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 | May 9, 2008 8:21:00 AM MST
| | Pure announces acquisition of Price Brothers (UK) Ltd. for US$3.25 million (Pure-Technologies) | CALGARY _ Infrastructure monitoring company Pure Technologies Ltd. (TSXV:PUR) says it has bought Price Brothers (UK) Ltd., a British company, for US$3.25 million.The seller is Hanson Pressure Pipe Inc., Pure said in a release Friday.Price Brothers is a specialty engineering company active in the water resources sector. Since 1982, the company has been providing specialty engineerin...
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 | May 8, 2008 7:42:00 PM MST
| | Tree Island reports Q1 profit of $534,000, down from $3.4 million (Tree-Island) | VANCOUVER _ Tree Island Wire Income Fund (TSX:TIL.UN) saw its first-quarter profit drop compared with a year ago as revenue grew 18 per cent.The maker of nails and wire for the construction sector said Thursday it earned a profit of $534,000 or two cents per unit for the three months ended March 31 compared with a profit of $3.4 million or 15 cents per unit a year ago.Sales in the...
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 | May 8, 2008 8:26:00 AM MST
| | Housing starts down in April from March, up for Q1 over last year (CMHC-Housing) | OTTAWA _ The seasonally adjusted annual rate of housing starts dropped to 213,900 units in April from 243,000 in March.Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., attributed most of the decrease to a drop in multiple starts after near-record highs in March and February.For the first four months of 2008, actual starts in rural and urban areas combined were up about 3.3 per cent compared to t...
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| May 8, 2008 4:25:00 AM MST
| | Dump truck drivers plan rolling protest on Toronto highways over safety, wages (Dump-Truck-Protest) | TORONTO _ About 150 dump trucks are scheduled to stage a rolling protest later today on the major highways encircling Toronto.The Ontario Dump Truck Association says the protest will begin after the morning rush hour at about 10 a.m. and last two to three hours.Drivers are upset over safety issues such as overloaded trucks and say they are often forced to carry far more than they s...
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| May 7, 2008 4:17:00 PM MST
| | Vicwest Income Fund first quarter profits soar to $1.2 million on record sales (Vicwest) | OAKVILLE, Ont. Building products company Vicwest Income Fund (TSX:VIC.UN) reported its first quarter profits soared more than tenfold on record revenues as the company cashed in on sales of grain and fertilizer storage containers in a robust farm economy.The Toronto-area company reported Wednesday it earned about $1.2 million or 6.5 cents a unit for the three months ended March 31. That co...
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| May 7, 2008 3:44:00 PM MST
| | Sun Gro Horticulture Income Fund reports Q1 loss of $1.4 million (Sun-Gro) | VANCOUVER _ Sun Gro Horticulture Income Fund (TSX:GRO.UN) said Wednesday it lost $1.4 million, compared with a profit of $4.8 million a year ago, hurt by the weak U.S. dollar and economy.The peat moss grower said the loss amounted to six cents per unit on $60.4 million in revenue for the three months ended March 31. That compared with a profit of 22 cents per unit on $66.7 million in reven...
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| May 7, 2008 6:47:00 AM MST
| | Stella Jones Q1 profit slides to $5.3 million from year ago $6.1 million (Stella-Jones) | MONTREAL _ Utility pole and railway tie maker Stella-Jones Inc. (TSX:SJ) reported Wednesday a first-quarter profit of $5.3 million, down from a year-ago $6.1 million, while sales rose 6.8 per cent.The Montreal-based company said it's earnings amounted to 42 cents per share, down from 48 cents per share in the first quarter of 2007."We are satisfied with our results for the first qu...
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| May 6, 2008 6:15:00 PM MST
| | Bird Construction Income Fund reports Q1 profit of $9.2 million (Bird-Construction) | TORONTO _ Bird Construction Income Fund (TSX:BDT.UN) reported a sharp increase in quarterly profit on Tuesday as revenue improved 65 per cent.The income trust said it earned $9.2 million or 66 cents per unit on $213.5 million in revenue for the three months ended March 31.That compared with a profit of $2.9 million or 21 cents per unit on $129.1 million in revenue for the first thr...
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 | May 6, 2008 4:30:00 PM MST
| | Aecon reports Q1 profit of $276,000 on $302 million in revenue (Aecon) | TORONTO _ Aecon Group Inc. (TSX: ARE) reported Tuesday a first-quarter profit of $276,000 compared with a loss of $3 million a year ago.The engineering firm said the profit amounted to a penny per share on $302 million in revenue. That compared with a loss of eight cents per share on $242 million in revenue a year ago.Aecon said the 25 per cent increase in revenue was due to increa...
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