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CANADA News, Oct 11, 2011


Canada gets a new Kindle, but the Fire is out
Ottawa Citizen
But the only one of the four available for shipping to Canada is the most basic one, the Kindle. It lists at $79 on the Amazon United States site but that's for a US-only version with sponsored screen savers and special offers that show up on the ...
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Air Canada Flight Attendants Face Labor Minister Signaling Ban on Strike
Bloomberg
By Heather Perlberg - Tue Oct 11 04:01:00 GMT 2011 Air Canada (AC/A) flight attendants are heading for a showdown with the government as Labor Minister Lisa Raitt signaled she would move to block a strike threatened for Oct. 13 at the nation's largest...
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Canada commits $10 million to help Libya recover missing weapons
Toronto Star
TRIPOLI, LIBYA—Canada is committing $10 million to help Libya recover and secure all arms stockpiles, including deposed dictator Moammar Gadhafi's unaccounted for weapons of mass destruction. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird made the announcement ...
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Canadian education awaits a hard lesson, watchdog warns
Globe and Mail
As it prepares to close this spring, the Canadian Council on Learning, a non-profit that aimed to be Canada's federal education watchdog, leaves a dark prognosis for Canadian students. Emerging economies are surging ahead, and Canada's ministries of ...
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Globe and Mail
Keldgaard powers upset of US
London Free Press
By Jim Cressman The London Free Press The 25-year-old Londoner smacked a three-run homer in the second inning on Sunday and later added an RBI-double to cap a three-run ninth to power Canada to a 6-1 upset over defending champion United States at the ...
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Oil shifts Canada's centre of gravity
Financial Times
By Bernard Simon and Sylvia Pfeifer It is hard to imagine human-rights activists such as the Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu and Ireland's Mairead Maguire and Betty Williams letting off steam against a country as inoffensive as Canada. ...
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Financial Times
Canadian stadium holds lessons for Metrodome
Finance and Commerce
Could a recently renovated Metrodome-like stadium in Canada be a blueprint for the Vikings' needs? In late September, the Vancouver, BC-based BC Pavilion Corp. unveiled its BC Place stadium, home of the British Columbia Lions football team. ...
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Finance and Commerce
Kowall: No 'real warm feeling' about new bridge to Canada
The Detroit News
Lansing — A vote this week on a new bridge to Canada looked less likely Tuesday after a key senator said "it would be difficult at best" to muster enough votes to get the bills out of committee. "There's not been a real warm feeling," about the New ...
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Canada not scared of Puerto Rico
Toronto Sun
By Kurtis Larson ,Toronto Sun Dwayne De Rosario could become Canada's career leading scorer with two goals on Tuesday night. (AFP) Four points clear of second-place St. Kitts and Nevis following a dominant Group D performance in St. Lucia Friday night, ...
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Indian Engineering Prepares A Big Show in Canada
Press Information Bureau (press release)
It will be the biggest show of Indian engineering companies in Canada and a major effort to promote 'Brand India' in the North American continent. Shri Anup Wadhawan, Joint Secretary with the Ministry of Commerce and Mr. Aman Chadha, Chairman EEPC...
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99 Cents Stores Agrees To $1.55B Offer From Ares, Canada Pension Fund
Wall Street Journal
99 Cents Only Stores (NDN) agreed to be taken private by private-equity firm Ares Management LLC and the Canada Pension Investment Board in a deal valued at about $1.55 billion, ending months of speculation about who would win the dollar-store chain....
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For disenchanted liberals, Obama may still be the only choice
MiamiHerald.com
By LESLEY CLARK WASHINGTON -- Environmentalists spent a week outside the White House courting arrest and bellowing disappointment at President Barack Obama for considering a pipeline that would expand the flow of oil from Canada. ...
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Canada Housing Starts Jump 7.3% In September From August
NASDAQ
TORONTO -(Dow Jones)- Canadian housing starts rose 7.3% to an annual rate of 205900 in September, mainly due to an increase in multiple starts, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Tuesday. Results were well ahead of the 189000 rate analysts surveyed ...
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Canada Rare Earths Resumes Drilling At Goeland Rare Earth Project, Quebec ...
MarketWatch (press release)
Canada Rare Earths is a growth company focused on the exploration and development of rare earth elements led by its 100% owned Goeland Rare Earths Project within the Montviel carbonatite complex, Montviel Township Quebec, immediately adjacent to ...
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Alberta should fund safe, reliable birth control
Edmonton Journal
In 2001, Health Canada approved a new birth-control device. It's called Essure. It involves inserting tiny springs inside a women's Fallopian tubes. Within three months, the body creates tissue around the microinserts, blocking the tubes and rendering ...
