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View Article  NYMEX Considers Trading Greenhouse Emissions
NYMEX Considers Trading Greenhouse Emissions

NEW YORK - The New York Mercantile Exchange is considering trade in global warming emissions credits, a bourse senior executive said Wednesday.

"We have been looking at it, and will continue, and think it has promise," Robert Levin, senior vice president of research at NYMEX, ...   more »
View Article  Hill to Coderre: You're an idiot

The House of Commons is in recess until May 28 and MPs are back in their ridings. That’s probably a good thing. Last week in Parliament, Conservative MPs filibustered three Committee meetings; Conservative Royal Galipeau jumped Liberal David McGuinty in the House of Commons and, yesterday, Conservative whip Jay ...   more »

View Article  Toews to Jennings: Take a pill

If you ever get the chance to visit the House of Commons during Question Period, you will almost certainly hear the heckling of Marlene Jennings, the Liberal MP for Notre-Dame-de-GrĂ¢ce—Lachine (left). She is easily the loudest and most persistent heckler in the House, so much so, that ...   more »


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