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CANADA News, Oct 22, 2011


Canada has a 'benevolent neglect,' former GG says
CTV.ca
It's difficult to pinpoint just when the three-year-old girl fleeing a country ravaged by war grew to become Canada's 26th Governor General. Clarkson's path to Rideau Hall isn't a straightforward one -- it deviates, zigzagging from the lowest deck of a ...
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Winnipeg Jets head coach Claude Noel
Winnipeg Free Press
"Canada lost a champion today and is a better place because of Reg's tremendous contributions." -- Liberal MP Kevin Lamoureux remembers Reg Alcock, former federal and provincial politician who once served as Treasury Board president. ...
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Chrysler to Cut Output at Minivan Plant
Wall Street Journal
By JEFF BENNETT Chrysler Group LLC will employ rotating layoffs at a minivan assembly plant in Canada amid a slowdown in production at a US factory that supplies engines to the plant. The Windsor, Ont., factory, which builds Chrysler Town & Country and ...
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Bank of Canada's role to grow
Edmonton Journal
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said Friday he's considering a more explicit mandate for the Bank of Canada, rather than adding to the central bank's responsibilities. Flaherty, speaking to reporters in Ottawa, said he's had discussions with Bank of ...
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Canada Dollar Gains for Third Week on Europe Debt Plan Optimism
BusinessWeek
By Frederic Tomesco Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Canada's dollar reached its strongest level this month amid growing optimism that European Union leaders will make headway in containing the region's debt crisis, bolstering demand for riskier assets. ...
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Scouts Canada denies keeping secret files on suspected abusers
Vancouver Sun
By JUDITH LAVOIEand DEREK SPALDING, Postmedia News October 22, 2011 12:05 AM Scouts Canada has recently come under fire for connections linked with a pedophile Scouts leader. Scouts Canada is adamantly denying that the organization has secret files ...
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Less for hospitals, more for primary care?
Daily Gleaner
By ADAM HURAS New health spending needs to be put towards primary health care, even if it's at the expense of funding for the province's hospitals, says the CEO of the Health Council of Canada. John Abbott, CEO of the Health Council of Canada, ...
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Air Canada has much to lose
Vancouver Sun
By Howard Levitt, Vancouver Sun October 22, 2011 3:08 AM Members of CUPE representing flight attendants from Air Canada were ready to support a strike until the federal government intervened at the last minute. The government also ordered postal ...
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Canada escalates fight against EU fuel rules
Calgary Herald
Shell has argued Canada is penalized for having a robust regulatory environment with accurate reporting, compared with other less transparent regimes. Oilsands operators say the life-cycle carbon footprint of oilsands crudes are comparable with many ...
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A bleak future or no sense of history?
Vancouver Sun
By Craig McInnes, Vancouver Sun October 22, 2011 3:07 AM From the mailbo GP from Vancouver complains that my assessment of Canada in a column on Occupy Vancouver as a pretty good place to live for most of us ignores the reality for people his age. ...
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Canada's OSC may allow no-contest securities deals
Reuters
TORONTO, Oct 21 (Reuters) - Canada's top securities regulator is considering policies that would allow those under investigation to settle without admitting guilt, a change that it says would expedite cases and improve enforcement. ...
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Royal Bank Of Canada Stock To Go Ex-dividend Monday (RY)
TheStreet.com
By TheStreet Wire 10/21/11 - 09:53 AM EDT NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The ex-dividend date for Royal Bank of Canada (NYSE:RY) is Monday, October 24, 2011. Owners of shares as of market close today will be eligible for a dividend of 55 cents per share. ...
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Gadhafi's death leaves Canada vulnerable
Calgary Herald
Canada and its allies claim their war against the Gadhafi regime was justified under the new international responsibility to protect principle, or R2P, which guarantees people protection in various situations. Genocide? War crimes? ...
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Canada sending university-based basketball team to Pan Ams
Vancouver Sun
By Wayne Kondro, Ottawa Citizen October 21, 2011 Carleton Ravens head coach Dave Smart will make his coaching debut for Canada at the Pan American Games in Guadelajara, Mexico. Smart has won seven of the last nine Canadian Interuniversity Sport titles. ...
