Ritchie Bros set a new site record for bidder registrations both onsite and online at its unreserved industrial auction in Edmonton, Alberta on March 26 & 27, 2008. The public auction attracted more than 6,330 bidder registrations, 600 more than the site’s previous record from an unreserved auction held one year ago. The two-day auction [...]

Egyptian Naguib Sawiris has announced plans to participate in May’s auction of new wireless spectrum.
Weather Investments, controlled by Mr. Sawiris, is teaming with Canadian service provider Yak Communications Inc. to bid in the airwaves auction. A third partner in the syndicate is Novator, which has wireless investments throughout Europe.
The three companies submitted a $235-million [...]

The Canadian government said 30 companies plan to bid for wireless airwaves at its May auction, including new entrants to the market such as Quebecor Media Inc. and Manitoba Telecom Services Inc.
The list, released today by the Industry Canada agency, also includes current wireless providers Rogers Communications Inc., Telus Corp. and BCE Inc., which are [...]

Press Release
CALGARY, ALBERTA – Shaw Communications Inc. (TSX: SJR.B) (NYSE: SJR) announced today that it has filed a $400 million financial deposit with Industry Canada in connection with the upcoming Auction for Spectrum Licences for Advanced Wireless Services (“AWS”).
The financial deposit, in conjunction with the application Shaw previously filed, is a function of eligibility requirements [...]

Quebecor Media Inc. has filed an application as a new entrant to bid at the spectrum auction for Advanced Wireless Services. Quebecor Media submitted a deposit of $317 million, in the form of letters of credit, to Industry Canada.
Last November, Industry Minister Jim Prentice announced that a significant portion (40 megahertz) of spectrum to be [...]

Press Release
Shaw Communications Inc. (“Shaw”) (TSX: SJR.B) (NYSE: SJR) announced today that it has submitted an application to participate in Industry Canada’s Auction for Spectrum Licences for Advanced Wireless Services (“AWS”). This application is part of a public process in which Industry Canada will release the names of all parties who have applied to participate [...]

Animal-welfare officials are reported to have seized 27 dead horses as well as about 100 they found starving, but alive, from a ranch northeast of Edmonton.
The Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals also found deceased and neglected rabbits, chickens, ducks, goats, and sheep, that “were in need of care, proper feed, proper [...]

Several items produced by convicted killer Roch Theriault at the Dorchester Penitentiary in New Brunswick are up for auction on MurderAuction.com, which sells so called ‘murderabilia’.
On offer are oil paintings, pastels, signed handprints and poems written and coloured by Theriault, who’s serving a life sentence after being convicted of a brutal murder in 1993.
Theriault was [...]

It was the final day of selling for the 2007 crop and maybe the final day for the industry.
With crop size down to a seventh of what it was a decade ago, the tobacco board has given up trying to preserve the quota system and the anonymity provided by an auction system.
Now the Ontario Flue-Cured [...]

Louis Caron, a Montreal-area seller of rare books and manuscripts, told Canwest News Service that he acquired the letters last year at a sale in Britain. The previous owner, Caron said, was “not aware of the importance or content of the letters.
The letters, written on Windsor Castle stationery and stamped with the Queen’s Royal insignia, [...]