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CANADA News, Aug 29, 2011


US surveys damage as Irene heads to Canada
Sydney Morning Herald
Stripped of its hurricane rank, Irene has reached Canada after barrelling through the northeastern United States where the storm claimed at least 18 lives and left a trail of treacherous flooding. Millions of people were left without power along the US ...
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Say yes to Canadian oil sands
Washington Post
By Robert J. Samuelson, When it comes to energy, America is lucky to be next to Canada, whose proven oil reserves are estimated by Oil and Gas Journal at 175 billion barrels. This ranks just behind Saudi Arabia (260 billion) and Venezuela (211 billion) ...
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Cougar Oil and Gas Canada, Inc. Acquires Additional Oil Leases at Land Sale
MarketWatch (press release)
CALGARY, ALBERTA, Aug 29, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Cougar Oil and Gas Canada, Inc. ("Cougar" "the Company") is pleased to announce that the Company acquired an additional 3 sections of land (1920 acres) at an Alberta Provincial Government land ...
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Lincicome Wins in Canada
New York Times
Bjorn's birdie on the par-5 No. 18 finished off South Africa's George Coetzee. A version of this brief appeared in print on August 29, 2011, on page B10 of the New York edition with the headline: Lincicome Wins in Canada.
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Odd: Fat cat from Canada finds Facebook fame
CNN (blog)
Fat Boy, a fat cat from the city of Moose Jaw in Saskatchewan, Canada, has become an unlikely local celebrity. The "husky" cat weighs in at about 22 lbs, equivalent to a 350-pound person, and since the local animal shelter began chronicling Fat Boy's ...
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Irene moves to Canada, US damage estimated at $7 billion
Vancouver Sun
NEW YORK — The remnants of Irene reached Canada Monday after barreling through the northeastern United States where the storm claimed at least 18 lives and caused estimated economic damage of up to $7 billion. Millions of people were without power ...
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updatedStorm warnings in place for Irene
CBC.ca
Irene was moving toward Eastern Canada on Sunday, after barrelling through the eastern US first as a Category 1 hurricane and then as a tropical storm. By midday, parts of southern New Brunswick had already been drenched with 50 millimetres of rain. ...
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CBC.ca
Quebecers may have burned a political bridge
Montreal Gazette
On May 2, Canada went to the polls. Quebec went wholeheartedly New Democratic Party. The rest of the country voted into power a majority Conservative government. Like people everywhere, Quebecers voted the way they did because they believed it served ...
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Keep kids out of boxing, pediatricians warn
Globe and Mail
According to Boxing Canada, about 2000 kids aged 11 to 16 are participating in the sport; 500 of them are female. The two pediatrician groups put out a similar statement in 1997, but “the evidence to support our stance now is much stronger,” says ...
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Globe and Mail
Crosshair to oppose all resolutions at AusAm EGM
MarketWatch (press release)
Vancouver, British Columbia CANADA, Aug 28, 2011 (Filing Services Canada via COMTEX) -- Crosshair Exploration & Mining Corp. (CXX - TSX, CXZ - NYSE Amex), ("Crosshair") has called on fellow shareholders of Australian American Mining Corporation Limited ...
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Canada dealt first loss at 12 Nations tournament
Vancouver Sun
VIERUMAKI, Finland — Canada's leisurely skate through the competition at the 12 Nations women's hockey tournament came to an abrupt halt Sunday. Canada, which had outscored its opponents by a combined 44-1 margin in winning its first three games, ...
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FanExpo Canada | A rundown of news from this weekend's convention
Comic Book Resources
DC Comics will relaunch the Justice Society by writer James Robinson and artist Nicola Scott. The new adventures of the JSA will be set not on the “New 52″ Earth, but on Earth-2, as they were before Crisis on Infinite Earths combined DC's multiple ...
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Canada's Damian Warner finishes 18th in decathlon at 2011 IAAF World Championships
Vancouver Sun
Damian Warner of Canada competes in the javelin throw event of the men's decathlon at the IAAF World Championships in Daegu August 28, 2011. DAEGU, South Korea — Damian Warner of London, Ont., struggled to an 18th-place finish in the decathlon on an ...
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Helicopter crash kills four in Quebec, Canada
Xinhua
28 (Xinhua) -- A helicopter crashed late Saturday in Canada's Quebec province, killing all four aboard including two men, a woman and a child. Local police sources said on Sunday that the helicopter went down around 9:15 pm ET in a densely wooded area ...
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Military looking to purchase over $750 M in new trucks
Vancouver Sun
Canada's military is planning to purchase thousands of new trucks in a deal estimated to be worth more than $750 million, even as an earlier announced truck program has fallen years behind schedule. With much fanfare in 2006 the Harper government ...
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Flight Attendants From Air Canada Reject New Deal
Self-catering-breaks.com
Apparently, there is not going to be any quick fix to the problems over at Air Canada. In fact, AirCanada's flight attendants have just recently held a strike vote after they overwhelmingly rejected a new tentative agreement with the airline. ...
