McConnell Returns To Senate After Three-Month Health Absence

McConnell is back on the Senate floor for the first time since June, ending an absence that drew calls from Kentucky’s governor for him to resign.
Power Outage Shuts Down ExxonMobil’s Joliet Refinery as BP Whiting Also Slows

The outage knocked out a plant that supplies 6% of Midwest refining capacity, just as BP’s Whiting refinery runs its own planned maintenance nearby.
Seventh MLA Defects To New BC Party As Conservative Caucus Keeps Shrinking

Donegal Wilson has become the seventh MLA to join Peter Milobar’s new party, days after saying she planned to sit as an Independent instead.
Oracle Starts New Layoff Round Six Months After Its Last One

The company sent laid-off staff a termination email nearly identical to the one it used in March, asking them to hand over a personal address before cutting their system access.
Bell Charts Path to 1.2-Gigawatt AI Hub in Saskatchewan

A pathway to a 1.2-gigawatt Canadian AI infrastructure hub anchors Bell Canada’s newly expanded data centre plans in Saskatchewan, positioning the province as a national leader in artificial intelligence and data sovereignty. Two power streams add up to that 1.2-gigawatt target. The 300 megawatts already drawn from the provincial grid stays in place, and on […]
ISS Blasts TNR Gold Governance but Rejects Full Activist Takeover

Institutional Shareholder Services has recommended replacing half of TNR Gold board while retaining Executive Chairman Kirill Klip, handing neither management nor activist shareholder Eucalyptus Resources the clean endorsement each sought ahead of a September 22 shareholder vote. According to disclosures from both sides on Monday, ISS recommended a four-member board consisting of incumbent directors Klip and […]
Trump Backs Crypto Ethics Rewrite That Could Trigger Blind Trust Rule

President Donald Trump’s late concession on crypto ethics would do more than limit future token launches. The final Senate draft of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act creates a $15,000 threshold for certain crypto-business equity interests and adds a state-level enforcement backstop, potentially bringing parts of Trump’s own digital-asset holdings inside rules he agreed to […]
OnGold Outlines 2.5 Million Ounces At Monument Bay In New Resource Estimate

ONGold Resources (TSXV: ONAU) has released an updated mineral resource estimate for its Monument Bay gold project in northeastern Manitoba. The open-pit constrained estimate, prepared by SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc. at a 0.20 g/t gold cut-off and a US$3,000 per ounce gold price, is as follows: That places roughly 80% of the contained gold in […]
Northmin Reports 93% Silver Recovery From Tynagh West Pond Tailings Testwork

Northmin Corporation (TSXV: NMB) reported silver recoveries of 93% from leach testwork on tailings at its wholly owned Tynagh project in Ireland, alongside 97% zinc, 89% lead and 81% copper. The work was completed by Loop Hydrometallurgy Operations Pty Ltd. as part of a tailings re-treatment scoping study, using representative material drawn from the West […]
PTX Metals Back in the Field at W2 With 5,000 Metre Program and Concurrent Soil Sampling

PTX Metals (TSXV: PTX) has restarted a 5,000 metre diamond drilling program at its W2 copper-nickel-PGE project in northwestern Ontario, resuming field work that was paused in January to allow for further discussions with First Nations communities connected to the project area. The drilling is concentrated in the underexplored Central area of the property and […]