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Apr 11, 2012

CBC World News, Apr 11, 2012

Governor General wants new exchange program for youth
CBC.ca
(Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press) As he strode the battlefields of France where so many young countrymen gave their lives far from home in the First World War, Canada's Governor General said he'd like to give today's youth opportunity to experience ...
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Korean Airlines jet makes emergency landing in Canada after bomb threat
New York Daily News
According to the CBC report, the flight was escorted by US Air Force F-15 fighter jets. A Korean Air spokesman said he was aware of the incident but declined to comment on the reported bomb threat. Vancouver International Airport spokeswoman Alisa...
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New York Daily News
South Korean jet diverted in Canada after bomb threat: media
WAMC
(Reuters) - A Korean Air passenger jet made an emergency landing at aCanadian military airbase after the airline's Los Angeles office received a bomb threat by telephone, Canadian media said on Tuesday. CBC said Korean Air flight 72 diverted to the ...
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CBC's Connect and Dispatches among cuts
Hamilton Spectator
CBC says $10 million will be cut from news on all platforms while $21.3 million in cuts will come from non-news TV including 18 positions in the documentary unit. “It's not a good day for CBC,” said Marc-Philippe Laurin, president of theCanadian Media ...
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The Puck is in your Palm with the Playoffs on your Smartphone
MarketWatch (press release)
Available on Rogers smartphones through iTunes, Google Play and BlackBerry® App World, the app streams CBC's Hockey Night in Canada* broadcasts of the 2012 playoff games. For a subscription fee of $5/month, fans can enjoy unlimited hours of viewing ...
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CBC programming bears brunt of budget cuts
MetroNews Canada
The CBC building in Toronto is shown in this Wednesday, April 4, 2012 photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette TORONTO – Big budget cuts at theCBC are putting “everything” on the chopping block — including hit shows “Republic of Doyle” and “Heartland ...
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Baby rotavirus vaccine bill should be covered
CBC.ca
(CBC) Gastroenteritis in babies often results in severe dehydration that requires admission to hospital. In developing countries, the extremely contagious virus kills more than 450000 per year, researchers say. Everyone in the world gets the virus by ...
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How Canada Exports Death and Disease to the Developing World
truthout
How India is meant to exceed safety standards that have never been met in any first world nation, including Canada, is not explained by the mayor. And despite his warm assurances, when a CBC documentary actually went inside an Indian factory, ...
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Narconon Trois-Rivieres Drug Rehab True Result
Sacramento Bee
"'Voluntary' and 'drug-free' are key words," he adds, "for the thousands of students accepted into the Narconon program around the world." Last December, Mrs. Yvonne Keller sent her son to enroll in the Narconon program (http://www.narconon.ca).
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Hockey Canada Announces 5 Distinguished Honourees
Bayshore Broadcasting News Centre
In retirement, the native of Brampton, Ont., has made a very successful transition to broadcasting, serving as a sideline reporter and analyst for CBC'sHockey Night in Canada, as well as a television analyst for female hockey during the 2010 Olympic ...
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Canada could face lawsuits if it legislates away immigration backlog
Embassy
Prime Minister Stephen Harper first spoke of "significant reform of our immigration system" at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in January. On March 7, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney gave a major policy speech to the Economic Club of ...
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Hockey on the wire
Windsor Star
Ruthven's Meghan Agosta, left, fights with Yevgenia Dyupina Tuesday duringCanada's 14-1 win over Russia at the world championships in Burlington, Vermont. Canada advanced to the semifinals with a 14-1 win over Russia Tuesday at the IIHF women's world ...
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Catholics hold one-day hunger strike to protest foreign aid cuts
Toronto Star
By Carol Goar Editorial Board In a world of noisy, Facebook-driven, traffic disrupting protests, the Good Friday fast was a quiet rebuke to Stephen Harper's government. On the darkest day of the Christian calendar, bishops, priests, nuns, ...
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Canadians willing to pay higher taxes for equality
CTV.ca
If the likes of libertarian, mike from holberg, and a few choice others are representative of the output of our education system, then Canada is in for a world of hurt in the future. Question: do you lot really beleive that drivel or are you just ...
