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Some want a robust gold industry in Nova Scotia. Others say good riddance

A year after Nova Scotia’s only active gold mine shut down, people in the industry say the provincial government is…

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Business

As another cannabis retailer tries to save itself, is the industry going up in smoke?

Got a light? Canada’s weed industry could probably use it. Tokyo Smoke is the latest Canadian cannabis retailer to close…

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Business

Industry fears ‘catastrophe,’ economic fallout ahead of potential rail stoppage

North American industry groups and shippers are bracing for an unprecedented simultaneous stoppage at both of Canada’s main railway companies…

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Business

Is Quebec’s VFX industry in danger? New graduates and veterans say there’s no work

Léa Paquette’s graduation gala in April was awkward to say the least.  Recent 3D-animation graduates dressed to the nines, mingled…

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Business

Booming solar industry has a growing appetite for weed-chomping crews

Under a blistering sun, Janna Grier hops out of her pickup truck to start moving hoses to fill up water…

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Politics

Potential strike hangs over rail industry as labour minister, shippers, union meet Monday

Shippers and producers are holding their breath ahead of a possible strike by thousands of rail workers this month that…

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Canada

Why the once ‘dirty’ mining industry is now touted as key to ‘clean’ energy

It’s found in pencil leads, and also in vast quantities under the lakes and forest outside one small western Quebec town. And in a…

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Canada

As wildfires threaten, oil and gas industry braces for increasing risks from a changing climate

Suncor Energy Inc. filed a disclosure document last year laying out what would happen if extreme weather were to force…

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Nova Scotia

Industry, environmental group at odds over multi-year herring quota reduction

The Herring Science Council is pushing back against a reduced quota in the Bay of Fundy and off southwest Nova…

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Canada

Alberta’s potato industry is booming thanks to a global appetite for french fries

Alberta’s potato industry is in the midst of a growth spurt thanks in part to a growing appetite in Asia for…

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