shutdown. They were rebuffed. Canada’s largest outbreak of COVID-19 swept through two meat-packing plants in southern Alberta two weeks after the provincial government ignored union requests to temporarily close both of the plants. And […]
For Oil and Its Dependents, It’s Code Blue
For Oil and Its Dependents, It’s Code Blue The great price collapse of 2020 will topple companies and transform states. If oil has been laid low by the coronavirus, then the nations whose economies most depend on it might soon be on ventilators. By any prognosis the great oil price collapse of 2020 has pushed […]
Pandemic ‘poses particular challenges’ for food processing plants: Freeland
Pandemic ‘poses particular challenges’ for food processing plants: Freeland Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau warns labour shortages could affect the food supply Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says the government is working on ways to support Canada’s food processing plants during the COVID-19 pandemic in response to concerns about labour shortages. “I am so grateful to all […]
OPINION: Foxes in the henhouse – Who decides where bailout money goes?
OPINION: Foxes in the henhouse – Who decides where bailout money goes? In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, trillions of bailout dollars in the U.S. and Canada are about to be fire hosed into particular areas of the economy. Given that this is public money held by governments, who decides where and to whom […]
Canadian Meat Industry Warns Of “Immediate And Drastic” Impact To Supply
Canadian Meat Industry Warns Of “Immediate And Drastic” Impact To Supply We have been covering the impact of coronavirus on meat processing facilities in the U.S. and now it looks as though Canada is feeling the shockwaves as well. The country’s supply chain could come under pressure as industry leaders in Canada have warned of “immediate and […]
Canada: Police to Make Home Visits to Check Quarantine Compliance
Canada: Police to Make Home Visits to Check Quarantine Compliance Violators face up to $1 million fine and three years in jail. Police in Canada will visit the homes of people under coronavirus quarantine to check they are in compliance, with those who flout the law facing a fine of up to $1 million dollars […]
Ontario to release ‘stark’ COVID-19 projections Friday
Ontario to release ‘stark’ COVID-19 projections Friday Premier Doug Ford promising a ‘sobering discussion’ about the coronavirus Provincial health experts are expected to provide a briefing Friday on modelling projections for the spread of COVID-19 in Ontario. At a Thursday afternoon press conference, Premier Doug Ford promised health officials would explain “where this could go.” […]
Texas Or Canada: Where Will Oil Hit $0 First
Texas Or Canada: Where Will Oil Hit $0 First Looking at the future of oil prices, Goldman was downright apocalyptic in its short-term forecast, when in a note published this morning, the bank’s chief commodity strategist Jeffrey Currie speculated that as the current production glut “shock” cripples the crude transportation networks, “a producer would be […]
‘This will not be contained’: Experts cast doubt that spread of COVID-19 can be stopped
‘This will not be contained’: Experts cast doubt that spread of COVID-19 can be stopped Outside China, there have been more than 7,000 cases in 60 countries and more than 100 deaths While the World Health Organization has said the risk of COVID-19 spreading worldwide is now “very high”, officials have suggested that efforts to combat the coronavirus are still […]
RCMP Accused of Creating ‘Crisis of Press Freedom’ in Wet’suwet’en Raids
RCMP Accused of Creating ‘Crisis of Press Freedom’ in Wet’suwet’en Raids Limits on reporters’ access, threats of arrest bring criticism from media, journalism groups. The RCMP’s handling of the enforcement of an injunction in Wet’suwet’en territory has generated accusations that police unnecessarily interfered with reporters doing their jobs. “This is them trying to control the […]
Canadian Scientist At Center Of Chinese Bio-Espionage Probe Found Dead In Africa?
Canadian Scientist At Center Of Chinese Bio-Espionage Probe Found Dead In Africa? Update (1135ET): It seems that Mr. Plummer made a habit of getting the biological material he was working on “stolen,” as we found a report from 2009 in the Winnepeg Free Press that details the theft of 22 vials of biological material was “confirmed by scientific director […]
Jason Kenney’s Other Pipeline War Is with Michigan
Jason Kenney’s Other Pipeline War Is with Michigan Locals say Enbridge’s aging Line 5 is a disaster waiting to happen and Alberta’s premier should butt out. Locals urging the aging pipeline be closed down fear it could imperil drinking water for tens of millions of people. Some wonder why Kenney, who has claimed Alberta is […]
Green Myths Canada’s LNG Sales Force Tells the World
Green Myths Canada’s LNG Sales Force Tells the World No, methane’s no fix for global coal-fired energy. Here’s why. Representatives of the British Columbia, Alberta and federal governments are making the global rounds these days to sell the notion that liquefied natural gas exports can help the climate crisis. Dave Nikolejsin, deputy minister of the […]
