Hudbay CEO David Garofalo tells AMM.com that he expects “somewhat of a surplus” of copper on the market in 2015 as new mines start opening.
He adds that copper should be in a deficit in 2016 because demand will outstrip investments made by senior mining companies, according to the website.
Hudbay predicts its own copper output will rise 570 per cent between 2013 and 2015 as its massive Constancia project in Peru enters production, according to the Seeking Alpha stock market news website.
Sentenced
Eighteen months in jail is the sentence for a man charged with criminal negligence in a Pelican Narrows house fire that claimed the life of a 10-year-old girl last year, CTV Saskatoon reports.
Darryl Sewap had also been charged with arson, but that charge was dropped after he pleaded guilty to criminal negligence causing death, CTV reports.
CTV identified the victim of the fire as Denasia Highway.
Appeal denied
A biker found guilty of murdering a rival gang leader in an apparent power struggle over northern Manitoba’s drug trade has lost an appeal in Manitoba’s highest court, the Winnipeg Free Press reports.
Sean Heickert was convicted last year of first-degree murder in the 2007 shooting death of Bekim Zeneli in Thompson. Zeneli was the founder of the LHS (loyalty, honour, silence) gang, according to the Free Press.
Trailer fire
A Tim Hortons trailer that had been serving as a mobile restaurant in Thompson during renovations to the permanent facility caught fire near Wabowden on its trip south on Highway 6 last week.
RCMP received a report of a trailer attached to a vehicle on fire about 10 kilometres north of Wabowden last Friday afternoon, Sept. 12.
It was not known whether there were injuries. The cause of the fire was also unknown.
Call reignited
Churchill MP Niki Ashton is once again reigniting her call for a national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women.
“This government has a responsibility to help end the violence against Indigenous women,” Ashton, who is also the NDP critic for the Status of Women, said Monday in the House of Commons. “Many have shared a social media campaign with the chilling slogan: ‘Am I Next.’”
A news release from Ashton said the NDP would call a national inquiry into the matter within 100 days of forming government.
Tentative deal
Nickel giant Vale and United Steelworkers Local 6166 announced last week they have reached a tentative agreement on a new five-year contract.
The Steelworkers had scheduled meetings to present the offer to its members. The ratification vote was to be held Monday. No details on the offer were made public.
USW Local 6166 represents about 1,100 production and maintenance employees in Vale’s operations in Thompson.
Shooter arrested
RCMP have arrested a man after shots were fired at several homes, vehicles and into the air on the northern Saskatchewan First Nation of Sucker River Reserve, reports The Canadian Press.
The shots were fired this past Saturday, Sept. 13. No one was injured.
Solid debut
Frank Busch, an Aboriginal author who grew up in northern Manitoba, is earning positive reviews for his new debut novel, Grey Eyes.
As a review in The Globe and Mail notes, the book opens “with the rare birth of a Grey-Eyed boy in the Nehiyawak village of Nisichawayasihk” in what today is northern Manitoba.
The Globe calls the novel “an intricate portrait of pre-contact life and a suspenseful page-turner that builds towards a dramatic and moving finish.”
The 30-something Busch now lives in BC.
RC…MP?
A former Mountie who spent time policing the streets of Pukatawagan hopes to win a seat in the House of Commons.
Ray Piche, 50, has been acclaimed as the Liberal MP candidate in the riding of Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette for the 2015 election, reports The Neepawa Press.
The riding is currently held by Robert Sopuck of the Conservatives.
iUpgrade
SaskTel will offer iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus, touted as the biggest advancements in iPhone history, starting Friday at SaskTel retail store locations and select SaskTel Authorized Apple iPhone Dealers.
“We always experience high demand for Apple devices and we are confident SaskTel customers will enjoy using the remarkable new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus on SaskTel’s leading network,” said Ron Styles, president and CEO of SaskTel.
Money saver
A consulting firm’s interim review on the merger of the Manitoba Liquor Control Commission and the Manitoba Lotteries Corporation into a single Crown corporation reports net savings from the move have increased to over $36 million.
The NDP government enacted the merger in 2012, and “results continue to be overwhelmingly positive,” said Ron Lemieux, minister responsible for Manitoba Liquor and Lotteries.
A welcome break
Saskatchewan Finance Minister Ken Krawetz welcomes the federal government’s recently announced Small Business Job Credit.
Krawetz said a 15 per cent reduction in EI costs “is significant for small businesses that are providing jobs and helping drive our economy.”
There are 40,475 small businesses in Saskatchewan, defined as businesses with one to 49 employees, according to the most recent data.
