May 26, 2008

Irving Oil looks to harness tide power in New Brunswick

Irving Oil Corp., owner of Canada’s largest refinery, will spend two years studying possible sites in New Brunswick to generate power from the highest tides in the world.

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Railpower announces new plant outside Montreal

Railpower Technologies Corp. said Monday it will build a new locomotive assembly factory just east of Montreal in Saint-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, a move it said would help it quickly ramp up production.

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Toronto stocks rise on energy boost

Toronto’s main index opened higher on Monday as lofty oil prices boosted the resource-heavy index even as volume was constrained by a U.S. holiday.

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Copyright deal could toughen rules governing info on iPods, computers

The federal government is secretly negotiating an agreement to revamp international copyright laws which could make the information on Canadian iPods, laptop computers or other personal electronic devices illegal and greatly increase the difficulty of travelling with such devices.

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Candente leaps before update on copper deposits

Candente Resource Corp., a Canadian metals exploration company, surged as analysts said the company is likely to boost estimates of copper deposits in Peru.

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Top court agrees to expedite decision on whether to hear BCE appeal

Canada’s Supreme Court has agreed to expedite its decision on whether to hear BCE’s appeal of a lower court decision that threatens to scuttle the $34.8-billion buyout of the big telecommunications company.

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Self-employment getting bum rap, report says

Self-employment is getting a bum rap, a small-business group suggests in a report that argues that a rapidly growing proportion of the self-employed have not only created jobs for themselves, but for other workers as well.

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Loonie falls for third day on economic worries

Canada’s dollar declined for a third straight day on concern that slowing economic growth in the U.S. and Canada will force the Bank of Canada to continue lowering borrowing costs.

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Talisman shares surge on report of suitor

Shares in Talisman Energy Inc., which last week unveiled a shakeup that involves plans to sell assets worth up to $2-billion, climbed 6% Monday on a report that China’s third-largest oil outfit is in talks to buy some or all of the Canadian firm.

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Tabije: Rice problem: What went wrong - Sun.Star

Tabije: Rice problem: What went wrongSun.Star, Philippines - 4 hours agoThe National Irrigation Agency (NIA) then was declared as the finest irrigation agency in Asia. By the later years of the '80, however, …

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