BOE Report Staff

  REGINA - A new report says Saskatchewan will need to attract $20 billion to $30 billion in capital investment a year until 2032 to finance economic and infrastructure growth.And in order to do that, the Conference Board of Canada says Saskatchewan has to be open to foreign investors — including state-owned enterprises."Realistically, the investment isn't going to come from within Canada to do a lot of those projects," report author Michael Grant said Monday in a phone interview from [Read more]

  STOCKHOLM — The International Energy Agency says the world’s energy-related carbon dioxide emissions rose 1.4 percent in 2012 to a record high of 31.6 gigatons, even as the U.S. posted its lowest emissions since the mid-1990s. In a report released Monday, the IEA says China saw the largest emissions growth last year, but the increase was among the lowest seen in a decade amid investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency. The IEA says the energy sector accounts for about [Read more]

  FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - A British Columbia man has been charged after threats were made against an oilsands facility in northern Alberta.An investigation began Tuesday north of Fort McMurray after police received a tip on a 911 line, said RCMP Const. Christina Wilkins."We received threats that there were harmful substances," Wilkins said, although she couldn't provide details of what kind of substances were mentioned or the nature of the threats. She said resources from outside [Read more]

Source: tradingeconomics.com   OTTAWA — Canada's economy finally came out of hibernation last month, pumping out a whopping 95,000 new jobs — the vast majority full-time — in the biggest month of employment growth in more than a decade. The massive gain was the first major improvement of 2013 and many times greater than economists had expected, dropping the unemployment rate one-tenth of a point to 7.1 per cent. The impact on the unemployment rate would had been greater but for [Read more]