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CBC World News, Jan 18, 2012

Canada would feel effect of proposed Stop Online Piracy Act
CBC.ca
A viable alternative Corynne McSherry, intellectual property director for the internet rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation, raised several other concerns about SOPA in an interview in November with Dan Misener of theCBC Radio program Spark. ...
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Keystone XL decision awaited by Canada
CBC.ca
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, in an interview with CBC chief correspondent Peter Mansbridge earlier this week, said it's clear now that Canada has to diversify its trade beyond the United States after US President Barack Obama said he would delay a ...
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Gatineau immigrant guide draws human rights complaint
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(CBC) Maghri said he was shocked when he saw an email exchange about him that revealed his personal debt. But even more alarming to him, it noted his arrival in Canada "just before the terrorist attacks" of Sept. 11, 2001. ...
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IOC facing television challenge in Canada
Globe and Mail
And that's a challenging sound for the International Olympic Committee. The IOC is considering its options after failing to get what it considers fair value for Canadian TV rights to the next two Games from a combined Bell Media/CBC consortium. ...
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Alleged mole in Mafia informant case commits suicide
CBC.ca
(Steve Rukavina/CBC) Investigators with the organized crime squad were also seen at Davidson's Laval home. Laval police would only say they were investigating a death at a hotel on the service road off Highway 15. They would not confirm the identity of...
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TRANSCRIPT | Peter Mansbridge talks with Stephen Harper
CBC.ca
16, 2012 and aired on CBC's The National that evening. PETER MANSBRIDGE: Prime Minister, thank you for doing this. I want to start on the pipeline issue. RT. HON. STEPHEN HARPER (Prime Minister of Canada): Sure. MANSBRIDGE: And of course, talking about ...
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Red tape report touts 'one-for-one' regulatory rule
CBC.ca
(Adrian Wyld/Canadian Press) The group, which reviewed the burden on businesses of complying with regulations, released its final report after consultations and roundtables across Canada. The red-tape commission was made up of six Conservative MPs and ...
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MPs urged to give up 'platinum-plated' pensions
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"I think we have to be reasonable in all of our remuneration schemes, including salary, benefits and pensions, and that applies to all of us who are in the world of public service, whether we're politicians or employed by the government of Canada as ...
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Western Canada hit by blast of winter weather
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Environment Canada is warning Edmonton residents to expect extreme wind chill temperatures overnight. Environment Canada is warning Edmonton residents to expect extreme wind chill temperatures overnight. (CBC) Forecasters urged people to monitor the ...
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School buses cancelled around Sask.
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(Paul Dornstauder/CBC) Several school divisions around Saskatchewan say they won't have buses running Wednesday because it's too cold. School buses cancelled? If school bus service has been cancelled in your division today, send CBC an email. ...
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CBC News Toronto at 5: Tuesday January 17, 2012
CBCtv
Many people dream of coming to Canada, to reconnect with family. For this 22-year-old, it's to say good-bye to the victim of a violent stabbing - his mother. A son's final farewell. Plus -the last City Hall budget battle, and finally, ...
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Tamiflu safety, effectiveness questioned
CBC.ca
The Public Health Agency of Canada said it is aware of the publication and is reviewing it closely. "This review comments on the effectiveness of antivirals for the prevention and treatment of influenza in healthy adults and children," an agency ...
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School bibles draw parent complaint
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"I'll be held responsible for my child's belief system, not the schools," Arsenault told CBC News Tuesday. "I'm not against religion, any form or fashion. We've got a wide variety of Bibles here. We even went as far as to spend money to buy an English ...
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Oil industry taps ex-NB gas advisor as new lobbyist
CBC.ca
Energy Minister Craig Leonard's sister, Angie, has been hired as a lobbyist by the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. (CBC)Energy Minister Craig Leonard's sister, Angie, has been hired as a lobbyist by the Canadian Association of Petroleum ...
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BC woman wants her pet Canada goose back
Globe and Mail
Over time, the Canada goose became part of her family. Last week, conservation officials removed Lucy and took the bird to a wildlife rescue centre in Prince George. As CBC reports,Canada's Migratory Birds Convention Act prohibits people from keeping ...
