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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 1:28 pm ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Canada’s main opposition Liberal Party is calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government to set up a supplementary national pension plan as part of efforts to increase retirement savings.
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Marketwire - Mon Dec 7, 12:12 am ET
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 7, 2009) - Editors Note: There is one video, one report, and one audio file associated with this Press Release. In a report released today, An Economic Tsunami: The Cost of Diabetes in Canada , the Canadian Diabetes Association has introduced an important new tool in the fight against diabetes in Canada: the Canadian Diabetes Cost Model. The Model details the ...
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Tue Dec 8, 9:06 am ET
TORONTO----The Canadian Innovation Exchange , Canada’s most important gathering place for innovative technologies, announced CognoVision as Canada’s 2009 Innovation Leader. Voted by industry peers, CognoVision was chosen out of the Top 20 Most Innovative Companies in Canada, who were carefully selected from coast-to-coast to represent the country’s most cutting-edge technology entrepreneurs and ...
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 10:43 am ET
Next year's summit of the Group of 20 developed and developing nations -- which Canada is co-chairing with South Korea -- will be held in Toronto on June 26 and 27, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Monday.
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Marketwire - Tue Dec 8, 12:13 pm ET
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 8, 2009) - The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, will address the Canadian Club of Ottawa on Canada's place in the world. /T/ CORRECTION Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Time: 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Minister to speak at 12:30 p.m. Location: The Fairmont Chateau Laurier Ballroom 1 Rideau Street Ottawa, Ontario /T/
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UPI - Tue Dec 8, 12:03 pm ET
OTTAWA, Dec. 8 (UPI) -- The Bank of Canada said Tuesday it was maintaining its one-quarter percent interest rate and said it plans to leave it there until the second quarter of 2010.
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 9:28 am ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Following is the text accompanying the Bank of Canada’s decision to leave its benchmark overnight rate target at 0.25 percent. The statement was released today in Ottawa.
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 9:55 am ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian housing starts increased to the highest level this year in November as builders began work on more single-family homes, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said.
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Nasdaq - Tue Dec 8, 3:32 pm ET
OTTAWA -(Dow Jones)- Canada's chief negotiator at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen defended Canada's emissions record Tuesday and struck a cautious tone about progress toward a global emissions agreement on the first day of negotiations.
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Bloomberg - Tue Dec 8, 9:31 am ET
Dec. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Shares of the following companies may have unusual moves in Canadian trading . Stock symbols are in parentheses. Bank of Nova Scotia (BNS CN): Canada’s third-largest bank reported fourth-quarter profit excluding some items of 83 cents a share, missing the average analyst estimate by 4.8 percent, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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UPI - Mon Dec 7, 2:15 pm ET
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Asia is becoming the world's new economic engine as western nations experience slower growth.
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Marketwire - Thu Dec 3, 10:04 am ET
TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 3, 2009) - Today, more than 500 Canadian scientists issued an open letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper warning him of the dangers of climate change and calling on his government to do more to fight it. "The most recent research tells us that climate change is happening even faster than we predicted", said Andrew Weaver, Canada Research Chair in Climate ...
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FMQB - Tue Dec 8, 4:17 pm ET
A lawsuit filed in Canada accuses the Canadian divisions of the world's largest record labels of failing to pay licensing fees to artists whose songs are included on compilation CDs.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mon Dec 7, 3:25 pm ET
Canadian building intentions soared past expectations in October, with the value of building permits rising 18 percent from September due largely to strength in nonresidential projects, Statistics Canada said on Monday.
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Marketwire - Tue Dec 8, 5:13 pm ET
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 8, 2009) - Backgrounder: Actions to Date on Bisphenol A (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/ahc-asc/media/nr-cp/_2009/2009_198bk1-eng.php) The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health, today announced that Canada will be hosting a World Health Organization meeting of scientific experts to discuss Bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging. The ...
