The imminent completion of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion is more likely following Friday’s decision by the Canada Energy Regulator to approve a request for a pipeline variance from the company building the project.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military early Saturday struck another Houthi-controlled site in Yemen that it had determined was putting commercial vessels in the Red Sea at risk, two U.S. officials said, a day after the U.S. and Britain launched multiple airstrikes targeting Houthi rebels.

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Guyana’s Attorney General Anil Nandlall said Thursday that Guyana’s government has reassured neighboring Venezuela there is no plan for the U.S. to establish a military base in the South American country and that it has not made a formal request for one.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s navy captured an oil tanker Thursday in the Gulf of Oman that only months earlier had seen its cargo of Iranian oil seized by the United States over sanctions linked to Tehran’s nuclear program, further escalating the tensions gripping the Mideast’s waterways.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council demanded an immediate halt to attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels on ships in the Red Sea in a resolution adopted Wednesday that implicitly condemned their main weapons supplier — Iran.

On Jan. 10, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith released a video on YouTube in which she slags federal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault and his numerous climate change policies. The most recent one is a recent “plastics registry,” which flies in the face of Alberta’s push to expand its plastics industry.  

The Transportation Safety Board says external corrosion led to a natural gas pipeline rupture that caused an explosion near a small northwestern Alberta community.

The German government on Thursday watered down cost-saving plans that have infuriated farmers, announcing that it is giving up a proposal to scrap a car tax exemption for farming vehicles and will stagger cuts to tax breaks for diesel used in agriculture.

OPEC publishes regular reports on global oil production. This is what it said about Canada in its December report: Canada's liquids production in October is estimated to have risen by 122 thousand barrels per day (tb/d), m-o-m, to average 5.8 million barrels per day...

The Canadian Chamber of Commerce is calling on Ottawa to conduct a charm offensive to defend Canada’s trade interests in the U.S. ahead of November’s presidential election.