Stakeholders have approved a controversial but essential step in U.S. Steel Canada Inc.’s bankruptcy protection process, allowing the company to move ahead with a restructuring that could result in the sale of its Canadian operations, the Financial Post reported. After several days of intensive behind-the-scenes negotiations — “virtually 24 hours a day,” according to U.S. Steel Canada lawyer Paul Steep — an agreement was reached Wednesday on a $185-million loan that will allow the company to continue operations during the restructuring process. The loan will come from U.S.

The Ontario Superior Court has adjourned a hearing on U.S. Steel Canada Inc. under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, The Globe and Mail reported. The hearing has been postponed until Tuesday so lawyers can try to negotiate a deal on debtor-in-possession financing. The key issue is the plan by the steel maker’s parent, United States Steel Corp., to provide $185-million in debtor-in-possession financing for the Canadian unit. That plan is opposed by the Ontario government and the United Steelworkers union, which argue that it gives U.S.

U.S. Steel Canada says a proposal from its parent company and largest secured creditor to lend $185 million will let the insolvent steelmaker maintain its operations for another year and begin a process to sell its two Ontario operations, the Toronto Star reported on a Canadian Press story. According to court documents, company president and general manager Michael McQuade said the proposed debtor-in-possession (DIP) funding was “appropriate” with better terms for it than other creditor proceedings.

The Canadian unit of U.S. Steel Corp. filed for court protection from creditors to restructure its operations. The steelmaker applied to the Ontario Superior Court today for protection under Canada’s Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act, U.S. Steel Canada said today in a statement obtained by Bloomberg News. U.S. Steel, the biggest U.S. steelmaker by volume, will provide C$185 million ($169 million) in debtor-in-possession financing to the Canadian unit during the restructuring. “Despite substantial efforts over the past several years to make U.S.

Essar Steel Algoma Inc. will have sufficient liquidity to complete capital improvements and buy enough raw materials to get it through the winter after the Ontario Superior Court of Justice approved its restructuring plan, The Globe and Mail reported. “This plan provides for a comprehensive capital infusion, a substantial deleveraging of our balance sheet and the refinancing of all of Algoma’s senior secured debt,” Kalyan Ghosh, chief executive officer of the Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.-based company said in a statement.

Small base metals miner Mercator Minerals Ltd said on Tuesday it had filed for protection from its creditors in Canada and the United States, and the Toronto Stock Exchange suspended trading of its shares and began a delisting review, Reuters reported. The Vancouver-based company, which was hurt by a 2013 drop in copper and molybdenum prices and problems at its Mineral Park copper mine in Arizona, warned last week that it could be forced to file for creditor protection.

Retailers Bombay & Co. Inc., Bowring & Co. Inc. and Benix & Co. Inc. are operating under court protection from creditors while their owners look for a buyer or partner to help them survive a severe cash shortage and overwhelming debt, The Toronto Star reported. Bombay has 55 furnishings stores and Bowring has 57 housewares stores across Canada, employing about 1,240 people in total. Benix closed its final store in June.

Canadians from 35 to 44 years old added the most relative to other age groups to their debt loads as rising home prices led them to take out larger mortgages, according to a report by Royal Bank of Canada, Bloomberg News reported today. People in that age bracket had liabilities equal to 49 percent of their net worth in 2012, up from 31 percent for the same group in 1999, the report by Royal Bank economists Paul Ferley and Nathan Janzen said. The figures compare with 9 percent and 12 percent for people aged 55 to 64.

Bombardier Inc's unexpected aerospace restructuring announcement last week casts an uncomfortable light on the division's ongoing struggles, with credit rating firms uncertain about its longer term prospects. The restructuring, which was announced July 23, eight days before the release of second-quarter results on Thursday, is the latest bad news for the beleaguered unit, bruised in recent years by multiple delays in its cash-draining CSeries program and by shrinking market share for its existing aircraft portfolio.

Ponderosa Golf and Country Club in Peachland has money woes, again. The original Ponderosa fell into receivership years ago and was revived by Ponderosa Peachland Development, The Daily Courier reported. The new Ponderosa calls for a $1 billion master-planned community with an 18-hole course designed by Greg Norman (already open) surrounded by 2,300 homes. Showhomes are open and construction was under way on other homes. But work has halted with the new Ponderosa reaching an impasse with Toronto-based Romspen Investment Corp. over the $34.4 million Ponderosa owes Romspen.