Press Digest: Canada - Aug 30

High Arctic Energy Services

30/08/2016 13:04

Aug 30 (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 
    ** Canadians are split on whether trade or human rights 
should be the priority as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau launches 
his first official visit to China, a new poll has found. http://bit.ly/2bxb1c7 
     
    ** Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to make reviews of 
oil-pipeline projects more credible. The country's pipeline 
regulator, the National Energy Board, has little choice but to 
kick out two of the three panelists who are supposed to review 
the controversial project. http://bit.ly/2bxb6fZ 
     
    ** Toronto-Dominion Bank  TD.TO  announced on Monday that it 
will issue preferred shares yielding 4.85 percent. While that 
looks attractive relative to the slim yields on government 
bonds, it is down from the much higher 5.5 percent yield on the 
previous round of TD preferred shares. http://bit.ly/2byRpy8 
     
    NATIONAL POST 
    ** Tervita Corp  CCSX.UL , a privately held oilfield and 
environmental services company that employs 1,500 people, 
announced Monday it had struck a deal to sell its service rig 
business comprising 68 rigs and 300 people to High Arctic Energy 
Services Inc  HWO.TO  for C$42.8 million ($32.85 million). http://bit.ly/2bOQaA5 
     
    ** Ivanhoe Mines Ltd  IVN.TO  announced Monday it will seek 
"strategic advice" after receiving unsolicited interest in the 
company and its projects from "significant mining industry 
participants" in Asia, Europe and Africa. http://bit.ly/2bFSxBY 
     
    ** Canadian researchers have uncovered new evidence of an 
unusual link between two seemingly divergent maladies: an eye 
disease that is one of the most common causes of blindness - and 
impotence. http://bit.ly/2bSQ34d 
  
($1 = 1.3029 Canadian dollars) 
 
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