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GDLS Canada to Upgrade 550 LAV IIIs for the Canadian Army
Defense Update
General Dynamics Awarded $1 Billion to Upgrade LAV III Vehicles by Government of Canada. The LAV III Upgrade Project will modernize 550 vehicles, significantly enhancing their survivability, mobility and firepower and extending the fleet's lifecycle to ...
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Defense Update
Canada takes on world's best
Trail Daily Times
By Jim Bailey - Trail Daily Times Canada's women's field hockey team faces their biggest challenge yet at the Pan Am Games as they get set to take on the number one ranked team in the world today. The Canadians haven't played Argentina in about 18 ...
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Accountability an illusion in picking Supreme Court of Canada judges
Toronto Star
Supreme Court of Canada nominees Justice Andromache Karakatsanis, left, and Justice Michael Moldaver appear at an all-party committee meeting on Wednesday to review their nomination. OTTAWA—Canada's chief justice Beverley McLachlin scooped the Prime ...
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PNE striker aims for World Cup
Lancashire Evening Post
Preston North End striker Iain Hume has his sights set on being at the 2014 World Cup with Canada. The 28-year-old is back on the international scene having dropped off the radar when he suffered a fractured skull three years ago. ...
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Lancashire Evening Post
Canada: LG Eye will be Bell's Optimus LTE, coming soon
Unwired View
In Canada, it looks like Bell is going to be the carrier to sell the Optimus LTE, though it will do so under a different name. The carrier has named its version LG Eye. We have no pricing information to speak of yet, and no solid release date either. ...
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Government of Canada Commemorates the Persons Case
MarketWatch (press release)
On behalf of the Honourable Peter Kent, Canada's Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, the Honourable Rona Ambrose, Canada's Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for Status of Women, today announced ...
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Letters: The choice on pipeline: Jobs and oil or the planet?
Detroit Free Press
A tar sands mining facility near Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada. The proposed Keystone XL underground pipeline would carry Canadian oil 1700 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. / JEFF MCINTOSH/Associated Press A telephone ad in the form of a survey asks if ...
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Mark Carney on a mission: First Canada, now the world
Globe and Mail
Mark Carney began making his reputation as economic policy maker quickly – on March 4, 2008, to be exact, only a month after taking over as the Bank of Canada's eighth Governor. Faced with the first tremors of a recession in the United States, ...
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Globe and Mail
Measles cases up in US and Canada
Science News
In Canada, Quebec province has had 759 cases, says Gaston De Serres, a physician and epidemiologist at Laval University in Quebec City. The 2011 toll in Canada as a whole is now 783, the highest since 1995. The spotty measles outbreaks are a far cry ...
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Health Canada OK's instant skin cancer test
Calgary Herald
T he Verisante Aura, which was invented by dermatologists and researchers at the BC Cancer Agency and allows doctors to diagnose malignant moles instantly, has been approved by Health Canada. "Obtaining a licence from Health Canada means we are now ...
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Canadian Parliament calls for acceptance, tolerance in wake of gay teen's suicide
LGBTQ Nation
By Brody Levesque OTTAWA, Ontario, Canada — In a speech before the House Of Commons on Thursday, Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, told the gathered Members of Parliament and ministers that there is no place in the nation's schools for the ...
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LGBTQ Nation
Occupy Canada: This week's news
By Trish Hennessy
This article looks at Canada's Occupy movement and puts it in context, including mainstream journalism's struggle with this news story: “I think one of the main challenges is that there's nothing simple about this movement and journalism ...
Behind the Numbers
Canada News Centre - Harper Government Invests in the Canadian ...
The Honourable Rona Ambrose, Minister of Public Works and Government Services and Minister for Status of Women, today announced that the Government of Canada has awarded a contract to General Dynamics Land Systems Canada ...
Canada News Centre - National News
Tax-News.com: Canada Concerned At 'Buy American' Proposals ...
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by Mike Godfrey, Tax-News.com, Washington. 21 October 2011. Canadian and American ministers have met to talk trade, with the Canadian Minister of International Trade and Minister Ed Fast stressing that, because of the importance ...
Clearing and Settlement — Clearing...
Measles Cases Up In U.S. And Canada - Science News
By scinews@sciencenews.org (Science News)
BOSTON — Measles, a preventable disease that has been largely vanquished in the United States, continues to show up sporadically in the population as unvaccinated people traveling to other countries unwittingly bring back infections, ...
