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Corporate Responsibility

  • Grocery workers should be properly paid during pandemic, Trudeau says

    Grocery store employees who continued to work during the COVID-19 pandemic are “heroes'' and should be properly compensated, said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Friday.

  • 7-Eleven shares best practices for dealing with COVID-19 crisis

    Canadian convenience, car wash and gas businesses have worked hard to keep employees and customers safe during COVID-19.

  • BDC ready to roll with loans for oil and gas companies hit hard by COVID 19

    Mid-sized Canadian businesses that are strapped for cash because of COVID-19 can now apply through their own banks to get loans of up to $60 million from the federal government.

  • McCowan's latest freestanding hand sanitizing station puts customer safety first

    In an effort to build customer confidence and stop the spread of COVID-19, sturdy hand sanitizing stations are an essential line of defence for c-store, gas and car wash sites.
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  • Conagra announces Mrs. Butterworth's brand review

    In the wake of increased scrutiny and accountability around the Black Lives Matter movement, Conagra is conducting a review of its famous Mrs.
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  • British Columbia expands gas-price tracking

    Fuel prices will be tracked in four additional communities in B.C.
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  • Unions call on retailers to make pandemic-related wage premiums permanent

    Unions representing essential workers at some of Canada's major retailers are pushing back against the decision to eliminate wage premiums that were put in place to compensate employees for working during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Trans Mountain pipeline restarts after light crude spills in Abbotsford, B.C.

    Trans Mountain says oil is flowing again through its pipeline after as much 190,000 litres of light crude spilled from a pumping facility in Abbotsford, B.C.A statement from the Crown-owned company says the pipeline was restarted Sunday afternoon.The line was shut down early Saturday when an alarm was triggered at the Sumas pump station.An investigation continues but Trans Mountain linked the cause to a fitting on a 2.5-centimetre pipe, and says the oil was contained, recovered and slated for disposal.A statement posted late Sunday by the Environment Ministry says Trans Mountain's is co-ordinating the response at the site, along with environmental and emergency contractors.The ministry says there has been no reported impact to groundwater, but monitoring continues.Sumas First Nation Chief Dalton Silver said Saturday's spill marked the fourth time in 15 years that the pipeline has spilled oil on their land.He said in a statement that it happened just south of a cultural and burial ground of great significance to his people.“Our main concern is for the cleanup of this spill and preventing further impacts to our territory.
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