The Hibernia platform saw an estimated 2,200 litres of oil spilled into the ocean southeast of St. John’s during a power outage over the weekend, just a month after a 12,000-litre spill.
A documentary depicting the fraught emotions over Northern Pulp’s plan to pump wastewater into the Northumberland Strait will be aired on the CBC August. 28.
About 85,000 economic immigrants a year settle in Canada and whether that number is too high, too low, or just right is a frequent political flashpoint, linked at times to whether newcomers integrate successfully into the country.
After recent deaths, the Fisheries Minister is looking at what further actions can be taken to protect the endangered species in Atlantic Canadian waters.
The Ontario-based cannabis company has a license to begin producing cannabis at its facility in Fredericton and has plans to hire more than 130 people to work there.
Canada only recycles about 9 per cent of the plastic it produces. According to a recent report prepared for Environment Canada by Deloitte and ChemInfo Services, in 2016 Canadians threw out 3.3 million tonnes of plastic, 12 times more than was recycled.
Ken Weisbrod tells Saint John conference his company has signed a deal with TruTrace Technologies for a pilot program to provide the software to track medical cannabis from seed to final product.
Cabinet is expected to announce its decision on the expansion of the Alberta−to−B.C. pipeline by Tuesday. Given that Trudeau’s government bought the pipeline and expansion project for $4.5 billion, it’s widely anticipated to give it the green light.
The national airline company has routes servicing Moncton and Fredericton.
Overall, Canada’s labour market delivered a surprise Friday with its biggest one-month employment surge since 1976, when the government started collecting comparable data.
