* The financial noose tightened on Monday around companies connected to the deadly Quebec derailment, with a hint that the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway could close shop.
The Quebec government issued a lawyer's letter demanding that the railway involved in the Lac-Megantic crash and two petroleum logistics companies foot the entire bill to clean up the environmental mess, the latest in a series of legal threats since the disaster. ()
* Authorities are beginning to piece together the events that led to an early morning crash that killed six teenagers on a rural Saskatchewan backroad, but it will be months before toxicology and accident reports bring their families definitive answers. ()
FINANCIAL POST
* U.S. President Barack Obama's latest smug comments on the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline suggest the Canadian project's odds of being approved under his watch are waning. Thankfully, Canada hasn't stood still while the U.S. President dithered. So many new pipeline options have emerged that Keystone XL's relevance is diminishing as each one gains momentum. ()
* The government has set its course on wireless telecom policy and is unlikely to waver despite an aggressive and coordinated public campaign for change by Canada's big three cellular providers, observers say. ()
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