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[published_date] Burgundy Diamond Mines says it's laid off several hundred employees and contractors and has temporarily stopped open pit mining at Point Lake — one of its two active operations at the Ekati Diamond Mine.  In an emailed statement to CBC News on Wednesday, Ariella Calin, a communications manager for the company, said mining the Point…

[published_date] Giant shovels, driverless trucks and a dog-like robot have all helped Canada's oilsands companies including Imperial Oil and Suncor become some of North America's lowest-cost oil producers, driving down overheads even as the worst inflation in a generation pushed U.S. shale costs up. As the global oil industry enters a downturn due to economic…

[published_date] The gap between the country's highest- and lowest-income households reached a record high in the first quarter of 2025, Statistics Canada said Wednesday. The agency said the difference in the share of disposable income between households in the top 40 per cent of the income distribution and the bottom 40 per cent grew to…

[published_date] Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard, who reached No. 5 in the WTA rankings in a breakout 2014 season, is retiring from tennis at this year's National Bank Open in Montreal. Tennis Canada announced Bouchard's retirement at her hometown tournament in a news release Wednesday and said she will receive a main-draw wild card into…

[published_date] While Alberta's oilpatch continues to make billions of dollars in profits, much of that money is finding its way into shareholder's pockets rather than toward major expansions of their operations. At the time of the last boom, oil producers poured a large portion of their earnings back into capital spending. In 2014, for example,…

[published_date] Prime Minister Mark Carney promised to further crack down on the amount of cheap, foreign steel entering the Canadian market, as the industry continues to be clobbered by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs. Carney made the announcement in Hamilton on Wednesday morning, eliciting a sigh of relief from an industry that has already seen layoffs…

[published_date] More than seven years after a privacy scandal involving Facebook and the Cambridge Analytica consulting firm emerged, an $8-billion US class action investors' lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg and other Meta board members will begin. The plaintiffs, led by Amalgamated Bank Inc., will argue in court in Wilmington, Del., that the harvesting of data of Facebook users…

[published_date] A planeload of Porter Airlines passengers got an unexpected detour to Regina on Tuesday night, after their plane made an emergency landing.  The Embraer 195 jet had been cruising at 38,000 feet over Montana, en route from Hamilton, Ont., to Vancouver, when the plane suddenly made a steep descent around 7:30 p.m. CST, then diverted to Regina International…

[published_date] A Manitoba woman, who blew the whistle on a case in which Loblaw sold underweight meat across 80 stores in Western Canada, has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the grocery chain over allegations it consistently overcharges for meat and seafood by including the packaging weight in the final price tag. Plaintiff Iris Griffin's claim,…

[published_date] B.C. billionaire Ruby Liu and her bid to buy up to 25 Hudson's Bay leases was due to come under further scrutiny in court Tuesday — but the battle was waylaid when she showed up with no lawyer or materials to aid in making her case. Judge Peter Osborne adjourned the Tuesday hearing, telling Liu,…

[published_date] A Manitoba woman, who blew the whistle on a case in which Loblaw sold underweighted meat across 80 stores in Western Canada, has filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the grocery chain over allegations it consistently overcharges for meat and seafood by including the packaging weight in the final price tag. Plaintiff Iris Griffin's…

[published_date] Saskatchewan Roughriders fans who headed to Regina's Mosaic stadium Friday had a rough night, sitting through rounds of delays and ultimately the postponement of the game more than three hours after the scheduled kick-off time. While the Riders postponed, other sports in Saskatchewan played on, despite much of the province being blanketed in wildfire smoke…