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☆ Canada’s Rogers Communications Moves Closer to Deal for Shaw
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Vipal Monga | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Rogers Communications’ deal to merge with Shaw Communications was announced last year. Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. got a boost Thursday after Canada’s Competition Tribunal ruled against a government challenge to the deal. The Competition Tribunal, known as Canada’s merger court, said the deal’s terms “are not likely to prevent or lessen competition substantially” for consumers, contrary to claims made by the country’s Competition Bureau.

☆ Canada’s Rogers Communications Moves Closer to Deal for Shaw Communications
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Vipal Monga | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Rogers and Shaw announced a deal last year to combine two of Canada’s largest communications companies. Rogers Communications Inc.’s proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. got a boost Thursday after Canada’s Competition Tribunal ruled against a government challenge to the deal. The Competition Tribunal, known as Canada’s merger court, said the deal’s terms “are not likely to prevent or lessen competition substantially” for consumers, contrary to claims made by the country’s Competition Bureau.

☆ Fugitive Cows in Quebec Elude Captors and Inspire a Following
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-19 | by ( Vipal Monga | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ U.S. Oil Prices Under Pressure From Keystone Pipeline’s Largest-Ever Leak
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Benoît Morenne | Vipal Monga | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

A weeklong shutdown of the Keystone oil pipeline is squeezing Gulf Coast refiners, who now have to replace hundreds of thousands of barrels that are no longer flowing through the system. The 2,700-mile Keystone pipeline shut down Dec. 7 after a rupture in Kansas spilled an estimated 14,000 barrels of crude oil, said its operator TC Energy Corp.—the largest such reported leak in the line’s history. The spill is now one of the largest in the U.S. in more than a decade, and the company hasn’t disclosed what caused it or said when the pipeline would be operational.

☆ Quebec Shuns Bitcoin Mining in Bid to Conserve Power
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( Vipal Monga | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Efforts to Make Legal Cannabis Industry Equitable Are Falling Flat
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Vipal Monga | Jennifer Maloney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

More than a dozen states have created programs to give minorities who were disproportionately affected by the war on drugs a chance to participate in their legalized cannabis industries. So far, those efforts haven’t worked.

☆ Efforts to Make Legal Cannabis Equitable Are Falling Flat
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-02 | by ( Vipal Monga | Jennifer Maloney | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Facebook owner Meta Platforms is one of the companies that would be affected by the proposal in Canada. Google parent Alphabet Inc., Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc. and Bytedance Ltd., TikTok’s owner, are pushing back against a proposal in Canada that would force digital platforms to more prominently feature Canadian content and compensate news outlets. The new rules, championed by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau , would require reworking existing algorithms so that if a person in Canada searched on YouTube, the results would display videos mostly from Canadian artists ahead of foreign or U.S.-made content.

☆ RBC Bets on Immigration in $10.1 Billion HSBC Canada Deal
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Vipal Monga | Josh Mitchell | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Royal Bank of Canada said it would pay US$10.1 billion for HSBC Holdings PLC’s Canadian operations, a move meant to position Canada’s biggest bank to expand during an expected immigration surge. HSBC, a London-based bank with a huge Hong Kong presence, serves more than 780,000 customers through 130 branches in Canada. As part of the deal, it will refer clients who are moving to Canada to RBC, said Dave McKay , RBC’s chief executive.

☆ Canada Confronts Shortage of Children’s Pain Relievers
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-11 | by ( Vipal Monga | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TORONTO—Canada is confronting a shortage of children’s Tylenol and Advil just as flu season begins and the country’s hospitals are struggling with a surge of pediatric respiratory viruses. The shortage has left drugstore shelves empty and is forcing Canada’s government to issue emergency orders to allow for the import of acetaminophen and ibuprofen supplies from the U.S. and Australia.

EuropeInvestigators say they found signs of torture on some of the hundreds of bodies buried in a forest at the edge of Izyum, which was recaptured this month.

☆ Indigenous Community Reels After Stabbing Attacks in Canada
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Vipal Monga | Photographs Kitra Cahana For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

JAMES SMITH CREE NATION, Saskatchewan—On a recent day in this small community on the Canadian prairie, people gathered in the school gym listening to traditional indigenous drums and mournful music at back-to-back funerals. Outside, people huddled in groups, crying and smoking. It has been two weeks since this territory of 2,000 people became the scene of one of the worst mass killings in Canadian history. Two brothers allegedly went on a rampage that left 10 dead and 18 injured. Locals said there are still many unanswered questions about what triggered the attacks, how they unfolded and why law enforcement failed to track down one of the brothers, a violent offender, after he disappeared in May.

☆ Parking Meter for Stranded Russian Plane Hits $330,000 and Keeps Going
▼ + stars: | 2022-02-28 | by ( Vipal Monga | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

TORONTO—The Toronto Pearson Airport is charging what amounts to nearly a penny a second for a special, extra-large parking space, a bargain given the size. An Antonov An-124 cargo plane has been parked there for more than a year. The flying monstrosity, one of 26 in the world, has a wingspan of 240 feet, double that of a Boeing 737’s, and is roomy enough to ferry satellites, locomotive engines and wind turbines—as much as 150 tons of stuff.

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