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Feb 12, 2012

CANADA News, Feb 12, 2012

Air Canada Sets Contract With Third Union, Still Seeks Pilots' Agreement
Bloomberg
Air Canada (AC/A) reached its third union contract agreement in three days today, while pilots voted on whether to authorize a strike. The Canadian Airline Dispatchers Association, which represents 74 workers at the airline's operations control center ...
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Canada wins bronze in team relay at luge worlds
Globe and Mail
Canada won a bronze medal in the team relay at the luge world championships Sunday while Olympic champion Tatjana Huefner of Germany picked up her fourth women's title. Huefner capped a perfect weekend for the host country by teaming with Felix Loch, ...
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Globe and Mail
Pratt & Whitney Canada's Latest Generation PT6C-67C Engine Deliveries Reach ...
MarketWatch (press release)
HELI-EXPO, DALLAS, TEXAS, Feb 12, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) announced today at Helicopter Association International's HELI-EXPO 2012 that it has delivered its 1000th PT6C-67C engine to AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica ...
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China loans two pandas to Canada
The Hindu
China has loaned two rare giant pandas to Canada for a research program. The Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens (CAZG) on Saturday signed an agreement with two Canadian zoos in this regard in Chongqing municipality in southwest China.
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The Hindu
East Coast braces for severe weather
CBC.ca
Environment Canada issued a storm warning Saturday. (EC) Environment Canada issued weather warnings across Quebec and Atlantic Canada Saturday, caused by an "intensifying low pressure system" approaching from the southwest over the Gulf of St Lawrence ...
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CBC.ca
Davis Cup: France one win away from defeating Canada
Vancouver Sun
Milos Raonic has defeated ATP top 10 players before and he'll have to again, if Canada is to extend its Davis Cup World Group tie against France. The French moved to within one victory of clinching the best-of-five nations competition after the doubles ...
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Unbearable panda wait is over
Toronto Sun
Pandas are heading for zoos in Toronto and Calgary, the result of an agreement between Hu Jintao, President of China and Mr. Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada. Panda diplomacy between China and Canada has finally delivered results.
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BAY STREET-Western Canada oil sands opportunity knocks in East
Reuters
Tapping Eastern Canada's manufacturing sector to build the gear for the West's booming energy industry is one way to beat back cost pressures while allowing other parts of Canada to cash in on the opportunity, said Ken James, privately held Oak Point's ...
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Canada's ethnic media to request gov't cash boost
CTV.ca
MONTREAL — Canada's increasingly influential ethnic-press industry will seek a financial boost from the upper levels of government to better its business and journalistic know-how. While minority-language publications remain anonymous to most...
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CTV.ca
Canada's skating stars: Where are they now?
Globe and Mail
Find out what some of Canada's top figure skaters have been up to since leaving the amateur ranks This pair started skating together in 1978, winning the Junior World Championships that year. The duo were Canadian champions from 1979-1983, ...
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Globe and Mail
Canada 1 comes up short
CANOE
Rush was sitting in fourth place after the first run of the four-man World Cup bobsled race at Canada Olympic Park, with Cody Sorensen, Neville Wright and Jesse Lumsden in tow, but in the end they couldn't make up the time and finished with a two-run ...
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Drug-fighting effort along northern border a national model
Bellingham Herald
While much of the attention in recent years has focused on the southern US border with Mexico, the 5225-mile border between the US and Canada has a drug problem, too. And much of the drug traffic goes through Blaine, the busiest point of entry west of...
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Bellingham Herald
Canada keen to make mark
Deccan Herald
The Canada men's team turned their focus on the Olympic qualifiers soon after the 2010 Commonwealth Games and coach Robin D'Abreo feels the team has reached the peak of their four-year cycle. The Canadian team trains at Vancouver and Mumbai born ...
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Canada grabs skicross gold at Grand Prix; American McNeal gains X Games redemption
Washington Post
After a grueling schedule that had the Canadian team competing in the X Games, back in Canada then at the US Grand Prix, a little R & R was in order. “We're definitely tired and ready to head home and hibernate for a week until the next set of World ...
