World & Nation
Two Orange County oil companies, Western Energy Resources and Albion International Resources, have joined a consortium of six U.S., Canadian and New Zealand firms to search for oil off the northwest coast of New Zealand.
Feb. 16, 1988
Trade: President wants to cut hemispheric barriers for oil, gas and electricity. But it may be a hard sell south of the border.
Feb. 16, 2001
Canada has dispatched two icebreakers to map the Arctic seabed beneath the North Pole to support a bid to extend the country’s maritime territory deeper into the waterways at the top of the world.
Aug. 11, 2014
For weeks, protests over a natural gas pipeline in British Columbia paralyzed rail travel in Canada. The blockade is over, but tensions linger.
March 7, 2020
When Worldwatch Institute released a study on soil erosion last fall, it made headlines around the world, including in scores of major newspapers that had reported on the same study eight months earlier when it appeared as a chapter in the research organization’s book, “State of the World 1984.”
July 14, 1985
Canada’s Conservative government, elected last fall, has a new message for U.S. oil producers.
June 3, 1985
Business
The Bank of Canada raised interest rates Tuesday, the third increase since September, in a move that may help keep the country’s currency at 13-year highs against its U.S. counterpart -- bad news for American tourists headed north.
Dec. 7, 2005
The thirstiest states, notably in the West, cast increasingly interested eyes on the enormous reservoir.
Oct. 28, 2007
Four years ago, Canada became the first country to withdraw from the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that set global targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Nov. 29, 2015
President Reagan on Monday endorsed Prime Minister Brian Mulroney’s efforts to promote freer trade between the United States and Canada, but two of the most contentious issues between the two nations remain unsettled.
April 7, 1987