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When Ernie Farris walked past his childhood home in Peterborough, Ont., this summer for the first time in years, he had an alarming thought.
In the late 1940s, as a young teen, he had helped his father unload a truck full of fluffy, white scrap asbestos from the local General Electric factory, spreading it in the family's attic as cheap insulation.
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The secure supply of Canadian oil to the United States could recapture the attention of American decision-makers following the recent attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities, experts say.   
Industry and government leaders around the world are still assessing the impact of Saturday's drone strikes on the state-owned Saudi Aramco facilities.
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OTTAWA -- The Canadian Real Estate Association raised its forecast for home sales this year, helped by economic fundamentals and falling mortgage rates.
The improved outlook for the year came as CREA reported home sales in August were up five per cent compared with the same month last year.
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Higher oil prices spurred by an attack on Saudi Arabian oil facilities boosted the Canadian energy sector on Monday but are expected to result in higher fuel prices for consumers.
Long-suffering Canadian oil and gas stocks were on track to post their best day in nearly three years on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
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A company in Nelson, B.C., is proving that from microscopic things, big things grow.
Dehnel-Particle Accelerator Components and Engineering, or D-Pace, has just won two contracts worth more than $1 million to build ion source facilities, complex accelerator machines that create charged particles for medical and technological applications.
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Three people — including a trader who ran JPMorgan's global precious metals desk — were charged Monday with manipulating the precious metals futures market, the U.S. Justice Department said.
The indictment, which was unsealed in federal court in Illinois, alleges the traders were involved in a racketeering conspiracy that prosecutors say spanned eight years and involved thousands of transactions.
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MONTREAL -- U.S. President Donald Trump's push to withdraw from an international postal treaty could have a big impact on Canadian e-commerce companies and their American customers.
The U.S. threat to exit the Universal Postal Union in October unless more balanced shipping fees with China and other countries can be reached this month means online retailers could see direct-to-consumer delivery prices shoot up.
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OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and its owners expressed sympathy but not responsibility for the nation's opioid crisis as the company filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night, part of a move to settle some 2,600 lawsuits -- most from state and local governments.
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Think "pipeline dispute" and the mind may conjure up images of environmental protest, pro-oil rallies and bickering politicians.
But there's another kind of dispute simmering over pipelines these days — one that could shake-up the sector for years to come and is dividing opinions in the Canadian oilpatch.
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Purdue Pharma, the company that made billions selling the prescription painkiller OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy in White Plains, New York, days after reaching a tentative settlement with many of the state and local governments suing it over the toll of opioids.
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A drone attack on Saudi Arabia's largest oil-processing plant pushed crude prices higher on Monday and could soon be felt at the pumps.
The attack by Yemen's Houthi rebels on the Abqaiq processing plant shut down about five per cent of world crude oil output.
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