| Omnibus Bill Clears First Hurdle |
| May 15th, 2012 |
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The Harper government's huge budget implementation bill has
cleared its first major legislative hurdle without further attempts
by the N-D-P to delay the vote.
The Conservatives used their majority to give the bill approval
in principle by a vote of 149-to-132... |
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| New Alzheimer's Strategy |
| May 15th, 2012 |
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Washington is adopting a landmark national strategy to fight
Alzheimer's disease.
Families and caregivers can check a new one-stop
website for easy-to-understand information about dementia and where
to get help.
The National Institutes of ... |
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| Unemployed Need To Rethink Options |
| May 15th, 2012 |
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The federal finance minister is urging the unemployed to rethink
the type of work they might consider too demeaning.
Jim Flaherty says the only bad job is no job.
He also says Canada has to increase the labour pool by
encouraging more handicappe... |
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| Facebook Ups The Ante |
| May 15th, 2012 |
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Facebook is upping the ante ahead of its scheduled plan to sell
stock to the public on Friday.
The social networking company says in a regulatory filing today
that it expects its stock will go for between 34- and 38-dollars per
share.
That'... |
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| Greece Going To New Elections |
| May 15th, 2012 |
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The socialist leader in Greece says his country is going to new
elections after negotiations to form a coalition government failed.
Evangelos Venizelos made the announcement after a meeting
convened by the country's president in a last-ditch attempt to
broker ... |
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| Home Sales Up |
| May 15th, 2012 |
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The Canadian Real Estate Association says the number of
homes sold in April was up 11.5 per cent compared to the same month
last year, when tighter mortgage rules restrained buyers.
There were nearly 49,500 homes sold last month through CREA's
members, about 5,000 m... |
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| Sea Shepherd-Watson-Arrest |
| May 14th, 2012 |
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Germany authorties arrested Canadian anti-whaling activist Paul watson Saturday. Watson,founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, is being held in custody until German authorities consider a request to extradite him to Costa... |
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| Job Satisfaction Survey |
| May 14th, 2012 |
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A Harris-Decima poll shows a majority of employees surveyed believed their boss is using the poor economy to deny them a promotion or pay raise in the next year. The new poll determined 40% of employees surveyed said their boss is using the bad economy as an excuse now.&... |
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| Quebec-student unrest |
| May 14th, 2012 |
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Quebec's Education Minister has handed in her resignation in the wake of continued student unrest over rising tuition fees. Line Beauchamp stepped down saying she no longer feels she's part of the solution. But Premier Jean Charest says that won't stop his gov... |
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| Heads Roll At JP Morgan Chase |
| May 14th, 2012 |
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J-P-Morgan Chase C-E-O Jaime Dimon is calling the
company's two-billion-dollar trading blunder ``almost'' inexcusable.
And it looks there will be no acceptable excuse for three company
executives.
The Wall Street Journal repor... |
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| Himalayan Plane Crash Claims 15 |
| May 14th, 2012 |
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A Danish woman says she had to climb over ``hands and arms'' to
get out of a plane that crashed into a mountain in Nepal's Himalayas
today.
The plane with 21 people on board was trying to land at an
airport in northern Nepal.
A gov... |
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| Saskatchewan Plane Crash A Mystery |
| May 14th, 2012 |
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The Transportation Safety Board says the mid-air collision of two
planes in Saskatchewan happened outside of radar coverage.
Regional manager Peter Hildebrand says that means there is no
clear image of what happened at the moment of impact Saturday
northeast of S... |
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| Police Acted Appropriately in G20 Riots |
| May 14th, 2012 |
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The watchdog that keeps an eye on the national police force has
deemed the R-C-M-P acted in a ``reasonable and appropriate'' fashion
during the Toronto G-20 summit.
The Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP is out with
its long-awaited i... |
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| Check the resume |
| May 13th, 2012 |
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Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is out and the company's board has named Ross Levinsohn interim CEO.
Previously Levinsohn was Yahoo's head of global media.
Thompson was under fire for listing a computer science degree he did not earn in his resume and company filings.
The b... |
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| Pot calling kettle black? |
| May 13th, 2012 |
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Critics have accused the Harper Conservatives of using their majority to hide too much Commons committee business.
However Library of Parliament data for the last decade show the Liberals under Paul Martin were even bigger leaders in secretive committee work.
And right behi... |
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| 5 killed in 2 plane crash |
| May 13th, 2012 |
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It's still unclear what went wrong before five people died in a midair collision involving two small planes in Saskatchewan.
There were no survivors and pieces of the aircraft are scattered over more than a kilometre.
Mounties began securing the crash scene after receiv... |
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| Alberta oilsands program to expand |
| May 12th, 2012 |
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A program that offers high school teachers a six-day trip to Fort McMurray to ``experience Alberta's oilsands'' is being expanded across the country.
However the industry funded program is also the focus of criticism from researcher Andrew H... |
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| Rafferty found guilty in murder of Victoria Stafford |
| May 12th, 2012 |
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Municipal officials in Woodstock, Ontario, are saying Michael Rafferty's conviction has lifted a cloud from a community scarred by the murder of eight year old Victoria Stafford.
A jury in nearby London found Rafferty guilty on all charges last night, in... |
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| Montreal smoke bombers to be charged |
| May 12th, 2012 |
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Authorities in Montreal say four suspects who are accused of disrupting the city's Thursday morning rush hour will be charged with committing a terrorism related prank.
Smoke bomb attacks crippled the subway system and yesterday, the
four turned... |
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| Harper-Job numbers |
| May 11th, 2012 |
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper says improved job numbers last month are proof his government's economic plan is working. Statistics Canada reports a net gain of more than 58-thousand jobs in April, which came on the heels of an 82-thousand job gain in March. I... |
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