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CANADA News, Aug 26, 2011


CANADA STOCKS-Uncertainty drags TSX lower, golds cushion slide
Reuters
National Bank of Canada (NA.TO) shed 2.7 percent to C$70.40, despite reporting on Thursday that quarterly profit rose 15 percent, as analysts voiced concerns over narrower margins on loans and weak trading revenues. [ID:nN1E77O06N] Traders were on edge ...
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New diplomat to Canada named
Ottawa Citizen
By Lee Berthiaume, Postmedia News August 26, 2011 12:00 AM When Abubaker Karmos arrived in Ottawa as a diplomat in March 2010, relations between Canada and his native Libya were anything but remarkable. As a result, he had little reason to suspect that ...
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In Canada, too few use passwords on mobile devices
Montreal Gazette
That assessment was based on a survey commissioned by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner ofCanada that found, among other things, that just four in 10 of those asked use password locks on their mobile devices or adjust their settings to limit ...
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National Bank Of Canada CEO Doesn't Foresee Recession
Wall Street Journal
By Caroline Van Hasselt Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES TORONTO (Dow Jones)--Economic growth in Canada will be soft, but the country is unlikely to slip into a recession, the head of National Bank of Canada (NA.T), the country's smallest lender by assets, ...
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Simpson gets call to lead Canada for World Cup qualifying
Victoria Times Colonist
Canada will need to top Group D against St. Lucia, Puerto Rico and St. Kitts and Nevis in order to advance to the next round of CONCACAF regional qualifying play. “The field conditions are not the best [in the Caribbean and Latin America] so they could ...
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Op-Ed: Canada: Next NDP leader has big shoes to fill
DigitalJournal.com
Regardless of who is chosen, they're going to have to limit party infighting and unite it under Layton's vision of Canada and what he came to represent at the national level over the last eight years. Otherwise, like most Marxist philosophical schisms ...
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Francis bounces back in native Canada; Royals hold off Toronto for 9-6 victory
Kansas City Star
Sure, it's Canada, but Francis comes from Vancouver, which is three times zones and more than 2000 miles away. Francis reversed a series of four brutal starts Thursday night by pitching into the seventh inning here in his home and native land and got ...
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Kansas City Star
Miyazato grabs share of LPGA Canadian Open lead
AFP
MONTREAL — Ai Miyazato and Pernilla Lindberg fired seven-under 65s on soggy greens to share the lead in the Canadian Women's Open, with crowd favourite Samantha Richdale of Canada a shot back. Defending champion Michelle Wie was two shots adrift after ...
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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ dips, bonds rise ahead of Bernanke speech
Reuters
Investors expect Bernanke to stress that the Fed still has tools to support the US economy, whose health is critical for Canada. St-Arnaud said the Canadian economy is in a "rough patch" but should recover enough for the Bank of Canada to raise ...
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Canada June Employment, Earnings and Hours Report (Text)
Bloomberg
By Ilan Kolet - Thu Aug 25 12:30:01 GMT 2011 The following is the text of Canada's employment, earnings, and hours report for June released by Statistics Canada. In June, average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees increased 0.3% from the ...
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Canada Steps Up Lobbying for Keystone Ahead of Deadline
Wall Street Journal
Approval is "very important for Canada, and for the US," said Joe Oliver, Canada's natural-resources minister, in an interview. He said he recently met with US legislators in Washington to talk up the pipeline project, and said he will shortly return ...
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Canada's White making mark in Mirabel
CBC.ca
“I loved [ringette],” said White, who played on the Alberta provincial team at the 2003Canada Winter Games in New Brunswick. “It was always my sport growing up. Golf connected ringette seasons for me. But I loved it. I miss it a lot. ...
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CBC.ca
Mexican pair sneaking into Canada arrested at border
Globe and Mail
Two men arrested for trying to sneak across the Canadian-US border near Abbotsford appear to be part of a growing cohort of migrant workers coming illegally into Canada, police say. US border patrol officers spotted the two, who are from Mexico and ...
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U.S. applauded Canada's visa crackdown
Montreal Gazette
By JORDAN PRESS, Postmedia News August 26, 2011 12:00 AM US officials in Mexico were happy in 2009 to see Canada impose new visa rules on Mexican tourists, a measure they felt would fill a gap in Canadian border security, according to a leaked ...
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Brother tried to convince Ottawa man killed in Libya not to fight
Vancouver Sun
The family is Libyan but Nader had been born in Canada while their father was studying in Edmonton, and he had Canadian citizenship. He had been living in Canada since 2008, where he had a job he loved as a software engineer. His brother told him this ...
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US, Canada Name Rosters for International Matches
New York Times (blog)
By JACK BELL Jurgen Klinsmann, the coach of the United States national team, on Thursday released his 24-man roster for two coming friendly matches — against Costa Rica at the Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif., on Sept. ...