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Cooperation, investment absent in BC education
Vancouver Sun
In a March 22 CBC radio interview, the OECD's special adviser on education policy, Andreas Schleicher, explained that "the quality of an education system can never exceed the quality of its teachers, and the quality of the teachers can never exceed the ...
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Why so few novels about money?
Toronto Star
In Canada a protagonist may earn a small salary announcing for the CBC or chopping wood. An Atwood character fiddles with dinosaurs at the ROM for pay, which is something. “Women's novels” are sometimes attacked for unfolding inside their characters' ...
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Toronto Star
The down and dirty on salmon
Montreal Gazette
She has interviewed government experts, academics and industry people inCanada and in countries including Alaska and Norway, and read dozens of studies. And since March, she has been passing on the considerable amount she has learned through weekly ...
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Science for profit: Conservatives target the National Research Council
rabble.ca
SSHRC is an arms-length funding body, which, like the CBC or Canada Post, traditionally has remained funded by the House of Commons but outside its direct authority. Parliament should allow the council to set its own agenda; not earmark funds for ...
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Reassessing John Craig, an essential Peterborough writer
Peterborough Examiner
Canadian poet Susan Musgrave once wrote that the writer's main task lies in finding a bridge to childhood. She may well have meant to include adolescence in that recipe. Certainly in the case of Peterborough author John Craig it was his ability to tap ...
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Maintaining access
Minden Times
According to the CBC, Industry Canada has said the program has achieved its purpose and is therefore being terminated. It certainly seems like the kind of program that should be ongoing, at least for struggling rural communities like Haliburton County.
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Language controversy boosts magazine readership
Montreal Gazette
Even last week, along comes the Conservative budget-slashing exercise and now the ad-free CBC is also out there on the street competing for the same advertising dollars. The poor magazine publishers must be wondering how on earth they are going to ...
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Meet David Goldbloom
Canadian Jewish News (blog)
In 1953, the famous British theatre director Tyrone Guthrie became the founding director of the now much celebrated and internationally renowned Stratford Shakespeare Festival ofCanada. On the ship that brought Guthrie to Canada, he met and befriended ...
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Canadian Jewish News (blog)
They don't let facts get in the way
Toronto Star
Rory McRandall, Bancroft Email Print Add to Favourites Report an error Rss Top Stories: Editorial Cartoons A new Canadian survey on the rich/poor gap and taxes should spark debate Video: Heather Mallick on the CBC Environment gets the austerity ...
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Toronto Sports Media Day In Review
Toronto Sports Media
... brand — everything from calling media “scum bags” and “bastards” to those who ask “gutless and ignorant” questions to his widely criticized “quietly and professionally” approaching the CBCover Don Cherry and Ron MacLean on Hockey Night in Canada.
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Favourite children's classic comes to life
Maple Ridge News
Broadcast on CBS in the United States and CBC in Canada, Busytown Mysteries features lovable characters and focuses on preschool problem solving and learning. “Its delightful stories have been enjoyed by children in more than 80 countries around the ...
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Electric Sky digs up “Youngest Undertaker” sales
Realscreen
Elsewhere, GMarsh TV Productions' Waking the Titanic (1 x 52-minutes, HD) has been picked up by CBC News Network inCanada and a further five territories, including France, Portugal, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. The distributor has also penned deals ...
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Realscreen
Dismembering the CBC – The Conservative Hatchet Job on Canadian
By The Arbourist
“The billion plus the Government spends on the CBC, on our behalf, is some of the best money ever spent. We get terrific value for that money, world-class journalism, world news coverage, unparallelled coverage of Canadian newsnational, ...
Dead Wild Roses
CBC's 'Connect' and 'Dispatches' scrapped | The Chronicle Herald
By gsutherland
April 10, 2012 - 3:58pm By THE CANADIAN PRESS. 0. Select rating, Cancel rating ... CBC News Network's 'Connect with Mark Kelley'' and CBC Radio's 'Dispatches' are among a swath of cuts reportedly hitting the public broadcaster in the wake of the federal budget. (NATHAN DENETTE ... “But we're living in a world where some technologies and other opportunities are making us be able to produce things, particularly in a live kind of way, more inexpensively. So we're going to push ...