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Canada in danger of missing the boat in the Arctic
Globe and Mail
Statements by France's ambassador for the polar regions, Michel Rocard, thatCanada appears to have given up on competing with Russia for Arctic commercial shipping traffic, should serve as a wake up call for Canadians. It may be that the country ...
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Globe and Mail
Rapp, Ellis dominate IM Canada
Slowtwitch
Jordan Rapp's race-best bike and run splits sealed a dominating second win at Penticton while Mary Beth Ellis topped Erin Baker's 1990 course record and smashed the field with a dazzling 8th overall, 9:03:13 performance at Ironman Canada Sunday. ...
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Hockey Guilty Pleasures: Trevor Alexander, Hockey Blog in Canada
Yahoo! Sports (blog)
Today's Special Guest: Trevor Alexander, aka Teebz , who writes Hockey Blog in Canada , is an occasional contributor to UniWatch and one of our favorite bloggers. I'm not a Vancouver fan by any means, but I think that Dan Carcillo's (notes) latest ...
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100 flights cancelled in Canada over Irene storm
Hindustan Times
Canadian airlines cancelled over 100 flights at Toronto's Pearson International Airport on Sunday as Hurricane Irene that ravaged through the US East Coast was approaching the country, the Toronto Star newspaper reported. The affected flights include ...
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Team Alberta romps to Western Canada Midget AAA Baseball Championship at ...
Victoria Times Colonist
By RON RAUCH, timescolonist.sports August 28, 2011 8:04 PM Alberta's Sherwood Park Dukes pour out of the dugout to celebrate winning the Western Canada Midget AAA Baseball Championship at Lambrick Park Sunday. Wyle Cunningham crafted a masterful ...
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Macatawa Bay Yacht Club-boat Team Heritage sails into Canada's Cup final
HollandSentinel.com
By Lukas Cimbal Sailing on what organizing committee co-chairman David Sligh described as “another postcard day in Macatawa, Michigan”, Team Heritage defeated Chicago's Team Convexity in the first race of Day 3 at the Canada's Cup Defender Trials on ...
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Transportation Safety Board of Canada
National Post (blog)
Just after 7 pm on Saturday, with word of the Resolute Bay crash already filtering through Canada, passengers boarded a Winnipeg-bound First Air 737 in Rankin Inlet, a Nunavut community of 2300 people 1300 kilometres south of Resolute Bay. ...
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Irene Nearing US-Canada Border; Millions in Dark, 18 Dead
BusinessWeek
28 (Bloomberg) -- Tropical Storm Irene neared the US-Canada border after killing 18 people, sending rivers to near-record heights and knocking out power to almost 6 million customers in 13 states and the District of Columbia. ...
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Merchant mariners call for medal recognition
Toronto Sun
By Jessica Murphy ,Parliamentary Bureau Canada's merchant mariners spent almost half a century fighting for recognition. Now they're asking for one more courtesy: A badge of pride. The Canadian Merchant Navy Veterans Association is pushing for a small ...
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Upcoming Harper-Obama talks last, best hope to slow the post-9/11 border chokehold
Toronto Star
OTTAWA—Ontario's economic health and millions of jobs will be on the table this fall when Prime Minister Stephen Harper sits down with US President Barack Obama to talk about unclogging the United States-Canada border. Many see the expected high-level ...
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Canada Names Women's World Team to Tokyo
International GYMNAST Magazine Online
Gymnastics Canada Gymnastique announced its women's world squad Sunday, following a two-day trial in Ontario. Talia Chiarelli, Madeline Gardiner, Mikaela Gerber, Coralie Leblond-Chartrand, Peng Peng Lee, Dominique Pegg and Kristina Vaculik are set to ...
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International GYMNAST Magazine Online
Liberals gather in Ottawa to analyze loss, prepare for future
Montreal Gazette
By Lee Berthiaume, Postmedia News August 28, 2011 OTTAWA — Liberal members of Parliament, defeated candidates, party executives and staff began gathering in Ottawa on Sunday to begin dissecting the worst electoral loss in the federal party's history ...
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Canada's organic farmers grow respect
Ottawa Citizen
By Lynn Moore, Postmedia News August 29, 2011 2:06 AM Canada's organic farming business has come a long way in very little time. While some farmers stuck to organic protocols and other industry players followed voluntary standards or certification ...
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Heats - Day One: World Rowing Championships in Bled, Slovenia
Rowing News
On the opening day of the World Rowing Championships in Bled, Slovenia, Canada saw three of its crews win heats, with two other boats advancing to the semifinals from second place. This regatta also serves as the qualifier for Olympic events to be held ...
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Bor community in Canada celebrates independence, remembers its great contributors
New Sudan Vision
(Calgary, Alberta, Canada) - One might think that the period of fanfare, pomp and color accorded an independence day was over when South Sudan became independence on July 9 this year. However, you could be proven wrong as South Sudanese communities ...