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Weather: Forecasting fear?
Hamilton Spectator
It's a delicate balancing act for Canada's national weather agency in cases where extreme weather is expected, especially now in an era of 24-hour news channels, Internet news sites and social media forums such as Twitter and Facebook. ...
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Harper: Evidence Still Points to Growth in Canada
Wall Street Journal
Canada's economy has done better than that of most of its developed peers in the Group of Seven. But global headwinds are having their effect, and recent economic data have some economists projecting a modest contraction in Canada's second-quarter ...
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Irene aiming for New York, tracking to hit Canada
London Free Press
"The storm should hug the coastline of the US and move up into New England and then move up intoCanada by early Monday morning," Bob Robichaud of the National Hurricane Centre in Dartmouth, NS, said Thursday. "What the storm will actually look like ...
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Canada falls to Puerto Rico at tune-up tourney
Vancouver Sun
Team Canada's head coach Leo Rautins (L) protests a foul with an official as his team met Team Puerto Rico during their game in the FIBA Americas regional qualifying basketball tournament to decide two berths for the 2008 Beijing Olympics, ...
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Slow rebound seen for Canada forestry output
Reuters
The report by the Conference Board of Canada and the Business Development Bank of Canadasees a slow recovery for the wood products, furniture manufacturing and paper products sectors, as well as printing services. "Uncertainty is the watchword for all ...
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Canadian women to get new soccer coach soon: CSA
CBC.ca
A new coach will be in place before Canada plays two exhibition matches against the United States in September, Peter Montopoli, the CSA's general secretary, said Thursday. The women's team has been without a coach since Carolina Morace resigned ...
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Commuting quandary
The Kingston Whig-Standard
By Elliot Ferguson The Whig-Standard A Statistics Canada report on commuting confirms what many already knew or thought: taking public transit takes longer than driving a car to work. The study released Wednesday shows Canadians spend an average of 26 ...
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Oil companies cooperate on toxic task in Canada
Minneapolis Star Tribune
A tailings settling pond is a toxic eyesore next to the Syncrude Canada oil sands upgrader facility near Fort McMurray, Alberta, 600 miles north of the US border. FORT McMURRAY, ALBERTA - Decades of open-pit mining have scarred northern Canada's ...
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Canada contributed a disproportionate amount to Libya air strikes: sources
National Post (blog)
Canada has deployed six CF-18 (CF-188) Hornets to enforce the no-fly zone over Libya. Picture taken March 27, 2011 Canadian fighter jets were in the air again this week, striking at the Gaddafi regime's tanks and artillery, part of this country's ...
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Harper to meet Resolute crash victims' families
CBC.ca
Beginning of Story Content Ches Tibbo, 49, was among the victims of the First Air crash. He was returning to Nunavut after attending his sister's funeral in Newfoundland. Ches Tibbo, 49, was among the victims of the First Air crash. ...
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CBC.ca
Canada geese posing problems for golfers
Jackson Clarion Ledger
You see, Canada geese used to hang around Canada (duh) and northern US starts during the summer, then migrate south. That, of course, helped determine the fall and winter goose hunting seasons. But, it seems, some of the geese found the South to be a ...
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Kudos for three great art shows in Canada
Toronto Star
Then in Ottawa the National Gallery of Canada closes its brilliantly illuminating extravaganza about a startling shift in the art world of 17th Rome — Caravaggio & His Followers in Rome. There are so many rich details to take in that I visited the ...
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Where's Canada's Warren Buffett?
Toronto Star
As these wealthy Americans are calling for higher and more progressive taxation, we have to ask: Where is Canada's Warren Buffett? When will we see ultra-wealthy Canadians offering to pay higher taxes? Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have also launched ...
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Refugee plan catches flak
Toronto Sun
By Terry Davidson ,Toronto Sun Giving failed refugee claimants thousands of dollars to return home could make Canada's “broken” immigration system vulnerable to even more abuse, says an immigration expert. Herbert Grubel, of the Fraser Institute, ...
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Canada's mines to get $130bn in investments by 2016 - MAC
Creamer Media's Mining Weekly
“Multi-billion dollar investments are planned in virtually every province and territory of Canada. As a global mining superpower, Canada is well positioned to capitalize on this opportunity,” Mining Association of Canada (MAC) CEO Pierre Gratton said ...
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Canada Gets a $299 Xbox 360 Bundle, Including Five Console Games ...
GamePro NewsCanada Gets a $299 Xbox 360 Bundle, Including Five Console Games.
GamePro.com
TWTD.co.uk | Peters in Canada Squad - Ipswich Town News
Town midfielder or full-back Jaime Peters has been named in the Canada squad for their 2014 World Cup round two qualifying matches against St Lucia and Puerto Rico next month.