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Sinopec Gains Canada Shale Gas in $2.1 Billion Daylight Deal
BusinessWeek
“Sinopec made a number of oil-sands acquisitions, and this is probably the most gas they've acquired in western Canada,” Neil Beveridge, a Hong Kong-based analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., said by telephone today. The oil and gas industry accounts...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX set to open higher in catch-up after holiday
Reuters
Air Canada : The Canadian government was considering its options on Monday but made it clear that a strike at Air Canada would not be tolerated after flight attendants at the country's biggest carrier issued a 72-hour strike notice. ...
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Royal Bank of Canada in Talks to Buy Out Dexia in Custody Joint Venture
Bloomberg
By Sean B. Pasternak and Stephanie Bodoni - Tue Oct 11 11:38:53 GMT 2011 Royal Bank of Canada (RY), the country's largest bank, is in talks with Dexia SA (DEXB) to buy the 50 percent stake in RBC Dexia Investor Services it doesn't already own. ...
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PRESS DIGEST - CANADA - Oct 11
Reuters
As its flight attendants prepare to strike this week, Air Canada finds itself squeezed between staff in revolt and consumers demanding lower fares, casting a cloud over the country's largest airline. - A supermarket fashion line from Canada has popped ...
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Healthy Chocolate? Ontario Food Cluster Tastes Trade and Investment Potential ...
MarketWatch (press release)
COLOGNE, GERMANY, Oct 11, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- ANUGA: A week after Forbes Magazine rated Canada as the world's top country for business, the Ontario Food Cluster is bringing its business investment and innovation message to Anuga 2011 in ...
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UN May Seek to Extend Kyoto Pact Without Canada, Japan, Russia
BusinessWeek
By Mathew Carr and Alex Morales Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- United Nations emission-reduction negotiators in Durban, South Africa, next month may seek to extend the Kyoto Protocol, excluding Canada, Japan and Russia, said Christiana Figueres, ...
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Canada Building to live again
Winnipeg Free Press
KEN GIGLIOTTI / WINNIPEG FREE PRESS The Canada Building will provide Manitoba Housing and Community Development with 71100 square feet of office space. THE deal the province has struck with the owners of the Canada Building will have a ripple effect on ...
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Canada's Dollar Weakens as Europe Debt Concern Crimps Risk-Asset Demand
Bloomberg
By Chris Fournier - Tue Oct 11 12:26:34 GMT 2011 Canada's dollar depreciated versus its US counterpart as concern that European officials may fail to halt the region's sovereign-debt crisis before it spreads to banks cut demand for higher-yielding ...
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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ steady ahead of Slovak vote
Reuters
* C$ at C$1.0312 vs US$, or 96.97 US cents * Bond prices fall across curve By Claire Sibonney TORONTO, Oct 11 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar was firmer against its US counterpart on Tuesday morning, catching up from a risk rally on Monday, ...
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Afghan teacher trainers come to Canada to learn
Montreal Gazette
After facing many obstacles, Heggie got the project off the ground and the four Afghan women landed in Canada last week. They attended a women's conference in Toronto before heading to Saskatchewan, spending time at the legislature before driving to ...
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CM, deputy to visit Canada and US to woo investors
Times of India
RANCHI: Chief minister Arjun Munda and his deputy Hemant Soren will embark on a 10-day tour to Canada and the US at a time when the state is drawing flak from the Centre for poor implementation of development programmes especially in rural and ...
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Tax-News.com: Canada Expands Its Asian Trade Framework ...
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by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington. 10 October 2011. Canada has signed a series of key trade-related deals with Asian countries, designed to increase trade and investment ties with the region. The agreements were inked during a ...
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Montrealers bid farewell to Canada's oldest ... - Breaking News
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Reasons to Fear Canada - Pundit Kitchen: Lol News and Lol Sarah ...
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The US invaded the British colony that later became Canada. That colony surrendered to the US, and the US burned its capital in the Battle of York. Two years later the British sent a contingent of troops to back up their colonial troops and they ...
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Tonight: Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada - the Book ...
By Debra Ross
His critically acclaimed first novel, Drive-by Saviours, was longlisted for a 2011 ReLit Award and Canada Reads 2011. He is the Sustainable City Columnist for The Coast (www.thecoast.ca) and a writer/editor for CBC News Online. ...
