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Canada's RBC to double Mideast wealth management team: executive
Reuters
By Dinesh Nair | DUBAI (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO) expects to double the number of wealth management employees in its Dubai office in the near future, and is open to opportunities for acquisitions, a senior executive said on Sunday.
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Canada demands immigrant language skill
UPI.com
TORONTO, April 22 (UPI) -- Advocates for immigrant workers in Canada say a looming requirement of proficiency in English or French is too harsh and unnecessary. The language requirement comes into effect in July, but already many itinerant workers have ...
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Canada's Hinse claims Olympic table tenn
FOXSports.com
Table tennis has taken Pierre-Luc Hinse on quite a journey - from his father's basement in Canada to YouTube fame and now to the Olympics. Hinse earned a spot in this summer's London Games by defeating American Timothy Wang in seven games Saturday in ...
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Winter-like storms forecast in Ontario, Quebec
CTV.ca
Warm and sunny weather enjoyed earlier this spring is about to come to an abrupt halt as most parts of Ontario and southern Quebec will be slammed with winter-like storms beginning Sunday, Environment Canada says. A low-pressure system moving up from ...
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CTV.ca
On Earth Day, Canada's native Innus march to save their land, identity
Christian Science Monitor
By Lorraine Mallinder, Contributor / April 22, 2012 On Earth Day, a group of native Innu women marched to protest Canada opening their lands for commercial exploitation. They worry that their traditional way of life is in danger.
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Christian Science Monitor
BAY STREET-Commodities to hold back TSX profit growth
Reuters
"We think there is a greater likelihood of negative revisions in Canada because of our leverage to commodities," said Pat McHugh, Canadian equity strategist at Manulife Asset Management. "The US index has a greater leverage to consumer spending and we ...
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Snow White is sooo yesterday
SunHerald.com
In a hotel in Canada hangs a picture, someone's mischievous take on Snow White a few years after happily ever after. She is posed in an anonymous suburban den. Behind her, Prince Charming slouches in a chair, slowly going to seed.
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Royal Bank Of Canada Eyes Mideast Wealth Management Growth, More Staff - Executive
Fox Business
DUBAI (Zawya Dow Jones)--Royal Bank of Canada (RY.T) in the Middle East aims to double its wealth management staff in the next two to three years and boost its business by focusing on wealthy Arab and South Asian families, an executive said Sunday.
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Bank of Canada head urges caution on housing market
Reuters
"There are issues, particularly in some parts of the country in the condo market, without question, where activity has been particularly strong, has reached back to levels of the late 1980s," Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney told CBC Radio when ...
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Canada's coal industry pressured feds to weaken regulations, records say
Nanaimo Daily News
OTTAWA - Environment Canada weakened a draft version of regulations to crack down on pollution from coal-fired power plants following pressure from the industry, newly-released federal records have revealed. Briefing notes prepared by the department in ...
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Nanaimo Daily News
Governor General promotes Canadian education in Brazil
Toronto Star
They will travel to Brasilia, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo to meet academics and business leaders in the hope of attracting Brazilian students to Canada, and forging academic partnerships with Brazilian researchers. Why Brazil? Because Brazil beckons.
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Dollar, Markets Rebound After Warning From Bank of Canada
The Ledger
By JIM FOX Canada's dollar and markets rebounded after the Bank ofCanada's announcement that the days of "cheap" money could be coming to an end. A hawkish statement took the markets by surprise with the strong signal the central bank is considering ...
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Takahashi beats Chan in World Team Trophy
ESPN
AP TOKYO -- Daisuke Takahashi beat two-time world champion Patrick Chan of Canada in the free skate as Japan maintained its lead in World Team Trophy figure skating on Friday. Meryl Davis and Charlie White of the United States won in ice dancing.
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The nation's weather
Boston.com
Snow showers develop along the northern edge of this system, due to cooler air pouring in from Canada. Behind this system, scattered clouds move into the Great Lakes, bringing scattered thunderstorms with it. (AP PHOTO/WEATHER UNDERGROUND) By Weather ...
