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NewsCan: For September 29 - October 5, 2006
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News from Connect2Canada
Celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving Across America
Thursday, October 5, 2006
The Connect2Canada Team
Canadians and friends of Canada are getting ready to celebrate Thanksgiving with their friends and families throughout the United States. Expat groups and clubs have planned a number of activities, ranging from traditional dinners to potluck luncheons and pub socials. A list of scheduled events is available here. If you know of an event in your area and would like to let others know, please send us a message with all of the details. The Connect2Canada Team wishes all C2C members throughout Canada and the United States a happy and healthy Thanksgiving.
Deep Discount for C2C Hockey Fans
Thursday, October 5, 2006
The Connect2Canada Team
Great news, hockey fans! Live in DC or plan on visiting DC this season? The Washington Capitals and Connect2Canada have teamed up for a second year to offer C2C members and their family and friends major discounts for tickets to upcoming Caps games vs Canadian teams. To order tickets, you must go to the special Washington Capitals-Connect2Canada site, where you can receive a great discount for all Caps home games against teams from Canada.
Special Features
Statement by the Prime Minister on the death of Private Josh Klukie
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement on the death of Private Josh Klukie.
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Canada’s New Government Toughens Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Terrorist Financing Regime
Thursday, October 05, 2006
The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, today introduced a bill to strengthen the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act to ensure Canada continues to be a global leader in combating organized crime and terrorist financing.
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Statement by the Honourable Stockwell Day on the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative
Saturday, September 30, 2006
The Government of Canada notes that United States Congress has passed the Homeland Security Appropriations Act. This legislation provides for an extension for those travelling by land and sea on the deadline for the implementation of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI).
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Minister Day applauds RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency efforts to crack down on drug and organized crime
Monday, October 02, 2006
The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of Public Safety, released this statement following the arrest last week of eight individuals in Toronto in connection with two separate investigations involving an alleged cross-border Ecstasy trafficking ring, and a cocaine smuggling scheme at Pearson International Airport.
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International News
Canadian Ambassador talks border control with Gov. Schwarzenegger
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Jim Holt, Canadian Press
Canada's ambassador to the United States, Michael Wilson, met briefly with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger Monday and wasted no time bringing up the thorny issue of stiffer border crossing rules.
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RIM boss to buy NHL's Penguins
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Paul Waldie & Sinclair Stewart, Globe and Mail
Almost 10 years ago, long before his technology company rocketed him to billionaire status, Jim Balsillie shelled out $800 for the chance to play a charity game against his boyhood idol, Guy Lafleur. He scored a goal, stuffed the puck down his pants for safekeeping, and celebrated by paying an additional $6,000 for one of Mr. Lafleur's signed jerseys.
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Canada, U.S. have growing rapport, poll finds
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Brian Laghi, Globe and Mail
Canadians and Americans appear to be warming up to each other again as friends and allies, with a majority of those polled in both countries saying Canada is now pulling its weight when it comes to protecting the border.
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NATO to take over in Afghanistan on Thursday
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Sayed Salahuddin, Reuters
NATO will assume responsibility for security across the whole of Afghanistan from Thursday when it takes command in the east from U.S.-led coalition forces, a senior NATO official said on Tuesday.
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Leahy helps win delay for northern border passport requirement
Saturday, September 30, 2006
Erin Kelly, Burlington Free Press
A plan to require travelers to show passports or special ID cards to cross the U.S.-Canada border has been delayed until June 2009.
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Three Cities, Two Countries, and Passion for One Game
Monday, October 02, 2006
Jeff Z. Klein and Karl-Eric Reif, The New York Times
If football fans were asked to name the three pro teams that are located closest to one another, excluding arena teams, most would probably answer the Jets, the Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles. But they would be wrong. The correct answer is the Buffalo Bills, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats and the Toronto Argonauts.
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Bribing your way to the bottom
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Roma Luciw, Globe and Mail
Canada retained its squeaky-clean image in a survey by a global-corruption watchdog that found companies from India were the worse offenders when it came to making bribes.
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Business and Trade
Mayor Discusses Trade With Canadian Ambassador
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
CBS 2
Canada's ambassador to the United States met with Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to discuss trade and tourism. About a million Canadians visit the Golden State annually, spending $710 million, while some 850,000 Californians visit Canada each year, Ambassador Michael Wilson said.
