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Brookfield Infrastructure buying Enercare in friendly deal valued at $4.3B
TORONTO - Brookfield Infrastructure Partners has made a friendly $4.3-billion takeover offer for Enercare Inc., which would provide the Brookfield group with a source of stable revenue from a variety ...
Aug 1, 2018
Britain looks to growing Asian markets for post-Brexit era
TOKYO - Britain wants to align itself more closely with Asia’s growing economies as it prepares to leave the European Union, Trade Secretary Liam Fox said Wednesday. The United Kingdom seeks to ...
Aug 1, 2018

Toronto Wolfpack to open and close rugby league playoffs on the road
TORONTO - The Toronto Wolfpack will open and close the playoffs on the road, hosting Super League sides Widnes and Hull Kingston Rovers in the middle of their push to win promotion to the top tier of ...
Aug 1, 2018

Playing together on U.S. junior team a 'cool experience' for Hughes brothers
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The Hughes brothers used to play mini-stick hockey in their basement, pretending they were on the same NHL team. Now that dream is edging closer to reality, with two of the brothers a...
Aug 1, 2018

Mike Huckabee says he may buy home in West Bank settlement
EFRATA, Palestinian Territory - Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has symbolically taken part in the building of an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. The former governor of Arkansas laid ...
Aug 1, 2018

Molson seeks to disrupt beverage industry with cannabis-infused joint venture
TORONTO - Molson Coors Canada is seeking to disrupt the country’s beverage industry by entering into a joint venture to develop non-alcoholic cannabis-infused products that could give it a leg u...
Aug 1, 2018

Congo's Bemba returns to country to register as candidate
KINSHASA, Congo - Congo’s former Vice-President Jean-Pierre Bemba returned to the country on Wednesday to register as a presidential candidate in December’s long-delayed election, more tha...
Aug 1, 2018

CARTOON 08-01-2018
Featured in Ripley's Believe It or Not! Source: CARTOON 08-01-2018
Aug 1, 2018

In the news today, Aug. 1
Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 1 --- U.S.-MEXICO NAFTA TALKS ENCOURAGING Federal insiders say Canada’s NAFTA partners are simply trying to work through bilateral sticking points, ev...
Aug 1, 2018

The corporate climb: corporate Canada's quiet Me Too reckoning
TORONTO - Maria Soklis remembers feeling ostracized by her co-workers early in her career for speaking up about “aggressive” sexual harassment - until more allegations by others involving ...
Aug 1, 2018