Angela Haywood, the 1998 winner of The Sovereign Award, which each year recognizes superior achievement by a graduate of the Risk and Insurance Management Program at the University of Calgary, is congratulated by (left) P.A. Parkin, Sovereign General’s vice president of branch operations and (right) M.J. Goertzen, Sovereign’s Alberta branch manager.
The federal government is contributing $45 million to help prevent landslides along the Whitehorse Escarpment with the aim to protect the land under Whitehorse International Airport and its access road to the Yukon’s capital. The escarpment has been plagued by landslides in the last several years, prompting the construction of a protective barrier along the […]
By Jason Contant | May 7, 2024
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Ontario’s auto insurance regulator is allowing insurers to explore different ways to rate for territories other than the standard — and rigid — postal code method, but the regulator won’t be banning territorial rates, the regulator’s top exec confirmed Monday. Mark White, CEO of Ontario’s Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA), addressed a question about the […]
By David Gambrill | March 4, 2024
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VICTORIA – Earthquakes Canada says a 4.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded Sunday afternoon and public reports poured in from hundreds of kilometres away from the event’s epicentre. John Cassidy, a seismologist with Natural Resources Canada, says people over a “very wide region” of the province have reported feeling the earthquake, which hit just before 3:30 […]
By Jason Contant | December 18, 2023
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