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Boston.com
Mulcair clarifies stance on pot decriminalization
CTV.ca
NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair addresses the Economic Club ofCanada in Ottawa, Thursday April 5, 2012. (Fred Chartrand / THE CANADIAN PRESS) OTTAWA — Tom Mulcair is clearing the air on pot, clarifying that he doesn't believe anyone should go to jail for...
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CTV.ca
Ariel Hsing claims table tennis spot in Olympics
USA TODAY
AP CARY, NC – For Canada's Andre Ho and American teen Ariel Hsing, this weekend just got a whole lot less stressful. Gerry Broome, AP American Ariel Hsing hits back at Canada's Chris Xu during the final singles match of the North America Olympic table...
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USA TODAY
Vancouver airport self-serve pilot expands
CBC.ca
(Canadian Press) Returning to Canada from a foreign trip will soon be as simple as ABC at many Canadian airports as the federal government expands a pilot program at Vancouver International Airport that uses self-serve kiosks to screen passengers.
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CBC.ca
Canada has one of the best - and worst systems
The Province
If you are the minister of finance in any jurisdiction in Canada, the reality of ever increasing health care costs, nearing the point of unsustainability is undeniable. Canadians can take comfort from the high quality of emergency care in our country.
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Alberta campaigns target Calgary on final day
CBC.ca
Or, do you want to vote for what Alison Redford is calling the changing of the guard within the PC party and a new direction within Canada?" PC dynasty at end? Although the Tories have been in power since 1971, they're facing a major challenge from the ...
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Porter Airlines Operates Canada's First Biofuel-Powered Revenue Flight
AvStop Aviation News
By Eddy Metcalf April 22, 2012 - Porter Airlines successfully conducted the first biofuel-powered revenue flight in Canada. In the successful conclusion to a test program that was launched in 2010, the airline flew one of its Bombardier Q400 turboprops ...
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Canada in the minority opposing more IMF firepower
Globe and Mail
Yet Canada and the United States were the only developed economies that declined to deliver funds. It's widely considered that the Obama administration is sitting out because seeking money from divided Congress in an election year would be a futile...
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Globe and Mail
Police arrest dozens trying to disrupt Montreal conference
TheChronicleHerald.ca
A sign is shown as a police officer stands guard at a conference centre in Montreal Saturday, April 21, 2012 where a meeting on the development of northern Quebec is taking place. (GRAHAM HUGHES / CP) MONTREAL — Police moved swiftly to shut down a ...
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TheChronicleHerald.ca
Canada, US refuse to give IMF emergency funds for Europe crisis
Montreal Gazette
Canada was among the countries Friday that declined to contribute additional emergency resources for the International Monetary Fund to assist the economic crisis gripping some European nations, insisting more emphasis should be placed on the eurozone ...
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Canada takes bronze at World Team Trophy figure skating event
Hamilton Spectator
TOKYO A strong performance from pairs skaters Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford ensured a bronze medal for Canada on Saturday at the World Team Trophy figure skating event. Canada finished third overall behind Japan and the US with 42 points after ...
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World champion Chan to work on new skills
Bangkok Post
Patrick Chan of Canada performs during the exhibition event in the World Team Trophy 2012 figure skating competition in Tokyo. Chan, who suffered his first defeat this season at the World Team Trophy in Tokyo, pledged to develop new skills against ...
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Fifty arrested on second day of protests in Canada — RT
By RT
At least 50 protesters have been arrested in Montreal as police clamped down on a demonstration against plans to develop northern Quebec. This comes after students clashed with police over proposed hikes in tuition fees a day earlier.
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CANADA'S ROBERT CLEROUX BEAT CHUVALO ... - Boxing News
By admin
By Jim Amato: No doubt the most well known heavyweight to come out ofCanada is George Chuvalo. For a while Lennox Lewis called it his home and Trevor Berbick.
Boxing News
XE.com - Bank of Canada head urges caution on housing market
Parts of the Canadian housing market, especially condominiums in some major cities, have seen prices jump to levels that warrant caution, the head of the country's central bank said in an interview broadcast on Saturday.