Science News
News Corp. to pay $3.2M to phone-hacked girl's family : Breaking ...
By admin
Breaking News | Canadian News | Breaking News Canada. Breaking ... Media baron Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. will pay £2 million to the family of a murdered British schoolgirl whose phone was hacked by the News of the World tabloid. ...
Breaking News | Canadian News...
Taxman Topp's plan 'nonsense': Flaherty | Canada | News | London ...
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty mocked NDP leadership candidate Brian Topp's tax-the-rich plan on Friday as "dreamy" and "nonsense" and suggested he sneak a peak atCanada's tax code before launching policy planks.
London Free Press
PANAM Games: USA vs. Canada: LIVE ... - Team Handball News
By John Ryan
Last December the two teams split a two game series with each side losing by identical 25-21 scores on the road. Canada won a ten minute overtime, but that was played in Montreal, so this neutral ground showdown will serve as the unofficial ...
Team Handball News
Wellington Financial Blog – News, Views & Purviews » Blog ...
By Mark McQueen
Canada ranked #3 for “Starting a Business” in 2012, behind New Zealand and Australia (hat tip Inc. Magazine); that's the good news. Overall, Canada ranked #13 for ease of doing business, falling one notch versus last year's study. But it was ...
Wellington Financial Blog - News,...
MEDIA ADVISORY: News Conference to Launch ... - KAIROS Canada
By Andrew Kohan
MEDIA ADVISORY: News Conference to Launch Powerful UN Submission on HowCanada is Failing Indigenous Children. October 21, 2011 By Andrew Kohan. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MEDIA ADVISORY. October 21, 2011. WHO: ...
KAIROS Canada
XE.com - CANADA STOCKS-TSX ends up 1 pct on Europe optimism
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. CANADASTOCKS-TSX ends up 1 pct on Europe optimism. Top Articles ...
XE Forex News
Occupy protesters camp out in Canadian cities - Canada - CBC News
Demonstrators gathered in the streets of many Canadian cities on Saturday to kick off a series of Occupy protests over corporate greed and financial inequality, ...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/.../occupy-canada-saturday.html
Canada News: Air Canada flight attendants reject latest deal ...
The airline's flight attendants have rejected a second tentative deal, setting in motion a possible strike at midnight Thursday.
www.thestar.com/news/article/1067294
Amnesty calls on Canada to arrest George Bush - Americas - Al ...
Human rights organisation says Canada must prosecute former US president during October visit for "authorising torture".
english.aljazeera.net/news/.../20111012162428380639.html
Air Canada labour dispute and Government News Releases — Slaw
Listening to the radio this morning and seeing this Government of Canada newsrelease, a reasonable Canadian citizen could think that the only thing keeping ...
www.slaw.ca/.../air-canada-labour-dispute-and-government-ne...
A conversation with Siri - Page 1 - Departmental ... - IT World Canada
Checking out the new voice control features of the iPhone 4S. Also, why virtualization density doesn't keep up with processor speed, and a demo of a PC ...
www.itworldcanada.com/news/a-conversation-with.../144134
Amnesty: Canada 'required' to arrest George W. Bush | News ...
By Michel Comte OTTAWA — Amnesty International called on Canadian authorities Wednesday to arrest and prosecute George W. Bush, saying the former U.S. ...
news.nationalpost.com/.../amnesty-canada-required-to-arrest-g...
NunatsiaqOnline 2011-10-14: NEWS: Canada Council rolls out ...
But while the introduction of an Inuktitut app is good news for language advocates across Canada's North, the technology that supports it must also be brought ...
www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/.../65674canada_council_rolls_out_c...
Canada News Centre - Environment Canada Launches Tool to ...
Today representatives from Environment Canada joined with His Worship, Peter Kelly, Mayor of the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM), to officially launch the ...
news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?mthd=tp&crtr.page...
BBC News - Sinopec set to acquire Canadian oil and gas explorer
China's Sinopec agrees to buy Canadian oil and gas company Daylight Energy for about 2.2bn Canadian dollars ($2.1bn, £1.4bn).
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-15236010
7-Eleven takes bigger gulp of Canada | News | Financial Post
7-Eleven Inc., the largest convenience store operator in the world, is planning on taking a “Big Gulp” of the Ontario marketplace.
business.financialpost.com/.../7-eleven-set-to-launch-massive-

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