Sustainability News @ Dal
SA Man Loses Bid to Stay in Canada :: American Renaissance News
Daily News, October 9, 2011. South African Brandon Huntley has lost his latest bid to stay in Canada, after applying for refugee status, the Sunday Times reported. On Wednesday Canada's Federal Court of Appeal dismissed his appeal ...
American Renaissance News
Canada's home building steams ahead | Economy | News ...
Home construction rose more than expected in September, led by multiple-units activity, according to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp.
FP Top Stories List
Cleavage Becomes a Big, Bouncy Issue in Canada's Politics ...
By chessnwine
Instead, the 45-year-old politician's navy blue v-neck dress and khaki blazer was the subject of ire from one political pundit, which set off a fiery debate on Twitter that poured over into Canadian newspapers and news programs. “Is Premier ...
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Ecologists urge Obama to stop Canada-US pipeline - Care2 News ...
By Cal Mendelsohn
Environmental activists Friends of the Earth Friday called on US President Barack Obama to overturn a controversial $7 billion oil pipeline project to run from Canada to the United States.
Care2 News Network
Babel: Canada relocation lowers our prices | Game Development ...
Shift away from UK 'passes savings onto the customer', outsource firm says.
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Union leadership under scrutiny after Air Canada attendants reject ...
TORONTO - An escalating labour dispute at Air Canada is throwing the relationship between a union an. ... Winnipeg Free Press > Canada > Breaking News > Union leadership under scrutiny after Air Canada attendants reject second deal ...
Winnipeg Free Press: Breaking News
XE.com - PRESS DIGEST - CANADA - Oct 11
The following are top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
XE Forex News
Air Canada strike looming again
Air Canada flight attendants rejected the management's contract offer for the second time and served a 72-hour strike notice. Government says no way, Jose.
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Canada News: How the Conservatives blew it - thestar.com
Arguably, the defining narrative of Ontario's 2011 provincial election was how the Tories lost their lead and let Dalton McGuinty win again.
www.thestar.com/.../1066913--how-the-conservatives-blew-it
Interview: Who's a bully? - Canada - CBC News
CBC News speaks to Tracy Vaillancourt, Canada Research Chair in children's mental health and violence prevention at the University of Ottawa, about the ...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/.../f-bullying-q-and-a.html
'Unprecedented' ozone hole opens over Canadian Arctic | News ...
A massive Arctic ozone hole opened up over the Northern Hemisphere for the first time this year, an international research team reported Sunday.
news.nationalpost.com/.../unprecedented-ozone-hole-opens-ov...
BBC News - Climate change 'could hit Canada GDP' - report
Climate change could cost Canada around 1% of its GDP by 2050 in environmental damage, a government panel finds.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-15119210
Keystone pipeline called a bad deal - Canada News - Castanet.net
National Wildlife Federation President and CEO Larry Schweiger, accompanied by other pipeline opponents, speaks during a news conference at the National ...
www.castanet.net/news/.../Keystone-pipeline-called-a-bad-deal
Mystery of Canada's missing salmon continues : Nature News
Nature - the world's best science and medicine on your desktop.
www.nature.com/news/2011/110928/full/news.2011.563.html
Northern Canada suffers power loss | Canada | News | Edmonton Sun
A Telesat satellite inexplicably turned toward the sun on Thursday morning, knocking out phone, Internet and cable service across northern Canada and parts of ...
www.edmontonsun.com/.../northern-canada-suffers-power-los...
Yahoo! Canada Answers - Is discovery news a credible source for ...
I need 5 credible resources, 3 have to be primary (written by the researcher), ... Try a more reputable source, if you can, like Tuesday's New York Times Science ...
ca.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid...
News Release – Come to Canada Wizard a continued success
News Release. Come to Canada Wizard a continued success. Ottawa, October 3, 2011 — The Come to Canada Wizard, which helps people determine if they ...
www.cic.gc.ca/english/department/media/.../2011-10-03.asp
Flight attendants reject Air Canada labor pact
Oct 9 (Reuters) - Flight attendants at Air Canada have rejected a tentative labor contract with the country's biggest airline, and also served notice of ...
www.reuters.com/.../aircanada-idUSN1E79612M20111010
Canada News Centre - Minister Fast Highlights Canada's World ...
The Honourable Ed Fast, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia- Pacific Gateway, accompanied by Canadian firms from the aerospace sector, ...
news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?nid=627089
Sperm donors father huge 'families' in US, Canada - News ...
IN a scenario straight from science-fiction, experts are increasingly concerned about lax rules for sperm donors in the US and Canada where some men have ...
www.jamaicaobserver.com/.../Sperm-donors-father-huge--fam...

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