Press Digest: Canada - July 21

Dolly Varden Silver

21/07/2016 12:25

July 21 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from 
selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these 
stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. 
     
    THE GLOBE AND MAIL 
    ** In Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's first chance 
to name a judge to the Supreme Court of Canada, the search for 
diversity is bumping up against the reality of limited choices - 
raising the odds that a government that chose just three white 
males in its first 15 judicial appointments will pick one for 
the country's most powerful court. (http://bit.ly/29NQ0rp) 
     
    ** Three First Nations are taking the federal government to 
court because they say fishing restrictions on the Fraser River 
are causing cultural harm by making it difficult for them to 
harvest salmon for funeral feasts and other ceremonies. (http://bit.ly/29NPppA) 
     
    ** Canada's premiers are about to sit down in Yukon to 
discuss the largest overhaul of interprovincial trade rules in a 
generation, possibly opening Ontario stores to more British 
Columbia wine and its road projects to outside bidders, but 
outstanding issues could prevent a final deal from being adopted 
this week. (http://bit.ly/29PnnXk) 
     
    NATIONAL POST 
    ** The Canada Revenue Agency has revoked the charitable 
status of The Smile Train Canada, a year and a half after the 
Financial Post raised questions about its large fundraising 
expenditures. (http://bit.ly/29NMTzB) 
     
    ** Canada's largest pipeline company Enbridge Inc  ENB.TO  
has reached a $177 million (C$231 million) settlement with the 
U.S. Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection 
Agency over two pipeline spills in the summer of 2010 that 
released more than 26,500 barrels of oil into rivers in Michigan 
and Illinois, bringing the total cost of the controversial 
clean-up to more than $1.2 billion (C$1.57 billion). (http://bit.ly/29NMPQF) 
     
    ** Junior miner and hostile takeover target Dolly Varden 
Silver Corp  DV.V  insists it has valid business reasons to seek 
a private placement that would dilute the company's market value 
in the face of a hostile takeover bid launched by Hecla Mining 
Co  HL.N . (http://bit.ly/29PoplX) 
 (C$1 = $0.77) 
 
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