Crated and buried Spitfires cause business split

Two business partners have fallen out over attempts to dig up about 60 pristine Spitfires that were put in storage and buried in Myanmar after World War II. Each is worth an estimated $2 million.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 17, 2012 | 3:13 pm

Man passes 1.7 carat diamond

A 52-year-old man detained in a dry cell at a police station in Windsor, Ont., while they wait for him to give up a $20,000 diamond, has finally passed the stone. He is accused of swallowing the diamond last week.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 17, 2012 | 2:31 pm

Timmins Gold hits 52-week low after Q1

Mexican miner Timmins Gold (TSX:TMM) has lost 22% for the year and hit a 52-week low of $1.58 after reporting Q1 on Tuesday.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 17, 2012 | 1:45 pm

Chilling real estate numbers from China

Business professor Patrick Chovanec, a firm believer that the Middle Kingdom is suffering from a real estate bubble, catalogues some of the latest economic numbers coming out of China and detects a severe contraction in the housing and commercial numbers.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 16, 2012 | 10:18 pm

Repelling sharks? Rare earth elements can handle that

Magnetically sensitive sharks don't like samarium, neodymium, and praseodymium, according to a report by BBC on a company that is experimenting with rare earth elements to protect swimmers from getting bit.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 16, 2012 | 5:38 pm

Mulcair’s resource sector attack is an electoral numbers game

NDP leader Thomas Mulcair recently criticized the resource sector for driving up the Canadian dollar and hurting manufacturing in Ontario, a Canadian Dutch disease.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 13, 2012 | 7:28 pm

Oil sands school bus: Alberta is picking up the tab for teacher site tours

Teachers are being offered all-paid, six-day field trips to experience the Alberta oil sands.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 13, 2012 | 6:12 pm

Lead poisoning epidemic due to artisanal mining

Gold bearing deposits in Zamfara contain high concentrations of lead.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 13, 2012 | 5:37 pm

Coal, corn syrup and terrorist attack: Biden ranks what is most likely to kill an American

Maybe the Republicans will have fun with this one.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 13, 2012 | 2:18 pm

Stopping the helium fire sale

A quick sell down of the US Government's stockpiles of helium in the 90s crowded out the private sector and left the US with dangerously low levels of a key industrial material.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 13, 2012 | 1:25 pm

Mulcair accuses the West of creating Dutch Disease, Clark says the NDP are speaking gobbledygook

British Columbia Premier Christy Clark pushed back after the NDP's new federal leader, Thomas Mulcair, said that the resource ramp up in Western Canada is coming at the expense of manufacturing jobs out east.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 12, 2012 | 10:21 pm

TSE drops 1.95 percent

Bad news slammed the markets today as worries about Europe caught up to traders.

Michael Allan McCrae | May 8, 2012 | 6:08 pm

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