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Canada's fast rising Thomsen takes downhill silver
CBC.ca
Another World Cup men's downhill, another podium finish forCanada. Benjamin Thomsen, of Invermere, BC, was second in a World Cup event Saturday at Krasnaya Polyana, the inaugural event on the course for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
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CBC.ca
From status updates to the Canada Kiss Map, love declarations are going digital
Winnipeg Free Press
With the upcoming launch of the Canada Kiss Map on Valentine's Day, individuals fond of puckering up in public can reveal an even more personal side to their romantic lives — albeit anonymously. The Google-powered map will allow people to post a short ...
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Americans Davis, White lead Canada's Virtue and Moir at Four Continents
Globe and Mail
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — AP US champions Meryl Davis and Charlie White took a step toward successfully defending their Four Continents Figure Skating Championships ice dance title by winning the short dance Saturday. The 2011 world champions and 2010 ...
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Globe and Mail
Harper's pension-cutting plan has Canada on edge
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
His address earlier this month to the forum in Switzerland began with now-familiar boasts: Canada's banking system is "the soundest in the world," the country has recouped all the jobs lost during the global recession, and its net debt-to-GDP ratio is ...
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Pro-oil lobby retreat urges feds to deliver climate-change solutions
Nanaimo Daily News
OTTAWA - A taxpayer-funded pro-oil lobbying retreat, involvingCanada's European diplomats and industry, has urged the federal government to deliver real climate change solutions to restore the country's sagging environmental reputation.
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Nanaimo Daily News
Who decides what is in Canada's best interest?
Troy Media (blog)
12, 2012/ Troy Media/ - Prime Minister Stephen Harper's trip to China underlines a potentially historic shift in Canada's trading relationships, from an overwhelming focus on north-south trade with the United States to a broader, more stable model that ...
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Canada Women Displeased with Semi Win
RugbyMag.com
Canada returns to the championship of the Women's International 7s Invitational and will look to defend their title against the USA. But the defending champions aren't satisfied with their performance against France. “I wasn't really pleased with the ...
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Traders look to slew of results from resource group
CTV.ca
TORONTO — Traders will be looking to another heavy slate of earnings from corporate Canada this week, with results largely concentrated in the financial, mining and energy sectors -- the three main components of the Toronto stock market.
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CTV.ca
Canada convenes international meeting over troubled F-35 fighters
Vancouver Sun
WASHINGTON - Washington's plan to further slow production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter is prompting Canada to convene a meeting with seven other international partners as the countries rethink their own orders for the stealthy new fighter jet.
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Hockey Day in Canada but Sundin's night
Reuters Canada
By Steve Keating TORONTO (Reuters) - It may have been Hockey Day inCanada but the night belonged to a big strapping Swede as former-Toronto Maple Leafs captain Mats Sundin saw his number raised to the rafters of the Air Canada Center with a thundering ...
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Opposition to Quebec asbestos reaches “critical mass”
Montreal Gazette (blog)
Quebec's asbestos industry has been taking a heavy pounding of late, with two damning documentaries airing on CBC and Radio-Canada, renewed calls from politicians in Quebec City and Ottawa to outlaw the cancer-causing mineral, and a review launched ...
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News Articles Detailing Proposed Canadian Internet Surveillance ...
By Allen Keller
At least three articles informing Canadians about the proposed “Bill C-51” more formally called the “Lawful Access” law have suddenly been taken down from Canadian news sites. The proposed bill will allow the Canadian government to ...
Addicting Info
XE.com - BAY STREET-Western Canada oil sands opportunity ...
Oak Point Energy Ltd is an Alberta start-up looking to make its mark in the booming oil sands sector, and Ontario figures big in its plans.
XE Forex News
Top Canadian stories from the past week, plus other news from ...
By Ian Hardy
MobileSyrup is an independent resource on mobile technology in Canada - connecting to those who are mobile enthusiasts, professionals and shoppers. All content is Canadian - and written by Canadians. We provide daily market and ...
MobileSyrup.com
Pop queen Whitney Houston dies at 48 : Breaking News | Canadian ...
