Rogers Communications Inc (RCIAF): * ROGERS SAYS AWARE OF POWER OUTAGES IMPACTING SERVICES IN PARTS OF ATLANTIC CANADA DUE TO HURRICANE FIONA - TWEET. * ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS SAYS AWARE OF POWER OUTAGES IMPACTING SERVICES IN PARTS OF ATLANTIC CANADA DUE TO HURRICANE FIONA - TWEET Source text: https://bit.ly/3UzD8I5.
Powerful storm Fiona ripped into eastern Canada on Saturday with hurricane-force winds, forcing evacuations, knocking down trees and powerlines, and reducing many homes on the coast to "just a pile of rubble in the ocean." The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the center of the storm, downgraded to Post-Tropical Cyclone Fiona, was now in the Gulf of St. Lawrence after racing through Nova Scotia.
Powerful storm Fiona ripped into eastern Canada on Saturday with hurricane-force winds, forcing evacuations, knocking down trees and powerlines, and reducing many homes on the coast to "just a pile of rubble in the ocean." The U.S. National Hurricane Center said the center of the storm, downgraded to Post-Tropical Cyclone Fiona, was now in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and losing some steam.
Eastern Canada on Saturday braced for what could become one of the most severe storms in the country's history as Hurricane Fiona barreled toward Nova Scotia nearly a week after devastating parts of the Caribbean.
Canada's resource-heavy main stock index posted its biggest decline in more than three months on Friday and the Canadian dollar extended its recent decline as oil prices tumbled and investors grew more worried about the global economic outlook.
* TSX ends down 521.70 points, or 2.8%, at 18,480.98. * Energy tumbles 7.8%; oil settles 5.7% lower. * Canadian dollar hits a 2-year low at 1.3612. * Canadian retail sales fall 2.5% in July. By Fergal Smith.
* TSX falls 525.42 points, or 2.8%, at 18,477.26. * Energy tumbles 7.5%; oil settles 5.7% lower. * Canadian dollar hits a 2-year low at 1.3612. * Canadian retail sales fall 2.5% in July. By Fergal Smith.
Canadian mining firm Trevali will close its Perkoa zinc mine in Burkina Faso, a company official told Reuters on Friday, following a flood at the mine in April that killed eight workers. The miners drowned in the underground passages of the mine in Sanguie province after unexpected torrential rain during the West African country's dry season.
OTTAWA - Canada recorded a C$6.33 billion budget surplus for the first four months of the 2022/23 fiscal year, helped by higher tax revenues and the ending of coronavirus support measures, the finance ministry said on Friday. By comparison, Canada posted a C$47.33 billion deficit in the period from April to July 2021.
Hurricane Fiona pounded the Atlantic island of Bermuda with heavy rain and winds on Friday as it tracked northward toward eastern Canada, where it threatens to become one of the most severe storms in Canadian history.
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