Canada

Green Party's May ready for Hill

Canada - Toronto Sun - 6 hours 17 min ago
Elizabeth May is looking forward to moving on to the greener pastures of Parliament Hill.
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Wireless wars about to escalate

As the first of two well-entrenched cable incumbents to bring on wireless services this year and next, Montreal-based Vidéotron’s long-awaited entrance into Quebec’s wireless market represents a significant shift for the industry.
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Job market at its brightest in nearly 2 years

Canada - Canada.com - National - 6 hours 35 min ago
Canada’s jobs market for the final months of 2010 looks the brightest it has in almost two years, according to a quarterly survey released Tuesday.
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Not too late to block tax hike

Canadian Federation of Independent Business launches campaign against Ottawa's plan to increase EI premiums to the maximum allowable level
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Casey's in talks with rival suitor

Casey's General Stores Inc. said Tuesday it has received a preliminary proposal from a "strategic third party" for a friendly deal worth US$40 a share, topping Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc.'s latest hostile bid made last week
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Ottawa to announce human smuggling strategy

Canada - CTV - 7 hours 21 min ago
Ottawa will soon announce a plan to crack down on human smugglers who transport illegal migrants into Canada, amid reports that another boat of Tamil migrants may be making its way here.
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Odds rising for rate hike Wednesday

The probability that Mark Carney, the Bank of Canada governor, will raise interest rates by 25 basis points, to 1%, increased to slightly more than 60% on Friday from less than 50% as of late August.
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High-profile battles pushing pension funds into watchdog role

Executives at Canada’s largest pension funds say they don’t want to be Canada’s market watchdog. Increasingly, however, they appear to be playing that role
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Fourth quarter hiring expected to be 'steady'

Canada - CTV - 8 hours 40 min ago
A survey of more than 1,900 Canadian employers finds 21 per cent of them expect to increase their payrolls in the fourth quarter of 2010.
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Ottawa embarrassed by catch-and-release of Somali pirates, documents

Canada - Winnipeg Free Press - 10 hours 39 min ago
OTTAWA - Ottawa was so embarrassed by the "catch-and-release conundrum" involving Somali pirates last year that it ordered the navy not to take any prisoners unless they had an iron-clad case that would stand up in court, say federal documents. The policy change happened in the spring of last
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Debate jail sentences for people-smugglers: Kenney

Canada - Canada.com - National - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 23:04
The federal government will attempt to toughen its domestic anti-smuggling law and seek a formal accord with the European Union in a two-pronged bid to contain the inflow of bogus refugee claimants, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Monday.
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Euthanasia hearings kick off in Quebec amid online debate

Canada - Canada.com - National - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 20:01
More Quebecers have responded to the online survey on euthanasia than any other topic reviewed by the provincial government, suggesting a lively, emotional debate as public hearings get under way across the province Tuesday.
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B.C. premier faces crisis over HST revelations

Canada - Toronto Star - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 19:51

Newly released documents seem to contradict the assertion by Gordon Campbell and his finance minister that it was only after the Liberals’ 2009 victory that they decided to bring in the harmonized sales tax.

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McGuinty promises parents $50 tax credit

Canada - Toronto Sun - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 19:06
Premier Dad has been emptying the pockets of Ontarians for seven years, but now he wants to return a little chump change to his fellow parents.
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Ottawa jail has higher rate of assaults

Canada - Toronto Sun - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 17:52
Severe overcrowding, bare-bones staffing and a lack of programming for inmates have made the job for prison guard more dangerous, says the union that represents corrections staff at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
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Bureaucrats ordered to track stimulus signage

Canada - Toronto Star - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 17:39

Eighteen departments and agencies had to spend hours tracking every one of more than 8,500 signs posted on stimulus spending.

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Fears loom that Ottawa job transfer may kill pay equity complaint

Canada - Canada.com - National - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 17:02
The federal government’s pay advisers have been digging into their own pockets for years to fund their battle for pay equity and now they discover their jobs may disappear.
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Biologists bag bird barf to study Arctic pollution

Canada - Canada.com - National - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 17:02
Seabird researchers looking for non-invasive ways to collect samples from birds have developed a novel technique for fulmars.
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Labour focus shifts from private to public sector

Canada - CTV - Mon, 09/06/2010 - 16:14
While the private sector bore the brunt of the economic downturn, union leaders are turning their attention to the public sector this Labour Day as deficit-obsessed governments put the squeeze on their workers.
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