Polar opposites: Canada counters Russian claims to energy-rich Arctic

Polar opposites: Canada counters Russian claims to energy-rich Arctic

Special to WorldTribune.com Compiled by Miles Yu, Geostrategy-Direct.com Canadian Prime Minster Stephen Harper will tour the Arctic to mark that country’s resolve in protecting its claims in the region. Canada’s arctic regional interests have been increasingly threatened by Russia, a country that has emerged as the most aggressive in recent years to challenge Canada’s arctic […]

Canada firm reports new oil finds in Kurdistan

Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The Kurdish Regional Government has overseen an increase in crude oil discoveries. A Canadian company has reported two oil-bearing zones in northern Iraq. ShaMaran Petroleum, which has already reported two other discoveries, said the latest deposits were located in the Pulkhana-9 appraisal well. ShaMaran said it conducted six tests after […]

Laughter the best medicine for Montreal’s linguistic and cultural divide

Laughter the best medicine for Montreal’s linguistic and cultural divide

John J. Metzler MONTREAL — It’s takes a comedian to break the ice in the often frosty linguistic debate in Montreal, the cosmopolitan Canadian city where the French-speaking majority jealously and legally holds the linguistic high ground. So when an Indo/Canadian immigrant Samir “Sugar Sammy” Khullar brought a hilarious comedy show in Franglais, a mix […]

Canadian firm drilling for Somalian oil: First such venture in decades

Special to WorldTribune.com WASHINGTON — A Canadian-owned company has begun drilling for energy in war-torn Somalia. Horn Petroleum Corp. has spudded a well in northern Somalia in the first such project in the African country in more than 20 years. Horn, a majority stake of which is owned by Canada’s Africa Oil Corp., intends to […]