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Montreal Gazette
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:08:15 -0800
By Robert Hiltz, Postmedia News December 4, 2011 Officials in the US embassy in Ottawa worry that unless Canada gets a comprehensive policy for dealing with First Nations rights, tension between Aboriginals and governments will continue to fester and ...
Market Watch
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:03:48 -0800
By Dow Jones Among the companies whose shares are making notable moves in Monday's session are Research In Motion Ltd. /quotes/zigman/18534/quotes/nls/rimm RIMM +1.49% and Frontier Rare Earths Ltd. . Research In Motion ($16.67, -$0.10, -0.6%), ...
Globe and Mail
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:39:08 -0800
Statistics Canada data released Monday show that tax filers claimed donations of just under $8.3-billion in 2010, up 6.5 per cent from 2009. At the same time, the number of donors increased 2.2 per cent to just over 5.7 million Canadians, ...
Vancouver Sun
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:21:27 -0800
"The court will have seemingly something to say about how fair dealing is interpreted in Canada , with huge implications that extend far beyond just education," said Geist, Canada Research Chair in Internet and Ecommerce Law. The top court will have its ...
Energy Boom
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:55:24 -0800
Canada's wind industry has had a record year. According to the latest data from the Canadian Wind Energy Association (Can WEA), 1400 megawatts of wind capacity was installed in 2011, more than doubling 2010's output. With over 5400 megawatts of wind ...
Wall Street Journal (India)
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:46:22 -0800
"The bank recapitalization would help prevent contagion from those countries that are heavily indebted, and whose banking systems have been under attack," said Flaherty, as he addressed the Ireland- Canada Chamber of Commerce in Ottawa. ...
Reuters
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:18:05 -0800
The federal government has left Canada's provinces and territories in the dark about the cost of the omnibus crime bill even as the legislation heads to the Senate for approval. The controversial bill includes new mandatory minimum sentences and ...
CTV.ca
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:51:45 -0800
Such complex sleep behaviours can be dangerous because of the risk of accident, Meda Valeant Pharma Canada Inc. said in an advisory Monday. The company, in conjunction with Health Canada , is warning that certain patients should avoid taking the drug, ...
Vancouver Sun
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:00:04 -0800
By Tracy Sherlock, Vancouver Sun December 5, 2011 The gap between rich and poor is growing in Canada , and has reached its highest level in OECD countries in more than 30 years, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development announced Monday. ...
Pharmaceutical Business Review
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:27:42 -0800
Pivotal Therapeutics, a specialty pharmaceutical company, has received its product license and NPN number for Omazen from Health Canada . The move by the agency will authorize the sale of product in the Canadian market. Omazen is EPA:DHA fatty acid ...
24 Hours Vancouver
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:06:36 -0800
By erica bulman, 24 HOURS Canada Border Services Agency announced Monday it has intercepted 19 marine containers that have tested positive for low levels of man-made radiation over the past two months. The containers, carrying cargo contaminated with ...
National Post
Sun, 04 Dec 2011 17:33:23 -0800
Team USA versus Canada in the championship match of the Roller Derby World Cup in Toronto, Ontario, Sunday, December 4, 2011. Team USA beat team Canada in the final. After a weekend of crushing and lopsided victories for both teams, it was surprising ...
Montreal Gazette
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:46:50 -0800
By Keith Fraser, Postmedia News December 5, 2011 vancouver a surrey, BC, RCMP officer is suing the province's solicitor-general's ministry, the attorney-general of Canada and three RCMP officers, alleging she was harassed, demeaned and belittled by ...
Electronic Technology & Products
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:59:31 -0800
Key representatives from the alternative energy industry gather this week at Solar Canada 2011, (Dec. 5-6) at the Metro-Toronto Convention Centre, showing support for the solar industry and the future it provides. "We are pleased to see the importance ...