XE Forex News
Skeptic » Doubtful News » Canada officials taking Windsor hum ...
By Sharon Hill
Feds want the facts on our mystery hum. Windsor's mysterious hum has reached the ears of the federal government. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird sent his parliamentary secretary, Bob Dechert, to Windsor Friday on a fact-finding mission ...
Skeptic.com
Alleged spy wants Canada entry | Canada | News | Winnipeg Sun
An attache at the former Yugoslavia Embassy in Ottawa is being banned from entering Canada on suspicion of belonging to his country's secret police whose agents spied on local emigres.
Canada stories
GCC and UAE Finance and Investment News: Canada's RBC to ...
By Rupert Neil Bumfrey
Royal Bank of Canada (RY.TO) expects to double the number of wealth management employees in its Dubai office in the near future, and is open to opportunities for acquisitions, a senior executive said on Sunday. Toronto-based RBC has set ...
GCC and UAE Finance and Investment News
Temp workers need to pass English test to stay | Canada | News ...
Temporary low-skilled workers will need to pass English language tests in order to remain in Canada.
London Free Press
SFU eyes closer ties with Brazil | Universities NEWS
By UniversitiesNEWS
SFU eyes closer ties with Brazil - SFU President Andrew Petter will joinCanada's Governor General David Johnston in Brazil next week at an international conference of academic leaders. ... ... Asian Universities News ...
Universities NEWS
Canada, U.S. team up at border - Winnipeg Free Press
ALTONA -- Canada and the United States have taken another visible step to keeping the border open fo... - Latest News - Winnipeg Free Press. ... Autos · Homes · Winnipeg Free Press > Latest News > Canada, U.S. team up at border ...
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Transpo ride most expensive in Canada | Ottawa & Region | News ...
Fare hike puts regular adult trip to $3.30 with cash and $3.00 using a ticket.
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Air Canada pilots' sick calls ruled an illegal strike - Canada - CBC ...
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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/.../air-canada-pilots.html
BBC News - Air Canada flights grounded as pilots 'stage sick-out'
Air Canada cancels dozens of flights, blaming "illegal activity" by pilots calling in sick, in an apparent protest over a bitter labour row.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17705379
Canada News: Kingston Penitentiary: A piece of Canadian history ...
Kingston Penitentiary, which became a prison decades before Canadabecame a country, was designed for “confining, isolating, punishing and stigmatizing ...
www.thestar.com/.../1164824--kingston-penitentiary-a-piece-o...
Canada News Centre - The Government of Canada announces ...
Through the Government of Canada's Enabling Accessibility Fund, 188 projects across Canada will improve accessibility for people with disabilities and enable ...
news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?nid=668119
Federal prison closures blasted by union - Canada - CBC News
The federal government announced today that the historic Kingston Penitentiary, the psychiatric facility on its grounds, and the Leclerc Institution in Laval, Que., ...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/.../pol-prison-closing-toews.html
Labour Minister welcomes renewed Air Canada talks - Canada ...
Labour Minister Lisa Raitt says the best solution to the labour strife between AirCanada and its pilots would be for the two sides to reach a deal by themselves.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/.../aircanada-union-negotiation.html
Charter of Rights turns Canada into a 'constitutional' trendsetter
Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms turns 30 today, and is influencing not just Canadian law but jurisdictions all over the world.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2012/.../f-charter-30-intl.html
Tired pilot caused Air Canada mid-flight dive
A terrifying incident on an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Zurich last year took place because a pilot abruptly pushed the Boeing 767 into a dive shortly after ...
www.cbc.ca/.../air-canada-zurich-flight-incident-report.html
Kingston Penitentiary: Infamous prison to be shut down
Correctional Service Canada to close prison built in 1835 that now houses criminals including Paul Bernardo and former Col. Russell Williams.
www.thestar.com/.../1164288--kingston-penitentiary-infamous...
Ontario news station broadcasts gay porn - Canada - Canoe.ca
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. — Canada's broadcasting regulator says it has received at least three complaints after a Hamilton, Ont., morning show was interrupted ...
cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2012/04/20/19658701.html

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