Press Digest: Canada - May 17

Lomiko Metals

17/05/2024 10:16

May 17 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories
from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified
these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
    
    
    THE GLOBE AND MAIL
    ** Ontario cobalt developer Fortune Minerals  FT.TO  and
Quebec graphite exploration company Lomiko Metals  LMR.V  have
been awarded about $32.4 million in combined funding, as U.S.
and Canada attempt to bolster critical-minerals supply chain in
the face of an escalating trade war with China.
    
    ** Canadian food and pharmacy retailer Loblaw Companies
 L.TO  has dropped its earlier opposition and agreed to sign on
to the new rules aimed at smoothing relations between retailers
and their suppliers.

    ** Canada's most heavily used transit system Toronto Transit
Commission is looking at the possibility of its first strike in
more than a decade as soon as early next month.    
  
       
    

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