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CANADA News, Sep 02, 2011

Hundreds arrested during pipeline protest at White House
USA Today
By Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images Opponents view the proposed pipeline, which would bring tar sands oil to the US from Canada, as a litmus test of President Obama's commitment to fight climate change. By Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images Opponents view ...
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Libya mission will include Canada until end, PM vows
CBC.ca
Canada joined the NATO mission in March and has extended it once already to Sept. 27. Conservative MPs have until this week said it was too early to decide what help would be necessary after the extended mandate ran out. "Canada will be a part of the...
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CBC.ca
Canada banks face storm clouds after good quarter
Reuters
By Cameron French TORONTO, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Gloomier times are ahead for Canada's resilient banks, which stayed strong through the financial crisis and beyond and which largely beat analysts' expectations with their third-quarter results. ...
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CANADA FX DEBT-C$ ends firmer ahead of US data; bonds rise
Reuters
"Canada is closing a little bit stronger but we haven't had a very big move here," said Matt Perrier, director of foreign exchange sales at BMO Capital Markets. "If you look at Canada on a cross-related basis, that's where you see the strength. ...
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Chu suggests US support for Canada oil pipeline
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — Canada's status as a close US ally should boost a plan to pipe oil from western Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu said in comments that signaled support for the massive $7 billion pipeline. ...
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Bloor rents among highest in world, top in Canada
Toronto Star
It was yet another sign of how Toronto's toniest retail strip continues to defy economic uncertainty, holding firm as the most expensive shopping street in Canada and the 20th most expensive in the world. It held the same ranking last year. ...
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Canada hangs on to dunk Dominican Republic
Toronto Star
Canada's Jermaine Anderson drives past Ronald Ramon of the Dominican Republic on Thursday at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Argentina. By Doug Smith Sports Reporter Leo Rautins had a hunch and it paid off handsomely for Canada at the FIBA ...
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Medal favourites building momentum in rowing, athletics
Globe and Mail
Canada is reaching for 22 to 26 medals to reach its target of finishing in the top 12 among more than 200 countries at the London Summer Olympics, says Alex Baumann, chief executive officer of the $36-million Own the Podium plan. In Beijing in 2008, ...
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Globe and Mail
TSX drops for first time in five sessions
Montreal Gazette
By KIM COVERT, Postmedia News September 2, 2011 12:00 AM Canada's benchmark stock index fell for the first time in five sessions on Thursday as global economic data suggesting manufacturing slowdowns weighed on sentiment. Purchasing managers index data ...
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Canada Hot Stocks: TD, Shaw, Mosaid, Flint, Crescent
Wall Street Journal
Toronto-Dominion Bank (C$79.12, C$1.65, 2.1%) raised its dividend for the second time this fiscal year as strong retail earnings in Canada and the US helped push the lender's third-quarter profit up a better-than-expected 23%. ...
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Shaw Plans Wi-Fi Build-out Rather than LTE for Western Canada
Converge Network Digest
Shaw Communications, which delivers cable television, High-Speed Internet, and home phone services to 3.4 million customers in Canada, will forgo the construction of an LTE network in favor of a carrier-class Wi-Fi network. ...
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Calum Graham wins Song for Canada
StarPhoenix
A few days later, Canada's Walk of Fame called. The singer-songwriter is the winner of Canada'sWalk of Fame's A Song for Canada competition. Graham's poem, which was chosen from 631 submissions, earns him a $25000 prize, studio recording time and a ...
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Canadian women's soccer team ready to move on
The Province
By Marc Weber, The Province September 1, 2011 Team Canada head coach Carolina Morace walks off the field after a warm-up before their women's international friendly soccer game against Team USA in Toronto May 25, 2009. The Canadian Soccer Association ...
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Dire Straits Song No Longer Censored in Canada
Advocate.com
By Diane Anderson-Minshall A full 27 years after the song came out, Canada has decided that Dire Straits' hit “Money for Nothing” is now appropriate for radio airplay, according to the Associated Press. The British band's song includes what many ...
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Advocate.com
CAW chief Lewenza urges NDP to consider merger with Liberals
Globe and Mail
One of Canada's largest trade unions wants the NDP and the Liberal Party to explore the possibility of merging or co-operating in the interests of defeating the federal Conservative government. The position of the Canadian Auto Workers was outlined in ...
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Globe and Mail
Canada's top soldier stands behind cost-cutting report
National Post (blog)
By Amy Chung OTTAWA — Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff is standing behind a report looking to trim $1 billion from military spending through a reduction in military contractors, consultants and civilian employees. “(The report) gives us a 360 ...
