Delayed N.D. wind project has new owner (The Bismarck Tribune)

Construction on a new 149-megawatt wind farm in north central North Dakota should begin this fall, a company spokesman said, almost three years after state regulators approved the project's location north of Rugby.

Liberals to JobWave: You're Fired (in News) (The Tyee)

$8 million job training contract cancelled; work goes to B.C. competitor.

Harper doesn't rule out recession (The Globe and Mail)

But PM says it would be one only in a technical sense; Statscan to report on second-quarter GDP Friday morning

Queen Elizabeth Hotel workers on strike (CBC Montreal)

More than 600 employees at Montreal's landmark Queen Elizabeth Hotel went on strike Thursday morning to protest what they call a lack of progress in contract talks.

Harper doesn't rule out recession (The Globe and Mail)

INUVIK — Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who is expected to call an election as early as next week, did not rule out the possibility the Canadian economy may have slipped into recession but said Thursday that if so it would only be in a technical sense.