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Oil-sands explorers hit 20% of ‘output’

Bloomberg At least 20% of shut-in Canadian production is being restored, just months after the price crash forced producers in Alberta’s oil sands to slash up to 1 million barrels a day of output. Cenovus Energy Inc, Husky Energy Inc and Baytex Energy Corp are among companies that have resumed shut-in production as prices rise above $40 a barrel. Imperial ...

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Facebook, Zuckerberg disappoint once again

Facebook Inc still doesn’t get it. A widely anticipated meeting between the social media giant and the civil rights groups behind the recent Facebook ad boycott — including the Anti-Defamation League, NAACP and Color of Change — did not go well. The New York Times reported CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg met for about an hour on a ...

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Fight over virus vaccine will get ugly

For most people, a vaccine against the coronavirus can’t come soon enough, as it will be the only tolerable way to achieve herd immunity. So it’s encouraging that more than 100 drug candidates in 12 countries are in development, and eight are already entering clinical trials. To accelerate the process, some people are heroically volunteering to expose themselves to infection. ...

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