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Pratt & Whitney Canada Signs FMP(R) Agreement With DRF Luftrettung
MarketWatch (press release)
CSC Europe is a joint-venture between Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) and MTU Aero Engines. P&WC is a United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) company. DRF Luftrettung employs some 50 helicopters for around-the-clock emergency air rescue missions and the ...
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Libya wants Canada to invest
Toronto Sun
By Kris Sims ,Parliamentary Bureau Libya wants Canada to help craft a world-class health care system in the North African Country. "We are asking to transfer the health system to Libya, an expertise in managing the system," said Sal Elgheriani, ...
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Numbers give BC clout in NDP leadership
Vancouver Sun
By Peter O'Neil, Vancouver Sun September 1, 2011 Western Canada and especially BC will wield enormous influence in selecting the next leader of the official Opposition, newly released New Democratic Party membership figures suggest. ...
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Human foot discovery adds to Canada mystery
AFP
VANCOUVER — A human foot has washed up on a beach near Vancouver, the 11th such find in four years in the region, a Canadian coroner said Thursday, adding to a macabre mystery. An autopsy on the foot established that it had become separated from its ...
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AFP
Minister denies political interference in Environment Canada cuts
Montreal Gazette
By Mike De Souza, Postmedia News September 1, 2011 OTTAWA — Hundreds of job cuts announced over the summer at Environment Canada were not politically motivated and will not affect core services in the department, Environment Minister Peter Kent said ...
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Career criminal sign of flawed immigration system
Toronto Sun
Walford Uriah Steer, one of the latest fugitives wanted by the Canada Border Services Agency to be rounded up, has been steering his way through the country's flawed immigration system for more than a decade. The 39-year-old career criminal has been ...
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YouTube expands movie rental service to Canada
AFP
WASHINGTON — Video-sharing site YouTube, which has been adding professional content in a bid to generate revenue, announced Thursday it has begun renting movies online in Canada. YouTube said in a blog post that more than 1000 full-length movies from ...
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Rugby-Canada, Scotland join forces for World Cup practice
Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Scotland and Canada took part in a rare joint training session in Queensland, Australia on Friday as the duo continued preparations ahead of the World Cup in New Zealand. Both sides went through their own warm-ups before coming together to run through ...
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Lions Bay Media Named One of Canada's Top New Growth Companies
MarketWatch (press release)
Recently, they have been declared 3rd out of 50 New Growth Companies in Canada by The PROFIT HOT 50 ( http://www.profitguide.com/awards/hot50_2011 ). "Lions Bay Media builds and manages advertising campaigns for companies. Whether its unique creative ...
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Canada uncensored
Toronto Star
Another sign of Canada's quest for distinction is the innovative casting and twists on convention in films like the classroom drama Monsieur Lazhar, by Quebec's Philippe Falardeau, and the hockey comedy Breakaway, by Toronto's Robert Lieberman. ...
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Global Logistic, Canada Pension to Invest in Japan Assets
San Francisco Chronicle
1 (Bloomberg) -- Global Logistic Properties Ltd., the overseas logistics unit of the Government of Singapore Investment Corp., said it formed a joint venture with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to invest in warehouses in Japan. ...
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Cancer-Fighting Engineered Virus Makes Medical History
Voice of America
September 01, 2011 Cancer-Fighting Engineered Virus Makes Medical History VOA News Researchers in Canada have used a genetically-modified virus to selectively kill cancer cells in humans without harming healthy tissue. The idea of using viruses to ...
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Kingston rowers help boost Canada to bronze medal
The Kingston Whig-Standard
Indeed, Canada beat Australia to the line by 41 one-hundredths of a second to take the final spot on the podium. Germany won in 5 minutes 28.81 seconds, Great Britain was second in 5:30.83 withCanada third in 5:31.18. The result was a significant ...
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The Fraser Institute: Led by Alberta, Prairies Home to Canada's Best Labour ...
MarketWatch (press release)
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Sep 01, 2011 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- Alberta had the best-performing labour market in Canada between 2006 and 2010, followed by Saskatchewan and Manitoba, concludes a new report released today by the Fraser Institute, ...
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Conrad Black tells magazine connections made with mafia
Montreal Gazette
'I can live on $80 million. At least I think I can,' Black tells Vanity Fair Conrad Black leaves his fraud trial at a Chicago court in June 2007. Former media baron Conrad Black, ordered this summer to return to prison, opened up in an interview with a ...
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The Woodstock Independent: Canada News: Cohn: eHealth ...
By jim bender
Canada News: Cohn: eHealth storyline has a Tory timeline - thestar.com. An interesting article that points to how the massive debt for ehealth Ontario was actually created(ask Mike hairass and Tiny Tim about that one)and how the government ...
The Woodstock Independent
Cricket Canada CEO leaves office | Canada Cricket News | ESPN ...
