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Ontario's opposition parties are hoping for clear answers when a former top aide to former premier Dalton McGuinty testifies today at the committee hearings into cancelled gas plants in Oakville and Mississauga. More...

Opposition accusations that Ontario's Liberal government intentionally deleted emails to cover up the cost of cancelling gas plants in Oakville and Mississauga were given more fuel Wednesday by the province's privacy commissioner. More...

CBC News has learned that two Canadians linked to al-Qaeda and killed while staging a bloody attack on an Algerian gas refinery earlier this year were former high school friends in their early 20s, and both from a middle-class London, Ont., neighbourhood. More...

The other day, a gentleman went to the Dentist's office to have a tooth pulled. The Dentist pulls out a freezing needle to give him a shot. "No way"! No needles! "I hate needles", the man said. The Dentist starts to hook up the laughing gas and the man immediately objected. "I can't do the...

Crude oil prices held to more than $109 per barrel overnight and gas prices jumped 3.5 cents following U.S. President Obama's remarks on rising gasoline prices. "There are no quick fixes to this problem, and you know we can't just drill our way to lower gas prices," Obama said during an...

With the summer driving season approaching, energy analysts expect the cost of gas to rise by between five and 20 cents per litre across the country. More...

AP - Riot police in a southern Chinese coastal town fired tear gas Friday at protesters, including elderly men and women, on the fourth day of unrest over a planned power plant expansion, according to protesters' accounts and TV footage. More...

The premiers of Alberta, Saskatchewan and British Columbia have agreed to join forces and approach Ottawa on greenhouse gas regulations and the so-called Canadian Energy Strategy. More...

Alberta's premier is calling on the provinces and Ottawa to form a united front on oil, gas and other forms of Canadian-produced energy as the country looks to expand the market for its oil and gas beyond the United States. More...

Prime Minister Stephen Harper delivers blunt message for U.S. President Barack Obama: Canada will look for new markets in Asia for its oil and gas, now that the Keystone pipeline has been delayed for more than a year. More...

The other day, a gentleman went to the dentist's office to have a tooth pulled. the dentist pulls out a freezing needle to give him a shot. "no way! No needles! I hate needles", the man said. the dentist starts to hook up the laughing gas & the man immediately objected. "i can't do the...

One of the key players behind a failed gas exploration company in Souris is appealing his conviction on a charge of conspiring to commit fraud. Edward Wenger, 71, was sentenced last month to two years in prison for arranging a fake natural gas find near Souris. The fake flare prompted a surge...

During the Second World War, almost every motorized vehicle in continental Europe was converted to use firewood. Wood gas cars (also known as producer gas cars) are a not-so-elegant but surprisingly efficient and ecological alternative to their petrol (gasoline) cousins, whilst their range is...

A man working at a gas station in Mississauga suffered life-threatening injuries after chasing a driver who allegedly stole gas. The incident occurred just before 5 p.m. Thursday at a Petro Canada station on Southdown Road near the Queen Elizabeth Way. Emergency crews arrived to find the man...

Encana Corp [ECA 32.86 -0.04 (-0.12%) ] said on Wednesday it will sell half of a prolific British Columbia shale gas project to PetroChina [PTR 136.09 -1.05 (-0.77%) ] for C$5.4 billion ($5.4 billion) in the largest Chinese investment in a Canadian energy asset yet. After nine...

The price of gas, diesel and furnace oil is up again on P.E.I., despite a recent drop in the price of a barrel of oil. The Island Regulatory and Appeals commission authorized a one cent per litre increase for all three petroleum products in its mid-month price review. The increase occurred...

One worker was unaccounted for after explosions rocked a natural gas liquids storage complex on Tuesday in Mont Belvieu, Texas, according to the plant's owner, which also said the main facilities were not damaged. Firefighters contained the massive fire, visible 35 miles to the west in...

-- A gas pipeline was set on fire in the Egyptian Sinai town of El Arish on Saturday in a suspected terrorist attack, officials said. The pipeline goes to Jordan and Syria, said a spokesman for Merhav company, a partner of EMG, the company that owns the pipeline. Unless the pipe was repaired...

A minimum security prison near Winnipeg was evacuated Tuesday after contractors ruptured a gas line into the institution. The Correctional Service of Canada said in a news release that the line at Rockwood Institution was ruptured about 2:30 p.m. CT. All gas lines to the prison were turned off...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/us/2010/12/29/nr.irpt.bpr.explosion.cnn Search crews found a second body in the ruins of a furniture store destroyed by a gas explosion in Wayne, Michigan, the city's fire chief said early Thursday. The body of a 54-year-old woman, a store employee, was pulled from...