resources

Stephen Maher on how the once serious Harper-era star became a provincial politician pitching an unserious referendum in Alberta

We bought this 60-year-old Government of Canada map about the country’s most important resources, and then updated it

Economist Dambisa Moyo in conversation with Brian Bethune

But can we really blame inadequate funding?

In Ottawa a few weeks ago, I ran into an old friend who used to work for the Chrétien Liberals. He’s in the private sector now. I was fresh back from China and I said one of the big surprises was the heavy resource orientation of the business delegation accompanying Stephen Harper — Oil, diamonds, gold, pork and lentils, not boutique software firms.

The Quebec premier’s Plan Nord promises to transform Quebec—into Alberta

The Natural Resources Minister takes on the environmental regulatory system, environmentalists, celebrity, air travel, foreigners, America and civil law.

Budget is to blame

All of Canada’s strengths are underpinned by the phenomenal commodity bull market

Canada’s resource sector may be emerging in an unlikely place: Baffin Island

BHP’s bid to buy Potash Corp. has put the global spotlight on Saskatchewan’s business potential

COLBY COSH: Throw a dart at the periodic table and there’s a group claiming that element is “peaking”