Mining the moon ready to lift off by 2025

The Toronto Stock Exchange opened this morning moderately higher as commodity prices increased driven mainly by traders’ hopes of a U.S. housing market in recovery mode.

Rex Murphy takes his Sunday morning talk show, CBC Radio’s Cross Country Checkup, to Fort McMurray.

A roughneck can net $7,000 a month in northern Alberta, just don't drop anything down the hole.

George Paspalas, CEO of Aurizon Mines, stirred the rumour pot today, telling The Montreal Gazette the company is being approached by potential buyers:

Regulators have cleared Unit 2 of the Bruce A nuclear power plant in Ontario to restart after a nearly two-decade-long slumber.

Able-bodied welfare recipients in southern British Columbia will receive moving and training assistance so they can fill jobs in Northern B.C.

Canada’s North will be leading the country in economic growth over the next two years as a boom in mining projects takes hold, says the Conference Board of Canada’s Territorial Outlook-Winter 2012 study, reports CBC.

Aurizon Mines slipped 2% today on news that the gold miner is cutting production in 2012.

Northern B.C. is about to pass Metro Vancouver for economic growth, according to a new forecast by Central 1 Credit Union.