(Reuters) – Chesapeake Energy , battling a governance crisis and financial strain, said Chief Executive Aubrey McClendon is leaving the company on Ap ril 1. McClendon, 53, who co-founded the company in 1989, was stripped of his title as chairman last year and big shareholders took control of the U.S. oil and gas company's board in June. (Reporting By Anna Driver; editing by Carol Bishopric) Defending champion Nedohin headlines deep field at next month's Scotties
There will be rising stars, familiar faces and veteran curlers in the field at next month’s Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Exclusive: JPMorgan bet against itself in "Whale" trade
NEW YORK (Reuters) – There is a new twist in the London Whale trading scandal that cost JPMorgan Chase $6.2 billion in trading losses last year. Some of the firm's own traders bet against the very derivatives positions placed by its chief investment office, said three people familiar with the matter. The U.S. Senate Permanent Committee on Investigations, which launched an inquiry into the trading loss last fall, is looking into the how different divisions of the bank wound up on opposite sides of the same trade, said one of the people familiar with the matter. … Torso found in Kitchener, Ont., garbage bin identified as 24-year-old woman
KITCHENER, Ont. – Police say a torso found in a garbage bin in Kitchener, Ont., last Saturday has been identified as that of a 24-year-old woman.
Ontario-based bodyguard in Gadhafi plot ordered out of Canada by IRB
TORONTO – The Ontario-based security contractor who worked for Moammar Gadhafi’s son during the Libyan uprising has been ordered out of Canada.
What does the world expect from newly confirmed Secretary of State John Kerry?
Hillary Rodham Clinton has been one of the US's most popular and peripatetic secretaries of state - logging nearly 1 million miles in four years and becoming a household name from Panama to Pakistan.
The fight to ferment: law pits small businesses against Nova Scotia Liquor Corp.
HALIFAX – A Nova Scotia law dictating where hobbyists can make their own wine and beer has uncorked a torrent of condemnation among observers who say the provincial government is picking on the little guy. Calgary Stampeders re-sign kick returner/receiver Larry Taylor
CALGARY – The Calgary Stampeders have re-signed kick returner/receiver Larry Taylor.
Harper rejects Green claims of Environment, Natural Resources merger
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper is dismissing claims by the Green party that the government plans to fold Environment Canada into the Natural Resources Department.
Senate confirms Kerry nomination for State Dept.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Senate has confirmed Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry as the next secretary of state. Glacier National Park concession's contract calls for sidelining half of the park's red buses
WEST GLACIER, Mont. – Supporters of Glacier National Park and fans of its iconic red tour buses are upset that the park’s new concessions contract calls for replacing half of the buses with alternative fuel vehicles by 2029.
Blind dissident urges global pressure on China over rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Blind Chinese a ctivist Chen Guangcheng urged the United States on Tuesday not to let business concerns prevent it from pressing China over human rights, saying America must never "offer the smallest compromise" on its principles. Chen is a self-taught legal advocate whose escape from house arrest last April and subsequent refuge in the U.S. Embassy XXX embarrassed China and led to a diplomatic tussle that ended with him leaving China to study in New York. … Boeing ramps up 737 production to 38 a month to meet demand for bestselling jetliner
RENTON, Wash. – Boeing has begun work on the first of the 737s that will roll out of the Renton factory at a rate of 38 per month.
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