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Canada ranks 5th on 'happiness' survey - World - CBC News
If you've been feeling happy lately, don't be surprised —Canada, according to a United Nations survey, is one of the happiest nations on the planet. Canada ...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/.../canada-happy-survey-says.html
Canadian on U.S. death row faces uphill battle for clemency - World ...
The only Canadian on death row in the United States has a clemency hearing in less than a month, but a leaked document obtained by The Canadian Press ...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/.../canadian-death-row-us.html
Stricken cruise ship arrives in Malaysian port - World - CBC News
A luxury cruise ship stranded at sea for 24 hours because of a fire safely reached a Malaysian port where police and embassy officials stood by Sunday to help ...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/.../cruise-ship-azamara-canadians.htm...
Vimy Ridge ceremony draws thousands of Canadians - World - CBC ...
Thousands of Canadian students joined the Governor General and the minister of veterans affairs in France to mark the 95th anniversary of the Battle of Vimy...
www.cbc.ca/.../vimy-ridge-anniversary-canada-johnston.html
Canadian students stage Vimy march through London - World - CBC ...
CBC News Navigation ... Canadian students stage Vimy march through London... The First World War battle, which left 3600 Canadian soldiers dead, has come ...
www.cbc.ca/news/.../vimy-ridge-students-march-london.html
China trial begins for ex-fugitive returned from Canada - World ...
The man who battled deportation from Canada for a decade after being accused of heading China's largest-ever smuggling ring is on trial.
www.cbc.ca/news/.../china-canada-lai-changxing-trial.html
Does cutting foreign aid threaten Canada's reputation in the world ...
Budgets may be all about looking ahead, but for those concerned aboutCanada's place in the world last week's federal budget seems to take several steps back ...
www.cbc.ca/news/.../f-international-aid-federal-budget.html
Dead killer whale possibly linked to Canadian war games - World ...
The bloodied and battered corpse of a young killer whale whose death may be linked to Canadian war games has prompted an investigation by U.S. authorities.
www.cbc.ca/news/.../killer-whale-military-investigation.html
CBC's Adrienne Arsenault on famine reporting, tight deadlines ...
Skip to main content; Skip to CBC accessibility page ... questions and get answers from the CBC News team, journalists across Canada and around theworld.
www.cbc.ca/.../cbcs-adrienne-arsenault-on-working-in-famine...
Sloth photobombs volunteers in Costa Rica - World - CBC News
A team of international student volunteers posing for a portrait at the end of their sojourn in Costa Rica are joined by a surprise intruder: a sloth, who ...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/.../photo-sloth-bomb.html
Canadian on cruise ship describes 'sense of panic' - World - CBC ...
Passengers aboard a luxury cruise ship who were left stranded near Malaysia by an engine fire experienced a heavy sense of panic as they were told to don...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/.../cruise-ship-day2.html
Is it time to start easing sanctions on Burma? - World - CBC News
The weekend byelection victories by pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi and her party bode well for the prospect of further reforms in Burma. But Burma ...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/.../f-burma-analysis-future.html
Nahlah Ayed: Look who's saving the world – not Canada ... - CBC.ca
As Western economies retrench, the fast-rising economies of the developingworld are shouldering a growing share of aid to the world's poor. Are we really OK ...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/.../f-vp-ayed-foreign-aid.html
Mitt Romney sweeps 3 Republican primaries - World - CBC News
Mitt Romney has tightened his grip on the Republican presidential nomination, winning primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia.
www.cbc.ca/news/.../republican-primaries-obama-romney.htm...
Obama signs law banning congressional insider trading - World ...
President Barack Obama signs the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act, Wednesday, April 4, 2012, in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/.../obama-stock-act.html
Christians mark Easter in Jerusalem march - World - CBC News
Christians, including church leaders and Franciscan monks, marked Easter Saturday by marching through Jerusalem's Old City in a procession that began at the ...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/04/.../vid-sepulchre.html
22 Minutes producer hopes CBC will reconsider cuts
Skip to main content; Skip to CBC accessibility page ... CBC News Canada ...Canada for satire and for Canadian content, satire in this conservative worldwe're ...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova.../ns-donovan-studio-cut.html
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