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Bummer huh? Don't serve carbon lies, ACCC warns SHOPS and restaurants could face fines up to $1.1 million if waiters or sales staff wrongly blame the carbon tax for price rises or exaggerate the impact. And households are being warned to watch out for telephone scammers offering to...

Imagine you’re NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair and you’ve just been elected prime minister. Now, you’re about to impose a massive, new cap-and-trade market on Canada as your solution to “Dutch Disease.” In other words, you’re going to hit Canadian energy producers with a new cost, buying pollution...

Mining is the backbone of the Saskatchewan economy and its prospects are enormous. The province is internationally recognized as a leader in mining, a sector stimulating economic growth, job creation and spin-off activity in urban centres, rural areas and First Nations communities across the...

The crude oil flows thick and black, pouring like hot coffee sludge into a rail tanker on the Saskatchewan prairie. The tracks it sits on bisect a snow-covered tableau of wheat fields and grain elevators and oil wells. The rails stretch past the horizon, winding their way to distant refineries...

The federal government Friday called for all baby boomers to be tested for hepatitis C, which kills more Americans each year than AIDS and is the leading reason for liver transplants. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention made the recommendation to find hundreds of thousands of...

Home to over 25 different mine operations, Saskatchewan is producing massive quantities of mineral exports. Pam Schwann, executive director of the Saskatchewan Mining Association, was recently interviewed about Saskatchewan's place in the world mineral market. Q: What advantage does mining...

Saskatchewan has become much more than a land of rolling wheat fields and emerald forests. No longer relying solely on its economic backbone of agriculture, the province has even become more than the land of milk and honey - increasingly, it is the land of ore and money. Minerals make up a...

Whether it's potash, oil, uranium or forest products, Saskatchewan is rich in a variety of natural resources, which is moving our province into the forefront of economic growth and development. At the centre of that growth is Saskatchewan's mining industry. In 2011, the estimated value of...

Saskatoon has evolved into a major manufacturing centre, with 364 companies employing a workforce of 9,900 people, or 6.7 per cent of the region's total employment. The largest three sub-groups within the manufacturing centre are machinery manufacturing, fabricated metal product...

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Consumer prices rose by two per cent in the year ended in April, slightly ahead of the annual pace seen the previous month. Statistics Canada said increases in transportation costs were the major factor in the uptick. They were 3.2 per cent higher. But energy prices increased 1.1 per cent in...

Canadians who get creeped out by web ads that seem to know a little too much about their personal habits should have access in the coming months to an opt-out tool that will help fight the effect of so-called behavioural advertising. IAB Canada, a non-profit association representing the...

TOKYO—Energy companies from China, South Korea and Japan have put aside political and commercial rivalries to ship billions of dollars worth of Canadian liquefied natural gas to Asian markets, but they will face stiff competition for supplies and customers from a raft of competing projects. In...

Windfarms for all, but without using steel or concrete Posted in Science, 16th May 2012 08:19 GMT Analysis Extremist green campaigning group WWF - endorsed by no less a body than the European Space Agency - has stated that economic growth should be abandoned, that citizens of the world's...

Get Higher with Mangoes Unlike the rumor smoking banana peels will produce a high, mangoes do contribute to increasing a stoners' weed high. Marijuana contains a chemical called Myrcene. High grade marijuana bud generally contains a comparatively higher concentration of myrcene than low...

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Milk wouldn't be poured out if weirdos didn't make a fuss. Outdated milk used to go back to the dairy to be made into ice cream, cheeses, sour cream, cottage cheese etc..

Sorry if it's not doom and glom..... Canada's economy added 58,200 mostly full-time jobs in April, almost six times what economists had forecast. It was the second month in a row that employment grew, following a jump of 82,300 in March, and far exceeded the 10,000 jobs that economists had...

Weir is an economist with the United Steelworkers union, which represents workers in Saskatchewan's mining and manufacturing industries. Premier Brad Wall calls federal NDP Leader Tom Mulcair "very, very divisive" for expressing concern that Canada's overvalued petro-dollar is eliminating...

Bummer. I was looking forward to the end. NEW YORK—Archeologists working in Guatemala have found a small room amid Mayan ruins where royal scribes apparently used walls like a blackboard to keep track of astronomical records and the society’s intricate calendar some 1,200 years ago...