EDMONTON _ The federal government is putting up more than $900 million to finance municipal building projects in Alberta. The largest chunk of money _ about $750 million over four years _ will flow from a two-year extension of a program that shares g...

FREDERICTON _ New Brunswick communities are getting some extra infrastructure funding as a result of an extension of the federal gas tax fund. New Brunswick will get more than $178 million from the fund between 2010 and 2014. Veterans Affairs Ministe...

VANCOUVER _ Fuel-cell maker Ballard Power Systems Inc. (TSX:BLD) said Thursday that its securityholders have approved a deal that will see it shed its old corporate shell and hand it over to Superior Plus Income Fund (TSX:SPF.UN) as part of a $41-mil...

GODERICH, Ont. _ Sifto Canada Corp. and its U.S. parent are spending US$70 million to expand a salt mine in southwestern Ontario to meet growing demand for highway deicing salt in the Great Lakes region. The expansion is being carried out by Sifto, a...

By Clint Thomas THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO _ Officials at Canada's busiest airport were gearing up Thursday to face the brunt of a winter storm expected to bear down on southern Ontario on one of the busiest travel days of the holiday season. Up...

BURLINGTON, Ont. _ Venture capitalist Kevin O'Leary, more widely known as a forthright television personality, is leaving the board of EnGlobe Corp. (TSX:EG). The waste-disposal and soil-remediation company, formerly known as Environmental Manag...

By Jim Macdonald THE CANADIAN PRESS EDMONTON _ Thousands of workers from as far away as the Philippines are watching their jobs in Alberta evaporate as the richest oil boom in the province's history deflates. Sinking oil prices have forced skitt...

Frozen crystals packed with concentrated natural gas and buried 2,000 feet below the permafrost on Alaska's North Slope could become the next major domestic energy source.