By admin
Breaking News contains Canadian News,Canadian breaking news.
Breaking News | Canadian News...
Tell the Canadian government: Stop your tar sands wolf kills ...
By Robert Tomlinson
Canadian government has called for strychnine poisoning and aerial shooting of thousands of wolves in areas of tar sands mining.1.
Care2 News Network
France takes 2-1 lead over Canada in Cup | Tennis News, Videos ...
By admin
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP)—Michael Llodra and Julien Benneteau beat Daniel Nestor of Toronto and Milos Raonic 7-6 (1), 7-6 (2), 6-3 on Saturday to give France a 2-1 lead over Canada in their Davis Cup match. Before the match ...
Tennis News, Videos and Tennis Lessons
Op-Ed: Why does the nice reverend want God to kill the gay folks?
Stephen Boissoin in Canada who was ordered by the courts to stop gay bashing or pay $7000. Odd. The only mentions I can find about that case are on right wing, anti-gay, hate-blogs. Didn't the actual Canadian news cover it from a non "gay ...
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More Info on the Honor Killings in Canada - I Want a New Left
By John Pepple
Zainab Shafia, the 19-year-old daughter among those women killed in the honor killing that has dominated Canadian news recently, had a boy friend whose name, Ammar Wahid, suggests he was Muslim. Of course, people can't always be ...
I Want a New Left
Harper's rights message to China fell short: Activists | Canada | News
The prime minister is being praised for knocking the ball out of the park as a salesman for Canada during his trade mission to China this week.
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WOLFPACK WOMENS VOLLEYBALL MAKES CANADA WEST ...
By Larry Read
The Thompson Rivers University WolfPack have qualified for the CanadaWest women's volleyball playoffs for the first time in their seven year history. The 'Pack captured the seventh and final playoff berth, despite losing to the host University ...
WolfPack Athletics News
Canada News: Cohn: How Canada let Caterpillar strip a plant clean ...
Caterpillar carried off not just our jobs but our brainpower, our intellectual property. The tech train is leaving the station, and Canada is giving it a free pass.
www.thestar.com/news/article/1126357
Canada census shows people moving west - Canada - CBC News
The latest census figures show Canada's population at 33.5 million, with more people continuing to migrate to the West.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/.../census-2011-main.htm...
Canada News Centre - Harper Government Helps to Kick Start ...
The Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for Status of Women, and Jacques Gourde, Parliamentary ...
news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?nid=654729
MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION OF CANADA | Canadian News ...
2, 2012 /CNW/ - Ryerson journalism students learned today that theCanadian news media stigmatize people with mental illness. Students heard from a McGill ...
www.newswire.ca/.../canadian-news-media-regularly-stigmatiz...
Canada News Centre - Come to Canada Wizard reaches 750000 ...
The Come to Canada Wizard, which helps people determine if they are eligible to immigrate to this country, continues to gain popularity among prospective ...
www.vicinityjobs.com/cgi-bin/externalpage_news.pl?id...
BBC News - Oil spurs Canada PM Stephen Harper visit to China
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit China next week to discuss the future of Canada's oil products.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-16884061
Canada loses in oil discount
The widening discounts dragging down the price of Canadian oil are ... That discount had shrunk below $10 with news last November that new pipeline capacity ...
business.financialpost.com/2012/.../canada-loses-in-oil-discou...
Walkom: Why Canada's new torture-friendly policy won't work
Ottawa says it is sanctioning torture only in exceptional circumstances. But to security agencies, circumstances are always exceptional.
www.thestar.com/.../1129422--walkom-why-canada-s-new-tor...
Harper opens Canadian tourism office in Beijing
Prime Minister Stephen Harper opened a Canadian tourism office in Beijing highlighting the centennial of the Calgary Stampede as a reason for more Chinese ...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/.../harper-china-tourism.html
Canada News Leader - Android
Download Canada News Leader for Android (1 - 5 downloads) - Canada News Leader News from various sources across Canada This is a beta release. 2012.
www.androidzoom.com/.../canada-news-leader_bxyer.html
  

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