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XE.com - CANADA FX DEBT-C$ shoots to one-week high on Buffett news
TORONTO, Aug 25 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar rose on. Thursday morning against a broadly weakening U.S. currency as. market sentiment shot up on news that Warren Buffett's. conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway will invest $5 billion ...
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Canada celebrates 50 years of Miss Supertest III | World Stamp News
By aaron
Fifty years ago, on August 7, 1961, tens of thousands of excited spectators stood on the banks of Lake Ontario at Long Reach, near Picton, Ontario, and held their collective breath as Canadianhydroplane Miss Supertest III made history ...
World Stamp News
WATCH: Stunning Lightning Strikes Canada Building - KHQ Right Now ...
KHQ Right Now - News and Weather for Spokane and North Idaho | WATCH: Stunning Lightning Strikes Canada Building. Member Center: Create Account|; Log In; Manage Account|; Log Out. SITE SEARCH WEB SEARCH BY Google ...
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Canada News: Cohn: The education of Tim Hudak on full-day K ...
By nbcdipper
Canada News: Cohn: The education of Tim Hudak on full-day K - thestar.com. And this one should read...Hudak argues against full day kindergarten for the sake of arguing. Or how about, PC leader Hudak talks from both sides of his mouth? ...
New Democrats Online
Group to carry topless protest | Canada | News | London Free Press
Members of a group spawned by the Raelian Movement are blowing their tops over the city's refusal to grant them a permit for a topless event in an east-end park.
London Free Press
Canada: Canada Committing to Electric Vehicle Industry « 4EVRiders ...
By dblo
By Dave Brown —Exclusive to Lithium Investing News Canada is demonstrating a commitment to the lithium industry by creating the framework for programs.
4EVRiders.org - Global Leader...
Financial blogger looks even deeper into Canada's real estate ...
By John Michael McGrath
That sense of foreboding became even more acute earlier this week with news that Toronto is the second most expensive city for homeowners in Canada (as always, Torontonians nervous about their home investments can take comfort in the ...
torontolife.com
Justin Bieber Will Raise His Kids in Canada! | Showbiz Spy ...
By Adam
JUSTIN Bieber wants his children to grow up Canada. The 17-year-old pop star -- who was born in London, Ontario, and grew up in Stratford, Ontario -- is keen.
Showbiz Spy - celebrity news,...
CANADA FX DEBT-C$ shoots to one-week high on Buffett news – forex.ch
By Forex.ch
CANADA FX DEBT-C$ shoots to one-week high on Buffett news. August 25, 2011 by Forex.ch Leave a Comment. * C$ rises to C$0.9811 to the U.S. dollar, or $1.0193 * Bonds mixed By Ka Yan Ng TORONTO, Aug 25 (Reuters) – The Canadian dollar ...
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Construction begins at the new Allandale Waterfront GO Station ...
Transport Canada. Symbol of the Government of Canada. Transport Canada. www.tc.gc.ca. Skip to content | Skip to institutional links ... About Us. About Transport Canada. No. H077/11. For release - August 25, 2011 ... "This is great news for Barrie residents," said MPP Carroll. "Adding another stop in Barrie will make it easier for GO commuters to take public transit and leave their cars at home. Better public transit means a better quality of life for Ontario families." ...
Transport Canada - All News Releases
Explosion levels house | Canada | News | Winnipeg Sun
A woman is missing after an explosion levelled a Brantford, Ont., home on Thursday.
Top News stories
Canadians oppose Internet spy law: Poll | Canada | News | Ottawa Sun
Canadians want to keep their online info away from police, a new survey suggests. A poll commissioned by the federal privacy watchdog indicates 82% of Canadians are against giving police and spy agencies the power to access e-mails and ...
Top News stories
'He made people believe in politics' — Canada says goodbye to Jack ...
Jack Layton has left Parliament Hill for the last time.
Ottawa Citizen - News
Man killed after jail release | Canada | News | Winnipeg Sun
Last week, a judge asked Rendell Palacios what it was like to be shot.
Canada stories
/R E P E A T -- Canada's most popular news release website ...
R E P E A T -- Canada's most popular news release website undergoes dramatic transformation/.
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Canada News: A rainwater fountain, bike lanes, solar panels: How ...
DTN Canada: Rainwater fountain, solar panels: How Toronto should remember Jack: Star readers have plenty of crea... http://t.co/cLxDZNx.
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Marshall Ethane Will Be Sent to Canada - News, Sports, Jobs - The ...
By CASEY JUNKINS Staff Writer , The Intelligencer / Wheeling News-Register ... gas processing plants in Marshall County plans to send its ethane to Canada. ...
theintelligencer.net/.../Marshall-Ethane-Will-Be-Sent-to-Canad...

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