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CBC series 8th Fire aims to dispel native stereotypes
Toronto.com
Wab Kinew is the host of a four-part CBC series that tries to counteract stereotypes about natives in Canada, called 8th Fire. By Bruce DeMara Aboriginal Canadians do indeed pay taxes. The majority of them no longer live on reserves. ...
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Burns Lake hits CBC
Burns Lake District News
By Contributed - Burns Lake Lakes District News A new CBC TV and Radio One documentary, 8th Fire, will include a series of programmes on Aboriginal issues across Canada. The series starts on Jan. 12, 2012 at 9 pm on CBC TV and on CBC Radio One. ...
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House of assembly slides to second-sleepiest status
CBC.ca
(CBC) The Newfoundland and Labrador house of assembly sat for the fewest days last year since the Tories took office, dropping the province further down the list of active provincial legislatures. The chamber at Confederation Building was open for ...
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NewPage wins extension of creditor protection
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(CBC) NewPage Port Hawkesbury has been given a new deadline to try to seal a deal with a buyer for the idle paper mill. A Nova Scotia Supreme Court justice approved the company's request for an extension of its creditor protection on Wednesday. ...
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Winter storm hits Ottawa-Gatineau
CBC.ca
(Ashley Burke/CBC) Steve Kee with the Insurance Bureau ofCanada said insurance companies expect a spike in collisions on days like Tuesday. School buses cancelled School buses were cancelled in the morning at Ottawa's English and French public and ...
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Arctic air blast sweeps from West to East
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(Yvon Theriault/CBC) Conditions are forecast to be clear for most of Ontario and Quebec on Wednesday, with the chilly temperatures expected to linger for the next couple of days. "There are some snow squall watches towards Lake Superior, ...
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Expert justified: Parks Canada
The Chronicle Journal
Among its clients, the Toronto firm the government has hired lists CBC and the Ontario government. The Parks Canada initiative was revealed last week by the Globe and Mail. Campbell said the agency may not have to spend the entire $396000. ...
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'Dire days for documentary in Canada'
Vancouver Sun
People liked these little pieces we had put out about independent game developers, and even though we were entering a world we knew little about, we felt confident that it would work," says Pajot. "I worked at CBC for years, and I'd never seen so much ...
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Winnipeg cold snap sparks engine boost calls
CBC.ca
(CBC) The sudden chill was in sharp contrast to the unseasonably mild winter weather many Winnipeggers had enjoyed over the last few weeks. That could explain the 300-plus calls for service Crane Towing received on Tuesday — more than triple the ...
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Album: Kathleen Edwards, Voyageur (Zoe Records)
SoundSpike
But in some ways it's not: last year she divorced Canadian music scene kingpin Colin Cripps and shacked up with Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon, symbolically moving her emotional allegiance southwards, or at least laterally (Vernon lives in Wisconsin). ...
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BC woman fights to get back tame Canada Goose
CBC.ca
VanderWiel admits, in hindsight she did the wrong thing by picking Lucy off the side of the road and taking her home, but says she didn't know at the time the little ball of yellow fluff was a CanadaGoose. With files from the CBC's Betsy Trumpener ...
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John Ivison: Pragmatic motives behind Stephen Harper's meeting with First Nations
National Post (blog)
This explains why the Prime Minister wrapped the aboriginal issue in with other challenges to Canada's long-term fiscal well-being in his CBC interview. “We have immediate challenges because of the global economic situation but the other things we are ...
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National Post (blog)
Commentary: Louis Lalande named new boss at Radio-Canada
Montreal Gazette
By Brendan Kelly, The Gazette January 17, 2012 Louis Lalande is the new executive vice-president of French services at CBC/Radio-Canada, taking over from Sylvain Lafrance, who stepped down in fall 2011. MONTREAL - So are Radio-Canada and Quebecor set ...
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SpyFile: Everything we know about Halifax's espionage case
Open File (blog)
"We have access to a lot of allied intelligence, so we're a perfect and natural target, even though we tend not to think of ourselves as such," Wark told CBC. On Tuesday night, CTV reported that Canada is planning a “measured response” to Russia, ...