Chandra Gocool has stepped down after two years as Cricket Canada's chief executive after the board decided not to renew his contract - Cricket news from from cricket in Canada.
Cricket news from ESPN Cricinfo.com
Canada Lifts Ban on Dire Straits' 'Money for Nothing' | Rolling Stone ...
Canadian broadcasters can go back to playing Dire Straits' 1985 hit, Money For Nothing, theCanadian Broadcast Standards Council CBSC announced yester.
RollingStone.com: All News
Canada eases Libya's economic punishment | Canada | News ...
In an effort to bolster Libya's new government, Canada has lifted the special sanctions it imposed against the North African country in late February.
Canada stories
Libya wants Canada to invest | Canada | News | London Free Press
Libya wants Canada to help craft a world-class health care system in the North African Country.
London Free Press
Canada looks to Kiwi coach for guidance at RWC | News for you
By atompublish
TORONTO – Canada arrives in New Zealand with a World Cup winner at the helm and the belief that it is ready to take on the world's best. Kieran Crowley, ...
News for you
Canada lifts economic sanctions against Libya - News Rickey
By BNO
PARIS (BNO NEWS) -- The Canadian government has decided to lift economic sanctions against the North African country of Libya now rebels have taken over la.
News Rickey
ARKive blog - In the News: Wolves could aid recovery of Canada lynx
By liz.shaw
ARKive - The ultimate multimedia guide to the world's endangered species - www.arkive.org.
ARKive blog
Blockbuster Canada closes stores, YouTube Movies now in Canada
One day after Blockbuster Canada's grim news made the headlines, Google quietly announced on its blog that its popular online movie rental service, YouTube Movies, will be coming to Canada. In the United States, YouTube Movies has ...
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XE.com - CANADA STOCKS-TSX slips ahead of U.S. payrolls data ...
Search for a news provider, date, or keywords. News Providers: Thompson Financial, AP, XFN-Asia, Daily FX, Reuters Date format: yyyy-mm-dd. Refresh Articles. CANADA STOCKS-TSX slips ahead of U.S. payrolls data; TD gains. Top Articles ...
XE Forex News
Canada lifts sanctions against Libya | The Associated Press | News ...
By The Associated Press
Canada has lifted its economic sanctions on Libya now that the Gadhafi regime no longer holds power. Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday that Canada is repealing economic sanctions it imposed in February in support of the ...
Examiner World RSS
Air Canada facing bumpy times over labour woes | Schulich News ...
By Schulich News
Air Canada's labour woes just won't go away. The airline's flight attendants have overwhelmingly rejected a tentative deal negotiated by their union and unanimously recommended for approval, echoing a similar rejection by the airline's pilots ...
Schulich News & Events
Apple Opening New Stores in Canada, Germany, and Italy This ...
By Eric Slivka
Apple is continuing its major push of retail store openings, with three more coming this week in three different countries. With these grand...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...
YouTube Movie Rentals in Canada, Too - Peter Kafka - News ...
By Peter Kafka
Apparently it's Web video international expansion day: A few hours after Hulu opened for business in Japan, YouTube has started offering rental movies in Canada (last year, Netflix headed north, too). Last spring, Google's video site beefed ...
AllThingsD
Chats don't have to be online: A newspaper finds success with its ...
By Tim Currie
The Free Press was the first newspaper in Canada to launch a news cafe, and it may be the largest paper in North America to do so. The Free Press, Winnipeg's largest daily, has a Monday to Friday circulation of 115827. Winnipeg is Canada's ...
Nieman Journalism Lab
Canada News Centre - Taxpayer relief measures available to ...
The Honourable Gail Shea, Minister of National Revenue, would like all Canadians who were affected by the recent tornado in Goderich or were impacted by Hurricane Irene to know that the CanadaRevenue Agency (CRA) has taxpayer ...
Canada News Centre - National News
Canada News: Layton's plea for hope and optimism was a political ...
Hours after Canada awoke to news that New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton died Monday of cancer at age 61, his extraordinary political voice echoed ...
www.thestar.com/news/.../1042988--jack-layton-dead-at-61
Senior Editor, Yahoo! Canada News on Media Job Search Canada
Canada News team, a vital part of the Yahoo! Media Network and one of the top News destinations in the country, reaching millions of users every month. ...
www.mediajobsearchcanada.com/job_view_lb.asp?...
Canada amends Dire Straits ruling - World News - MSN News UK
Canada's broadcast standards council has amended an earlier ruling that deemed Dire Straits' 1985 hit Money For Nothing unfit for radio, saying that wMSN ...
news.uk.msn.com/world/canada-amends-dire-straits-ruling

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