Business Week
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:57:06 -0800
5 (Bloomberg) -- Canada is open to changing its law governing foreign takeovers to provide more certainty to companies considering purchases of Canadian firms, Industry Minister Christian Paradis said. The federal government reviews foreign ...
Globe and Mail
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:00:53 -0800
Air Canada's AC.BT business model is broken and its employees must be open to change for the airline to stay competitive, its top executive warns in a stark internal memo that compares the carrier's challenges to those of insolvent American Airlines ...
mediacaster
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:24:09 -0800
Telefilm Canada is a federal cultural agency dedicated to developing and promoting the Canadian audiovisual industry. Telefilm provides financial support to the private sector to create distinctively Canadian productions that appeal to domestic and ...
UPI.com
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:11:06 -0800
5 (UPI) -- Canada's spy agency believed cases against terror suspects could fall apart if it could not use information obtained by torture, rights advocates allege. Advocates for five men arrested under so-called security certificates say they were ...
Winnipeg Free Press
Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:31:38 -0800
The old Soviet Union may have been just as familiar with Canada's Arctic waters as Canadians. Sections of Cold-War-era nautical charts obtained by The Canadian Press suggest that Russian mariners have for decades possessed detailed and accurate ...
Canadian Business.com
Mon, 05 Dec 2011 13:36:30 -0800
The canadian press/Larry Mac Dougal TORONTO - Three of Canada's largest airlines reported strong passenger traffic in November. Air Canada (TSX:AC.A) says system traffic was up 3.0 per cent from November 2010, lead by increases in its domestic markets ...
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Canada ( / ˈ k æ n ə d ə /) is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area. Canada's common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the longest in the world.
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Canada- A country in North America; official name: Canada.
- (historical) Lower Canada or Upper Canada, often "the Canadas". Also Canada East or Canada West.
- Canuckistan, Soviet Canuckistan
- Great White North
- neighbor to the north
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Gary Ng, iphoneincanada.ca
2011-12-19 03:48:44
The Wall Street Journal is reporting Apple executives have met to discuss its television plans with media executives from major companies in recent.
What stops Canada and Canadians from addressing environmental issues?
Q. What stops Canada and Canadians from addressing environmental issues? I think we could be a green country someday but what stops us from being so? This is a serious question by the way, it's not homework. I want to know what the young people think.
Asked by seeleeree - Tue Jan 25 00:17:48 2011 - Homework Help - 1 Answers - Comments
A. I'm not a young person but the answer to your question is clearly money and politics. Our prime minister and many of his MPs are from Alberta which gets about half its income from the tar sands. No way they are ever going to seriously slow the booming expansion going on up north. All politicians to pay lip service to environmental issues but they duck for cover if votes are threatened. Take the cruel Canadian commercial seal hunt carried out by non-native Newfoundlands every spring. It involves the savage slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups for their skins and has been condemned around the world. Well, every single member of parliament supports it because they're all afraid of losing votes in Atlantic Canada. I can't imagine… [cont.]
Answered by David Stanley - Tue Jan 25 23:59:45 2011
Q. What stops Canada and Canadians from addressing environmental issues? I think we could be a green country someday but what stops us from being so? This is a serious question by the way, it's not homework. I want to know what the young people think.
Asked by seeleeree - Tue Jan 25 00:17:48 2011 - Homework Help - 1 Answers - Comments
A. I'm not a young person but the answer to your question is clearly money and politics. Our prime minister and many of his MPs are from Alberta which gets about half its income from the tar sands. No way they are ever going to seriously slow the booming expansion going on up north. All politicians to pay lip service to environmental issues but they duck for cover if votes are threatened. Take the cruel Canadian commercial seal hunt carried out by non-native Newfoundlands every spring. It involves the savage slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seal pups for their skins and has been condemned around the world. Well, every single member of parliament supports it because they're all afraid of losing votes in Atlantic Canada. I can't imagine… [cont.]
Answered by David Stanley - Tue Jan 25 23:59:45 2011
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