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Dozens of flights cancelled at Pearson airport
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An Air Canada spokesperson told CBC that passengers should check to ensure their flights are on schedule. Flights have also been cancelled at the Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport, where Porter Airlines was advising its customers Tuesday to confirm ...
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CAA campaign gives pros, cons of electric vehicles
CBC.ca
Peters took CBC News for a test drive around Winnipeg on Tuesday in CAA Manitoba's new Nissan Leaf, an electric vehicle that it has purchased. It has also borrowed a Mitsubishi iMiEV to showcase electric vehicles in Winnipeg, Brandon and surrounding ...
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Ariane Fortin claims bias in loss to Mary Spencer in Canadian women's boxing ...
Toronto Star
Spencer told CBC Tuesday that she has no doubt she won that round, which gave her a fourth straight victory over her former training partner. “Normally it would probably bother me that an opponent was saying something like that or thought that,” she ...
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'Under Fire' a hard look at reporters in war zones
Globe and Mail
You could call Under Fire “the li'l documentary that grew,” since it was originally green-lit in 2010 as a 45-minute feature by CBC'sspecialty channel Documentary. Bruce Cowley, creative head ofCBC digital channels, still believed that's what he ...
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Den Tandt: Rae's duplicity on leadership aspirations must end now
Montreal Gazette
... leadership of the Liberal Party of Canada? During last weekend's Liberal convention in Ottawa The Question was put to Rae so frequently that he, quite characteristically, made it a joke. "I love you too, Julie," he told the CBC's Julie Van Dusen, ...
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Rookie Blue, LA Complex bode well for Canadian-US TV deals
Toronto Star
“They came to us with that show fully financed around the world and Canadabeing key to it,” says Robert Greenblatt, chairman of NBC Entertainment. Sony Pictures Television launched the series across Asia, Latin America and Central Europe close to the ...
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U.S. pipeline foes see Canada as a giant national park: PM
The Province
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says there are Americans who want to turnCanada into a "giant nation-al park" and he wants to ensure their opposition to the Northern Gateway pipe-line doesn't delay regulatory hearings. CBCbroadcaster Peter Mansbridge ...
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Lethbridge funeral home owners accused of fraud - Canada - CBC ...
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Lethbridge funeral home owners accused of fraud - Canada - CBC News. LouCypher2012/01/18. at 9:27 AM ETWrap me in my favorite bed sheet, drop me in a hole and plant a tree over my grave. I will always be there for you to visit if the ...
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20000 Haitians to get resettlement help from Canada - World - CBC ...
Canada will help find and repair homes for about 5000 Haitian families,International Co-operation Minister Bev Oda says.
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The law behind the same-sex divorce controversy
CBC News Canada ... CBC News Navigation ... came to Ontario to get married, as Canada is one of the few jurisdictions in the world where same-sex marriages ...
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Tories to lift ban on transmitting early election results
CBC News Canada ... CBC News Navigation ... By Laura Payton, CBC News... But with social media making it easier for Canadians to spread news, the ban is ... Twitter has more than 100 million active users around the world, according to its ...
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The growing tensions between Ottawa and the provinces
CBC News Canada ... (Note:CBC does not endorse and is not responsible for the content of ... Regional conflicts, the West versus Central Canada, emerged. .... 16, 2012 3:07 PM How gays and lesbians the world over are taking a Canadian ...
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Woman survives bungee jump accident - World - CBC News
CBC News World ... Spy case won't hurt Canada's reputation, MacKay says Video: Defence Minister Peter MacKay is trying to reassure Canadians that ...
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Cruise ship disaster unlikely in B.C. - British Columbia - CBC News
Officials in the Canadian cruise ship industry are confident a disaster similar to that ... CBC News Canada ... Not all jurisdictions around the world require pilots. ...
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Skip to main content; Skip to CBC accessibility page ... CBC News Canada ...CBC News Navigation ... by SandySmithCBC via twitter 1/16/2012 3:44:58 PM...
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Ottawa digs itself out after second snow day - Ottawa - CBC News
Skip to main content; Skip to CBC accessibility page ... CBC News Canada ...resulted in more flight delays and cancellations at the Ottawa InternationalAirport . ...
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