A decades-old northern dream has taken a major step ahead after the panel that was assigned to review the Mackenzie Valley natural gas pipeline concluded that it should go forward. The Joint Review Panel, which has spent the past half-decade assessing the project, has concluded the $16.2-billion project “would deliver valuable and lasting overall benefits and avoid significant adverse environmental impacts.” But in a 679-page report, the panel lays out a number of measures designed to slow the pace of Arctic development the pipeline could spur, in hopes of avoiding undue ecological and social pressures.

I t would be just like the battle between David and Goliath – if David had changed his name to Groliath. A tiny Oakville, Ont.-based tech startup has scored a rare victory against Google Inc. GOOG-Q over a domain name the Web giant claimed was “confusingly similar” to its own.

B ank of Nova Scotia BNS-T is looking to buy stakes in banks in China, Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia, after settling on what bank executives believe will be a winning strategy for expansion in Asia. The bank said it will boost its interest in western China’s Xi’an City Commercial Bank to 20 per cent – the maximum allowed under Chinese regulations – from less than 2.5 per cent, in a move that is emblematic of its nascent plan for growth in the region. Despite the challenges that China’s banking market poses for foreign banks, such as strong government restrictions on their activities, Scotiabank is keen to operate in the world’s fastest-growing major economy because of the enormous potential it holds for financial institutions.

S ome time in July, the temperature in part of Oshawa, Ont., will fall to -30 Celsius in the middle of a howling blizzard. A half a day later, the forecast could call for a high of 60 degrees, with 95 per cent humidity. Luckily, these pockets of climate confusion will be confined to a relatively small indoor space: the new climatic wind tunnel at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.

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