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Oil sands developer EnCana links with Conoco
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Reuters
Oil sands developer EnCana Corp. and ConocoPhillips said on Thursday they will create an integrated, North American heavy oil business consisting of upstream and downstream assets. EnCana, Canada's biggest independent oil and gas producer, is one of numerous developers of Canada's vast oil sands resources. EnCana said the agreement with ConocoPhillips aligns about two-thirds of its oil sands projects with a major refiner.
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Oil prices fuel pipeline projects
Friday, September 29, 2006
Jeffrey Tomich, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
TransCanada Inc. and Enbridge Energy Inc., both based in Calgary, Alberta, are
developing pipelines that would stretch from eastern Alberta to a key oil hub
in Southern Illinois. The projects would cost a combined $3 billion and pump
more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil to be processed into gasoline and other
fuels.
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MDS sells lab services division to OMERS for $1.33-bln
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Canadian Press, Globe and Mail
Life sciences company MDS Inc. has struck a deal to sell its laboratory services division for $1.33-billion to a unit of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System pension fund.
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Corel swings to Q3 profit of $5.5-million (U.S.)
Monday, October 02, 2006
Canadian Press
OTTAWA — Corel Corp. returned to profitability in the third quarter, bouncing back with the help of higher revenues boosted by recent acquisitions and recent product launches.
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CPP makes a billion-dollar water bet
Monday, October 02, 2006
Tavia Grant, Globe and Mail
A consortium that includes the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board offered about $4.1-billion (U.S.) on Monday to buy one of the largest water companies in the U.K, marking the fund's biggest infrastructure investment to date.
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Alcan to buy back 5% of its stock
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Canadian Press
Major aluminum producer Alcan Inc. said Tuesday it plans to buy back up to five per cent of its 376-million outstanding shares, as it expects continued solid cash flows going forward.
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Toyota and Honda move into auto industry Big Three
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Gred Keenan
There was a changing of the guard in the auto market in Canada last month as Toyota and Honda displaced Chrysler and Ford in the top three in the sales race.
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Canadian News
Environment Minister to discuss emissions with carmakers
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
CBC News
Environment Minister Rona Ambrose will meet representatives of Canada's car manufacturing companies on Tuesday in Ottawa, likely to talk about reducing auto emissions.
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Moosehead Breweries sending beer to Canadian troops in Afghanistan
Monday, October 02, 2006
The Canadian Press
Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan will soon be able to battle the heat of the southern Afghan desert with some beer from the largest Canadian-owned brewery.
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Home comforts bring more adults back to the nest
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
Tenille Bonoguore, Globe and Mail
Each generation of adults is more likely to return to the family nest than the last, thanks mainly to work and financial hardship or simply to help heal a broken heart. A report released by Statistics Canada on Tuesday said almost one-third of Generation Xers returned to the familial shelter within the first five years of going solo.
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CBC looks for comedy at Prairie mosque
Monday, October 02, 2006
Gayle Macdonald, Globe and Mail
The CBC has quietly ordered eight episodes of a promising -- but potentially politically controversial -- new sitcom, Little Mosque on the Prairie, about a fictional Muslim family living in rural Saskatchewan. But instead of hoisting pitchforks, rolling down hills and selling eggs at Oleson's General store like Michael Landon's Ingalls family, this transplanted clan will be trying to interact with the denizens of a little Prairie town in a post Sept. 11 world.
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Nothing to do on Monday? Stay tuned to this turkey
Thursday, October 05, 2006
Dawn Walton, Globe and Mail
Turkey TV will hit the air holiday Monday featuring nothing but a 10-pound roasting turkey surrounded by carrots, tomatoes and fresh greens in front of a traditional wood-fired oven. Highlights of this riveting new show, which does not actually offer cooking advice, includes the occasional basting by a hand.
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Opinion/Editorial
Better timetable for travel document
Monday, October 02, 2006
Toronto Star
It appears the U.S. Congress is going to give security officials in both Canada and the U.S. time to get it right in introducing mandatory travel documents.
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Canada, too, should ban harmful trans fats
Sunday, October 01, 2006
The Montreal Gazette
They're lying in wait for us: golden french fries, glazed doughnuts, flaky apple turnovers ... They're on restaurant counters, store shelves and in snack bars. The problem is most of them are dripping with trans fats. Consumed in any quantity, fats of this type are unequivocally bad for your health. And yet it has become almost impossible to avoid food made with these substances.
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Skating in circles: Dumb and dumber
Friday, September 29, 2006
Laura Robinson, Globe and Mail
How is it that the stalwart Canadian dream of playing hockey in the league that most challenges one's skills and desires is still unattainable for girls across the country?
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