CAMEC launches offer for Canada's Katanga
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London-listed Central African Mining & Exploration launched a formal offer for Katanga Mining Ltd on Wednesday, but Katanga Chief Executive Arthur Ditto said he was not interested.
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Cocooned inside a Cape Town warehouse is South Africa's bid for power on the seas: a $1.5 million Stealth catamaran, the latest offering from a burgeoning boat-building industry.
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Casino operator Stanley Leisure says it has agreed a takeover offer from Malaysian gaming firm Genting.
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Stelco, Canadaâs last domestically owned steel maker, said it was in early talks that might lead to its sale.
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Magna International Inc., the Canadian makers of automobile parts controlled by Frank Stronach, offered to buy the shares that it doesn&#39;t own in three units for as much as C$1.
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Uganda announces a $330m (Â£173m) plan to help almost 2m people displaced in its 20-year northern conflict.
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Canada promised more financial aid on  Tuesday for the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur but stopped  short of boosting its small military contingent.
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OTTAWA (CP) - An agreement that had refugees lining up to get into Canada to beat the deadline came into effect Wednesday.
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BROWN-FORMAN, the drinks group behind Jack Danielâs, will launch a formal bid for Glenmorangie, the Scotch whisky producer which was put up for sale last week.
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KELOWNA, B.C. (CP) - Canada is preparing to contribute &#36;20 million to a peacekeeping effort in violence-ravaged Sudan and will make a final decision on the move within days, The Canadian Press has learned.
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Canada's prime minister on Sunday urged rival groups to disarm and political factions to settle differences in order for the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere to make use of international aid.
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Canada's shows of force, coupled with efforts to win over local people, reveal the country's desire to strengthen its claim to an increasingly valued region.
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A town in the mineral rich Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of Congo has fallen to a mysterious group of militants. Going by the name of the Liberation Movement for
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A Canadian steel maker, Ipsco, said it was buying the NS Group, a maker of steel pipes and tubes used in oil fields, for about $1.46 billion. The deal will be used to broaden IpscoÂs sales to the energy industry, the chief executive, David Sutherland, said. ÂThis is a transaction thatÂs all about growth, and if anything, what we will see over the next three years is a growth in the output of all of their facilities, as well as the continuing demand on our own,Â Mr. Sutherland said in a conference call. Ipsco agreed to pay $66 a share for the NS Group, which was a 43 percent premium to its closing price on Friday. After the transaction is complete, the new company is expected to have combined annual revenue of more than $4 billion. Ipsco, which is based in Regina, Saskatchewan, and has executive offices in Leslie, Ill., operates three steel mills and six pipe mills in the United States and Canada. The NS Group is based in Newport, Ky.
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Anglo-Australian mining group Rio Tinto says it has made a recommended $38.1bn offer for Canadian firm Alcan.
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Canada and Nigeria agreed to terms under which the Canadian International Development Agency is to provide 24.9 million Canadian dollars (20.4 million US) for health projects in the west African country.
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Anyone living in Canada who tuned into TVO last night saw an eye-opening documentary called El Contrato. The film, directed by Min Sook Lee, follows Teodoro Bello Martinez, a poverty-stricken father of four from Central Mexico, and several of his countrymen as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario to work for eight months of the year as migrant labourers picking tomatoes -- in return for wages and working conditions that no locals will accept. Despite their fear of almost certain repercussions, the workers voice their desire not just for better working conditions, but for the simple dignity and respect that all human beings deserve.     Growers hire foreign workers under the government's Seasonal Agricultural Worker Program (SAWP), which is administered by the Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services (F.A.R.M.S) in Ontario (and by F.E.R.M.E. in Quebec, New Brunswick and P.E.I.). Because the growers monitor themselves, and because there is a long line of jobless men "back home" willing and eager to take the place of those in the program, the workers are as ripe for exploitation as the fruit they pick.