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Canada Dollar Falls on European Debt Crisis, Slower U.S. Economic Growth
Bloomberg
By John Detrixhe - Sat Aug 20 04:00:05 GMT 2011 Canada's dollar fell for a fourth week versus its US counterpart in the longest losing streak since June amid concern global growth will falter as the American economy stalls and Europe's debt crisis ...
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Unions join conservationists protesting Canada-US oil line
TheNewsTribune.com
Calgary-based TransCanada wants to build a pipeline to carry crude oil extracted from tar sands in Alberta, Canada, to refineries in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas. The pipeline would go through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. ...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX slides on nagging recession fears
Reuters
By Claire Sibonney TORONTO, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index dropped sharply for a second day on Friday as financial and energy issues were hit by fears of a new US recession and by a Bank of Canada warning on risks to the global economy. ...
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Canada-based Kruger Products expanding Tennessee paper mill; $316M investment ...
Washington Post
According to a company news release Friday, Canada-based Kruger plans to expand its presence in the North American market by adding new technology to the Memphis mill that will increase production capability by 18 percent. ...
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Winning run scores on wild pitch, Canada rallies to beat Saudi Arabia 6-5 at ...
Washington Post
Canada won 6-5. Cole Cantelon had three hits and knocked in three runs for Canada and pitched the final 1 2/3 innings for the win in a game delayed nearly 90 minutes by rain. Tanner Beachy had an RBI double for Saudi Arabia, which took advantage of ...
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AP source: Ex-US Ambassador to Canada Wilkins will endorse Rick Perry during ...
Washington Post
By AP, GREENVILLE, SC — A campaign representative for Republican Rick Perry says former US ambassador to Canada David Wilkins will endorse the Texas governor's bid for the GOP presidential nomination. The campaign representative with knowledge of the ...
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J. Crew the latest big name to come to Canada
Toronto Sun
JL: We had always been getting a lot of people coming over and shopping with J. Crew; you could also buy J. Crew in Canada through the website prior and we were just seeing that pick up in the recent past. We felt that as a company we were ready to ...
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Canada July Inflation Slows to 2.7% on Sales Tax, Mortgages
Bloomberg
By Greg Quinn - Fri Aug 19 11:26:36 GMT 2011 Canada's annual inflation rate slowed for a second month in July as the impact of provincial sales tax increases faded and mortgage interest costs declined. The consumer price index increased 2.7 percent in ...
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An appreciation: Gaye Delorme, the funniest guitar wizard in Canada
Vancouver Sun
Delorme was one of Canada's top guitarists, a musician's musician who was adept at most any style you'd care to mention, from jazz to rock, funk to flamenco, country to psychedelia. “He was the Coltrane of the guitar,” recounts his friend Tommy Chong. ...
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Double silver for Canada in Universiade pool
Vancouver Sun
By Postmedia News August 19, 2011 Tera Van Beilen of Canada wins the silver medal in Women's 50m Breaststroke Final during Swimming Day Four of the 26th Summer Universiade at Universiade Center on August 17, 2011 in Shenzhen, China. ...
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Drug shortage said to be global ailment
Hamilton Spectator
TORONTO The potential drug shortage facing Canada's hospitals and pharmacies is a symptom of a global ailment crippling countries around the world, experts said Friday. Health Canada's decision to ban drug imports from a US-based manufacturer is the ...
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California wins big, Canada rallies at LLWS
Houston Chronicle
Canada won 6-5. Photo: Matt Slocum / AP Grounds crew members walk the field after laying down a tarp in preparation for a rainstorm during a pool-play baseball game between Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and Langley, British Columbia, at the Little League ...
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California shuts out Rhode Island, Canada rallies at Little League World Series
Washington Post
By AP, SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Kentucky starter Griffin McLarty silenced Pennsylvania's hitters and their huge cheering section at the Little League World Series on Friday night, getting solid defense and providing his own offense. ...
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Canada calls for gradual phase out of coal-fired plants starting in 2015
Platts
Canada plans to begin phasing out conventional coal-fired plants beginning in 2015 under draft regulations unveiled Friday by Peter Kent, Canada's environment minister. The new rules, which the Canadian government expects to finalize in 2012, ...
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Van Koeverden golden in K-1 1000
Montreal Gazette
Canada's Adam van Koeverden paddles to victory in the men's K1 1000-metre final by more than three seconds during the ICF Canoe and Kayak Sprint World Championships yesterday. dam van Koeverden ripped past the competition on Friday to win gold in the ...
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Canada Post delivering revamped approach to snail mail
Montreal Gazette
The change is part of a sweeping modernization planned by Canada Post. Across the country,Canada Post is spending a total of $2 billion to streamline the nation's postal system. "Big-picture-wise, we're modernizing our infrastructure and our ...
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It's time Canada shed all its royal baggage
Guelph Mercury
Even to us young kids, this ritual was a daily reminder that Canada was a still basically a colony of Great Britain. But within a few years Canada had its own flag, its own official anthem — and a new sense that we were a modern, ...