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Canada murder charge shock for NZ family | Otago Daily Times ...
The New Zealand family of a former Napier City councillor are in shock after finding out he has been charged for the murder of his Canadian wife.
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Take Irene seriously, Eastern Canada warned | Canada | News ...
Even though Hurricane Irene has been downgraded to a tropical storm, residents on Canada's east coast shouldn't let their guard down, weather experts are warning.
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Marvel Tells Canada That Alpha Flight Is To Be A Continuing Series ...
By Rich Johnston
But for now, from a hurricane-less Fan Expo Canada comes the news that Alpha Flight will now be a continuing series by Greg Pak, Fred Van Lente and Dale Eaglesham. I think I can still hear the cheering… Van Lente elaborates: “Wolverine ...
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Irene, now a tropical storm, nears Canada - News on Feeds
Site Map Make News on Feeds your home page! - Drag this link to your home button Bookmark! this page - Press CTRL-D ... Irene, now a tropical storm, nears Canada. published about 8 hours ago. MIAMI, Aug. 28 (UPI) -- Gusty bands of rain ...
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Rapp, Ellis Take Ironman Canada Titles – Triathlete.com
By News
Ironman Canada was supposed to be hot—both temperature and race wise—and it did not disappoint.
Triathlete.com » Triathlon Training,...
Irene weakens, makes way into Canada
By The Associated Press
Forecasters expect it to reach Canada later Sunday or early Monday. So far, Irene has claimed at least 19 lives and caused $3 billion in damage along the coastline, according to one private estimate. Flooding, downed power lines and falling ...
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Slave Lake begins the rebuild | Canada | News | London Free Press
People in the fire-ravaged town of Slave Lake, Alta., are excited and relieved to start building new memories, though some are waiting until the spring.
London Free Press
100 flights cancelled in Canada over Irene storm | Business News ...
By IANS
Moscow: Canadian airlines cancelled over 100 flights at Toronto's Pearson International Airport Sunday as Hurricane Irene that ravaged through the US East Coast was approaching the country, the Toronto Star newspaper reported. ...
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Canada: Holy Books Used for Cigarettes | New Middle East News
By admin
Several prisoners in British Columbia, Canada used copies of the Bible to roll cigarettes and store contraband, according to the Vancouver Sun. Prison services officials found that incidents of Bible desecration increased following a 2008 order that ...
New Middle East News
Floods build in US as Irene sloshes into Canada | Progressive ...
By msnbc.com: US news
Written by msnbc.com: US news. August 29, 2011. Read the full story. As Tropical Storm Irene chugged north into Canada, residents along the battered U.S. East Coast began surveying damage and fretted over the next danger: treacherous ...
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Tropical Storm Irene moving toward Canada | WCBD-TV 2
Tropical Storm Irene continues to move northward across the Southern New England states. Heavy rain is pushing north into areas of Canada.
CountOn2.com - Local News
Canada: Nissan Canada announces retail network for all-electric ...
By dblo
Nissan Canada Inc. (NCI) announced 27 selected Nissan retailers have passed the rigorous certification process to sell, support and service the all-electric. ... Categories. Advertisement (1); Battery News (1420). A123 (87); BYDbattery (12) ...
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Blackouts reported, storm warnings issued as Irene nears Quebec ...
Daily News, Halifax. Sunday, August 28, 2011; Atlantic Canadians urged to prepare as Hurricane Irene forecast to arrive. Ottawa Citizen, Canada. Sunday, August 28, 2011; Irene on track for late-weekend hit in Eastern Canada: forecasters ...
Calgary Herald - News
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Nutts Cup on Global TV News Hour | Crossfit Vancouver® - The ...
By eunice
Thank you to everyone who came out and made the second annual Nutts Cup such a success. It was one of the best days I've had with the CrossFit community in this province. Some of you ended up on the News Hour last night. Here's the link ...
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What do Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland and the USA agree ...
By jbf
FAMVIN News Seeing Christ in the face of the poor. Home · FAMVIN.ORG · About · Our Spirit · Our Work ... What do Australia, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland and the USA agree on? August 29, 2011 0 Comments. It is more expensive to deal ...
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Dead Canadian Polar Bear Haunts Michigan Hunter - Yahoo! News
Read 'Dead Canadian Polar Bear Haunts Michigan Hunter' on Yahoo! News. Don't get me wrong, I love polar bears. Fact is, I have a Baccarat crystal polar bear ...
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Latest News / Canada – A Canadian man who left a computer job in Ottawa in March to join the rebel fighters in Libya has been killed by a sniper's bullet in ...
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Fan Expo Canada 2011: Liveblog Central | Comic News | News ...
Here you can find all the Fan Expo Canada 2011 panel and event liveblogs in one place!
marvel.com/news/.../fan_expo_canada_2011_liveblog_central

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