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Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 9, 3:38 pm ET
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - 12/09/09) - The Public Health Agency of Canada today launched a new television advertisement to encourage Canadians to get the H1N1 vaccine. The ad is part of a comprehensive citizen awareness campaign. It will be broadcast widely across Canada in the coming days. Information at the following link may be of interest if you are filing a story on this subject. http ...
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Marketwire - Mon Dec 7, 3:12 pm ET
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Dec. 7, 2009) - The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, will address the Canadian Club of Ottawa on Canada's place in the world. /T/ Date: Tuesday, December 8, 2009 Time: 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Minister to speak at 1:00 p.m. Location: The Fairmont Chateau Laurier Ballroom 1 Rideau Street Ottawa, Ontario /T/
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Marketwire - Wed Dec 9, 10:12 am ET
TORONTO--(Marketwire - December 9, 2009) - Atlantic Wind and Solar Inc. ( PINKSHEETS : AWSL ) is pleased to report that its 47.5%-owned Canadian affiliate Hybridyne Power Systems Canada Inc. (HPSC) has commissioned the first Hybrid Renewable Energy Supplemented Data center in North America. The groundbreaking system was constructed over the past 6 months for Pizza Pizza Limited. A Unique Green ...
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Reuters via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 4:34 pm ET
Canada has not shipped any of its new flax crop to its top market, the European Union, because of concerns about genetically modified (GMO) material, the Flax Council of Canada said on Wednesday.
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Marketwire via Yahoo! Finance - Wed Dec 9, 11:55 am ET
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - 12/09/09) - The Honourable Leona Aglukkaq, federal Minister of Health, along with Dr. David Butler-Jones, Chief Public Health Officer of Canada, and Dr. Danielle Grondin, Infectious Disease and Emergency Preparedness at the Public Health Agency of Canada, will provide an update on the H1N1 flu virus. Media are invited to attend via teleconference. Please call ...
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WEAU Eau Claire - 6 minutes ago
Lawmakers working on the health care overhaul debating a measure that would allow importation of low-cost prescription drugs from Canada and other countries.
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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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AFP via Yahoo! News - Wed Dec 9, 3:30 pm ET
Canada's top general revealed on Wednesday that his military knew of at least one detainee who was tortured after being transferred into Afghan custody.
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Bangor Daily News - 2 hours 16 minutes ago
PORTLAND, Maine -- Animal protection advocates are urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to force Maine officials to do something to curb trapping to avoid harming Canada lynx. The Animal ...
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Bloomberg - Thu Dec 10, 1:53 am ET
Dec. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Australia’s sovereign wealth fund said it may join the unsolicited A$6.8 billion ($6.2 billion) bid to acquire Transurban Group by Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
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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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Marketwire - 52 minutes ago
SAINT-GEORGES, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Dec. 10, 2009) - Representatives of the media are invited to a news conference during which the Honourable Maxime Bernier, Member of Parliament for Beauce, will announce on behalf of the Honourable Denis Lebel, Minister of State for Canada Economic Development, the awarding of funding to Mecanium Inc. /T/ Date: Monday, December 14, 2009 Time: 9:30 a.m ...
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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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Free Internet Press - 1 hour 38 minutes ago
The Bank of Canada warned Thursday that growing household debt is now the biggest risk to the country's financial system and repeated a plea for borrowers and lenders to remember that the current era of super-low interest rates won't last.