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G. Chambers Williams III: Canada plant gets RAV4 electric
San Antonio Express
... at the Woodstock plant, on the same line as the gasoline-powered RAV4, will streamline and simplify the production process and guarantee the highest level of quality control,รข€ said Ray Tanguay, chairman of Toyota Motor Manufacturing Canada. ...
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Canada's air wing in Kandahar ends formal operations
CTV.ca
The helicopters, along with unmanned surveillance drones, were ordered into Kandahar as a result of the Manley commission, which reviewed Canada's role in the war. Helicopter travel is not without risk. Thirty-eight lives were lost when a US Chinook ...
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CTV.ca
Carl Edwards could have trouble getting into Canada
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
On Saturday, he was scheduled to be in Canada for the Nationwide race in Montreal.Canada is a different country — it's true, I looked it up — and that means you need a passport to get there. Problem is, Edwards left his passport at home. Whoops. ...
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Yahoo! Sports (blog)
Couple fights federal surrogacy policy to bring their boy back to Canada
Toronto Star
A couple stranded in India because of a surrogacy mixup for six years is now back in Canada with their daughter and son. A single piece of paper held the key to their lives, their future, and now it was being questioned. As the couple and their two ...
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London or bust for Rautins and Canada
Toronto Star
There's a good example with Belgium (that Canada beat twice last weekend). If you look at Belgium's team, they're in the Euro championships, they didn't get in there the back door like, say, Italy did. They won their pool. They have more first division ...
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Canada enjoys four-medal day at FINA world junior meet
Vancouver Sun
LIMA, Peru — Brittany MacLean led Canada to its most productive day at the 2011 FINA world junior swimming championships. MacLean, of Etobicoke, Ont., won gold in the women's 400-metre freestyle, reaching the podium for the first time in individual ...
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Britain prosecutes, Canada dithers
Winnipeg Free Press
EVENTUALLY, say Vancouver police, "hundreds" of people may be charged for the rioting and looting that followed the Vancouver Canucks' loss to the Boston Bruins in Game Seven of the Stanley Cup finals. And then, again, they may not. ...
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The CBC stumbled with l'affaire Duceppe
Ottawa Citizen
All kidding aside, former Bloc Quรฉbรฉcois leader Gilles Duceppe's whirlwind business relationship with Radio-Canada won't soon be forgotten. In fact, our public broadcaster will rue the day its Frenchlanguage affiliate tried to get in bed with an ...
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With sparse basic services can Canada claim the far north?
Toronto Star
How, she asks, can Canada claim to be master of this vast land when so many basic services crucial to the well-being of northerners are absent? Territorial sovereignty in the north can't exist without a healthy local population, Redfern said. ...
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Hard to put numbers on human trafficking in Canada, Calgary GlobalFest panel ...
Calgary Herald
(Colleen De Neve / Calgary Herald) (For City section story by Jen Gersen) 00030346A Human trafficking in Canada is hard to quantify, according to members of a forum discussing the issue on Friday. MP Joy Smith, a human trafficking advocate, ...
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New pipeline projects needed to tap Asia-Pacific markets: Carney
Vancouver Sun
OTTAWA — Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney called Friday for a beefed-up trade diversification strategy that should include major pipeline investments linking Canadian oil and gas to booming Asia-Pacific markets. But a Bank of Canada spokesman ...
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Johnson wants Sprint Cup race in Canada
Vancouver Sun
48 Lowe's Chevrolet, came out strongly in support of Canada as the next destination for a Sprint Cup race. “It's easy for me to say, because I'm not a track owner, but I think it's an untapped market in an area where we could achieve some growth,” ...
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Cache Continued Under the Canada Business Corporations Act
MarketWatch (press release)
TORONTO, CANADA - August 19, 2011 - Mr. George A. Brown, President and CEO of Cache Exploration Inc. /quotes/zigman/496932 CA:CAY +10.00% , is pleased to announce that the Company has received a Certificate of Continuance dated August 18, 2011 granted ...
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Canada News Centre - Harper Government Announces Agreement to ...
The Harper Government today announced it will provide or purchase a loan guarantee for the lower Churchill River clean energy projects. The Honourable Joe Oliver, Minister of Natural Resources, supported by the Honourable Peter Penashue ...
Canada News Centre - National News
Canada geese hunt set for state of Arkansas | Arkansas News
By rdepriest
A special Canada goose season begins Thursday, Sept. 1, and runs through Thursday, Sept. 15. The hunt is statewide, not just in the areas where the big birds have become so numerous they are nuisances. And the daily limit is five, ...
Arkansas News
Labor groups differ over US-Canada oil pipeline | The Associated ...
By The Associated Press
Canadian company's plan to pipe oil from Alberta to the U.S. Gulf Coast is pitting traditional Democratic allies against each other. Two unions said Friday they oppose the 1700-mile Keystone XL pipeline. That opposition aligns them ...
