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These companies have laid off Canadian workers in 2023

North Shore News 04 Dec 2023
The Calgary-based company which creates charity-centric software revealed plans to slash its team by 14 per cent, leaving 137 workers without a job in January ... The Calgary-based company said at the start of June that it would cut 1,500 jobs by the end of the year as it aims to reduce costs and improve the firm's lagging financial performance.
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Alberta regulator probes mine wall 'instabilities' after worker nearly buried: union

North Shore News 15 Nov 2023
"It buried the excavator with the operator in it," said Shayne Jessome, who works at the CST Canada Coal mine in Grande Cache, about 430 kilometres west of Edmonton ... The Canadian Press left messages seeking comment at the mine company's Calgary and overseas offices, but they were not returned.
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’IT STILL HAUNTS ME’: Military veterans keen to share their history as numbers drop

Canoe 11 Nov 2023
CALGARY — The time around Remembrance Day is tough for Second World War veterans like Hank Jackson, who turns 103 in January.Advertisement 2 ... Staff with The Military Museums in Calgary, home to eight separate museums, have interviewed many of the dwindling number of Second World War veterans.
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'It still haunts me': Military veterans keen to share their history as numbers drop

North Shore News 10 Nov 2023
CALGARY — The time around Remembrance Day is tough for Second World War veterans like Hank Jackson, who turns 103 in January ... Staff with The Military Museums in Calgary, home to eight separate museums, have interviewed many of the dwindling number of Second World War veterans.
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Mawson Announces Appointment of Neil MacRae as New Independent Director

The Eagle-Tribune 27 Oct 2023
MacRae is a capital markets professional with 29 years of experience in investor relations, commodities trading and corporate development within the global mining industry. Neil holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Calgary and started his career in 1994 with Mitsui & Co ... and Santacruz Silver Mining Ltd.
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Lomiko Metals Reflects on China's Move to Limit Graphite Exports and Announces Corporate Update, and ...

The Joplin Globe 23 Oct 2023
MONTREAL--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 23, 2023--. Lomiko Metals Inc. (TSX.V ... Mining Investment North America, Toronto ... A Student-Industry Workshop, Faculty of Law of the University of Calgary ... Lithium and Graphite Mining for the Green Energy Transition ” ... Pathways to Net Zero Mining - 12th Energy and Mines Toronto Summit ... AGM ... MINING/MINERALS NATURAL RESOURCES ... .
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Investors drawn to oil and gas, energy transition, TSX top 30 list shows

North Shore News 12 Sep 2023
CALGARY — Both traditional oil and gas stocks as well as Canada's mining and metals sector have benefited from a recent surge of investor interest in energy, new data from the Toronto Stock Exchange shows ... In the number one spot is Calgary-based Paramount Resources Ltd., which saw its share price increase by 1,913 per cent over a three-year period.
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La ville de Calgary améliore la vie urbaine grâce à la technologie intelligente d’Axis Communications

The Joplin Globe 15 Aug 2023
La ville de Calgary en Alberta, au Canada, et Axis Communications ont dévoilé aujourd’hui la façon dont Axis aide la ville à améliorer la sécurité et les opérations grâce à des mises à niveau de technologie de sécurité intelligente ... The City of Calgary integrates Axis cameras, ...
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$13M clawed back from transfers to Alberta as clinics fall under scrutiny

CBC 28 Jul 2023
A University of Calgary professor says a situation at the Marda Loop Medical Clinic in Calgary is a "canary in the coal mine" as Health Canada says it is aware of a second arrangement that could run afoul of the Canada Health Act ... .
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‘I’m sure he’d be a good boss’: Iginla pulling for Conroy to land GM job with Flames

Canoe 28 Jul 2023
Jarome Iginla believes Craig Conroy “would do a great job” as a general manager of the Calgary Flames ... But there has been plenty of scuttlebutt that if Conroy is handed the keys to Brad Treliving’s old office, it could pave the way for the Flames’ all-time leading scorer to someday join the staff in Calgary, and Iginla didn’t squash that idea.
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Burgundy Diamond Mines Completes Transformational Acquisition Of Ekati

MENA FN 04 Jul 2023
(MENAFN - GlobeNewsWire - Nasdaq) CALGARY, Alberta, July 04, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Burgundy Diamond Mines Limited has successfully completed the transaction to acquire 100 percent of Arctic ... .
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Mining companies betting on autonomous technology to make dangerous jobs safer

Moosejaw Today 25 Jun 2023
CALGARY — Forget about the canary in the coal mine — experts say the day is coming when there won't even be a need for a human. The global mining industry has come a long way since the days when coal-blackened miners would carry a bird underground with them in hopes its distress would alert them to the presence of toxic gases.
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Supporters of slain mining activist take case against Canada to international body

North Shore News 07 Jun 2023
OTTAWA — Family and supporters of a Mexican activist who was killed after opposing a Canadian company's mining project are taking their case to an international human rights body ... The case stretches back to 2007, when Calgary-based Blackfire Exploration Ltd. opened a barite mine in ...
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Slain mining activist's supporters take case against Canada to international body

Toronto Sun 07 Jun 2023
OTTAWA — Family and supporters of a Mexican activist who was killed after opposing a Canadian company’s mining project are taking their case to an international human rights body ... The case stretches back to 2007, when Calgary-based Blackfire Exploration Ltd. opened a barite mine in ...
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Environment a background issue in Alberta election but may play role, say observers

Moosejaw Today 13 May 2023
They tried delisting parks and opening the Rocky Mountains to coal mining ... "That's exactly what the movement against the strip mining of the eastern slopes did.". Calgary pollster Janet Brown has identified those in a demographic that in many ways typifies Alberta's approach to environmental issues ... "We call that segment Calgary Dissonance.".
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