Category Archives: Business
Minnesota gives final green light to Enbridge’s Line 3 project
Minnesota regulators approved the final permit Monday for Enbridge's Line 3 crude oil pipeline replacement across northern Minnesota, giving the company the green light to begin construction on the US...
Nov 30, 2020
Market Watch: Nov. 27
Big Picture Dow Breaks 30,000 Mark on Vaccine Hopes, Cooperation on Biden Transition U.S. stocks climbed Monday after a third COVID-19 vaccine showed promise in clinical trials, strengthening hopes fo...
Nov 27, 2020
Province improves access to trucking jobs
The provincial government has established a grant program and a training program to get more truck drivers behind the wheel.In a release, the government says a $3-million Driving Back to Work grant pr...
Nov 26, 2020
Gasoline Alley Farmers' Market soft opening a success
The soft opening of the Gasoline Alley Farmers' Market last weekend is being dubbed a success.General manager Shauna Fisher says they are very happy with the response and support from the community."W...
Nov 26, 2020
Chamber relieved total lockdown avoided
Officials with the Red Deer and District Chamber of Commerce are breathing a sigh of relief that new provincial government measures to address growing COVID-19 cases in the province do not include a t...
Nov 25, 2020
Keystone XL not the same project John Kerry nixed in 2015, Canada's U.S. envoy says
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Canada's ambassador to the United States says the Keystone XL pipeline project has evolved since John Kerry nixed it in 2015. President-elect Joe Biden has named Kerry, former...
Nov 24, 2020
Market Watch: Nov. 20
Big Picture Vaccine News Lift Markets, But Coronavirus Fears Still Weigh Heavy The S&P 500 and Dow hit record closing highs on Monday as news of another promising coronavirus vaccine, this one fro...
Nov 20, 2020
AIMCo chief executive to exit from Alberta's embattled fund manager by June 2021
CALGARY - The chief executive of Alberta Investment Management Corp. is expected to leave the post by next June a few months earlier than planned before the Alberta fund manager's investment track rec...
Nov 19, 2020
Province declares Women’s Entrepreneurship Day in Alberta
The provincial government has declared Nov. 19 as Women's Entrepreneurship Day in Alberta.Leela Sharon Aheer, Alberta's Minister of Culture, Multiculturalism and Status of Women, issued the following ...
Nov 19, 2020
Drilling forecast calls for 14% rebound in 2021 from depths of 2020 activity
CALGARY - The organization that represents Canadian drilling contractors is forecasting a 14 per cent increase in the number of oil and gas wells to be drilled in Canada in 2021 compared with the hist...
Nov 18, 2020