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Poll: Who is Canada's #2 Bantamweight? | Top MMA News at ...
By Top MMA News Staff
Poll: Who is Canada's #2 Bantamweight? By: Top MMA News Staff. With two consecutive wins in the UFC, Ivan Menjivar is the hands down Bantamweight king of Canada. Who is #2? The cast is cluttered with fighters vying for the second seed. ...
Top MMA News at topmmanews.com
Frontier Post :: Afghanistan News :: Canada's air wing packs up ...
By shimran
Ottawa (Newswire): The Canadian air wing in Kandahar, considered one of those incalculable intangibles of war and a unit whose presence saved untold lives on brutal Afghan roads, is now part of the history books. ...
Frontier Post
Canada Moves Ahead with New Coal-Fired Power Rules | SolveClimate News
By Guest Writer
CALGARY, Alberta—Canada moved ahead on Friday with new regulations for cutting carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants as environmental groups decried one project which they said won approval in time to avoid them. ...
SolveClimate News
Federal cash for N.L. hydroelectric project draws fire in Quebec ...
"The projects are great news for Canada," Oliver said. "They will provide a significant boost to the economy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions." MacKay said it "demonstrates the importance our government attaches to creating ...
Canada stories
Mexican Suspect Brought Back to Canada | News Advertiser Online
By dan
The evidence gathered at the time of the shooting and afterwards resulted in a charge of Second Degree Murder, Section 235 of the Criminal Code of Canada being laid against Luis Alfonso Ochoa -Gamez, age 29 of CUAUHTEMOC, Mexico ...
News Advertiser Online
The Tri-City News - Local parks make list of Canada's filthiest ...
Local parks make list of Canada's filthiest beaches. Brownsvillegarbage-7web.jpg. Brownsville Bar Park in Surrey, photographed a few years ago, prior to more recent cleanup efforts. File Buy The Tri-City News Photos Online ...
News - Tri-City News
Josh enthrall the audience at Canadian embassy | Pakistan Today ...
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CA-CANADA Summary (Reuters) | Wall Street Financial News
By Yahoo! News: Stock Markets News
Reuters - A rate hike remains the most likely eventual course of action from the Bank of Canada and two primary dealers say it could come this December, according to a Reuters survey. All ten ofCanada's 12 primary dealers available to ...
Wall Street Financial News
Resident Evil: Retribution to Be Shot In Canada and Russia at the ...
By Jason Moore
Just last week, we brought you the news about writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson (The Three Musketeers) is returning to helm the fifth installment of the.
SciFi Mafia » News
Canada says world economy still growing slowly - Sherwood Park News
Canada is not immune to financial woes in the United States and Europe, but Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says our economy is on track and will...
Sherwood Park News
Canada Finance Minister Flaherty says world looks at Canada as a ...
By Greg Michalowski
Canada Finance Minister Flaherty says world looks at Canada as a safe haven. Written August 19, 2011 at 9:36 AM EST by Greg Michalowski .... Any news, opinions, research, data, or other information contained within this website is provided as general market commentary and does not constitute investment or trading advice. FXDD expressly disclaims any liability for any lost principal or profits without limitation which may arise directly or indirectly from the use of or ...
Forex News and Commentary by FXDD
Four Guyanese convicts wanted by Canada border ... - Stabroek News
By Stabroek staff
Four Guyanese, who have criminal convictions in Canada, were yesterday listed among persons wanted by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Shameer.
Stabroek News
Natural Resources Canada Media Room - News Release 2011-08-16
Canada Launches Canadian University Teams' Participation in EcoCAR 2.
www.nrcan.gc.ca/media/newcom/2011/201176-eng.php
The Boxing Examiner – Brings you all the Canadian Boxing news in a ...
(Press Release) The Canadian Professional Boxing Council (CPBC) has struck an agreement with Victory Promotions of Moncton, New Brunswick, ...
www.theboxingexaminer.com/tag/boxing-news-canada/
Carl Edwards' passage to Canada hits a speed bump ... - Sporting News
Sporting News Magazine is the ONLY sports title with year-round coverage of ... After trying in vain to gain access to Canada by faxing photocopies of his ...
aol.sportingnews.com/.../carl-edwards-passage-to-canada-hits-s...
Canada News - Binary Stream Software's Multi-Entity Management is ...
"We're very pleased to have Multi-Entity Management nominated for Best Mid- Market Solution by the CDN Channel Elite Awards," said Binary Stream Software's ...
canadanewsarticles.com/.../binary-stream-softwares-multientity...
Alpine Canada News | Alpine Canada Alpin
Alpine Canada News. 08/17/2011. Simmerling sets sights on ski cross. CALGARY, ALTA. (Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2011) – Former alpine skier and 2010 Olympian ...
alpinecanada.org/media/news

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