Press Digest: Canada - Dec 4
04/12/2018 10:57
Dec 4 (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
** Western Canadian oil prices surged on Monday on Alberta
Premier Rachel Notley's intervention to cut production, even as
global political manoeuvring drove international crude prices
higher. https://tgam.ca/2E23Og2
** British Columbia's attorney general, David Eby, is
pressing Ottawa on whether police and prosecution have the
capacity to handle large-scale financial crimes after the
collapse of a money-laundering case allegedly involving hundreds
of millions of dollars. https://tgam.ca/2AMS51r
** An Ontario Superior Court judge on Monday gave the green
light to at least two lawsuits going ahead against Edward
Lampert, his hedge fund and former directors of insolvent Sears
Canada Inc. https://tgam.ca/2KUz1Tq
NATIONAL POST
** The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has admitted it made a
series of errors resulting in a failure to inform Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau's security detail that a man once convicted of
attempting to assassinate an Indian politician was planning to
attend events with Trudeau during an official government trip to
India last year. https://bit.ly/2Qu2Tvp
(Compiled by Bengaluru newsroom)
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