The choice between availability and cost also applies to insurance, says Hicks. “Say you are at only 99 per cent availability.

Whereas the 2015-2016 period where copper was trading below $2.00 a pound ($4,400 a tonne) resulted in a “long duration grind into the cost curve”, today’s environment is more akin to the ...

This article was published more than 6 years ago. Some information may no longer be current. Ontario electricity costs are rising again. Not by much, just 0.3 per cent in July from a year earlier ...

But officials say the price and availability is an all too common misconception. Gillian Weintraub’s home is unusually quiet this summer -both boys are at camp. “It’s the independence.