Alberta

Alberta is asking for private companies to put forward expressions of interest in building new refining capacity in the oil-producing province, one of several steps to deal with what Premier Rachel Notley called "an extraordinary and punishing oil price crisis."

Quebec's finance minister brushed off complaints from Alberta on Monday, December 10, 2018, about his province's share of the federal equalization-funding pie, calling them pre-election posturing in the Prairie province.

New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs remained optimistic on Friday, December 7, 2018, that, someday, a pipeline would be built to bring western crude oil to ports in his region for transport overseas. But the Quebec premier tried his best to kill that dream.

Alberta's United Conservative leader says he regrets comments made in his earlier days about overturning a law extending hospital visitation rights to gay couples during the 1980s AIDS epidemic in San Francisco.

The federal government is opposing a pitch by Alberta's United Conservative Party for intervener status in an upcoming court case in Saskatchewan over the national carbon tax.

Alberta and Saskatchewan want issues facing the oilpatch to be on the agenda when premiers meet with the prime minister later this week.

Leaders from several north-coast B.C. First Nations say if the Senate doesn't approve a bill barring super-sized oil tankers from the region, their thriving but fragile marine-based economies will die.

The Bank of Canada is widely expected to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 1.75 per cent today, December 05, 2018, after a 25-basis-point increase at its last setting in October.

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has announced plans to cut production of oil from her province, in response to a widening gap in the market price for western Canadian crude versus what other crude oils are getting on the market. The gap is triggering losses in provincial coffers of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Alberta needs to buy as many as 7,000 railcars if it wants to be able to meet its goal of shipping an additional 120,000 barrels of oil a day, says Premier Rachel Notley.

The Alberta government is opening a new front in its beer war with other provinces by targeting Ontario for what it says are its unfair trade barriers to Alberta-made suds and other alcoholic products.

Protection of salmon, animals and the land in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia is an eternal responsibility of First Nations and the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline poses risks that could harm the homes and culture of Aboriginal Peoples, the National Energy Board heard on Monday, November 26, 2018.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Alberta is in a crisis as the province's oil is being sold at a discount of about $45 a barrel, but he and some oil company bosses agree there are no easy fixes Ottawa can offer.

What is clear is that the technique is unproven, and by conditionally approving industry plans that include it, Alberta officials are signaling they still have no idea how they’re going to clean up the waste of the oilpatch.

"We’re striking the right balance," the Alberta premier said Thursday, after the announcement at a meeting of the Canadian Association of Oilwell Drilling Contractors at the Petroleum Club in Calgary.