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Germany and Canada win WC skeleton racesLAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) - The home-ice advantage for the U.S. skeleton team vanished for the second straight week in World Cup competition and Canada and Germany took advantage in the snowless Adirondack Mountains. With the Winter Olympics in... In this article: World Cup, John Daly, Canada, Germany, United States, and Lake Placid |
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Reuters | 4 hours ago
Lesbian U.S. deserter to get new Canada hearing
Reuters top ten news stories delivered to your inbox each day. Lesbian U.S. deserter to get new Canada hearing OTTAWA (Reuters) - A Canadian court ordered a new refugee hearing on Friday for a U.S. Army deserter who claimed she would...
In this article: Thomson Reuters, All rights reserved, Immigration and Refugee Board, Small business, U.S. Army, NYSE, and Nasdaq
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UPDATE 1-Canada budget to stay course on stimulus- Flaherty
...this country could take, and would clearly put our country at risk," he said. "It would also be an abdication of the commitment Canada and all G20 nations made to collectively complete our coordinated and substantial stimulus plans."
In this article: Jim Flaherty, Tax, Toronto, and South Korea
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Canada to have vaccine soon for half population
...sent by end of next week * GlaxoSmithKline has the contract to supply H1N1 vaccines Enough H1N1 flu vaccine for almost half of Canada's population will have been shipped out by the end of the next week, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq...
In this article: GlaxoSmithKline
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CANADA STOCKS-Resources seen weighing on TSX
...lifted prices more than 9 percent this month was kept in check by a recovery in the dollar index <. DXY>. [nLK597783] CANADA'S ECONOMY Canada's economy performed worse than expected in the third quarter and while now recovering, it risks...
In this article: TSX, DELL INC, Toronto, Mark Carney, Bank of Canada, Celestica Inc, S&P, and Manulife Financial
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PRESS DIGEST - Canada - Nov 20
...does not vouch for their accuracy. THE GLOBE AND MAIL: The Harper government is training its guns on a diplomat whistleblower who says Canada was complicit in the torture of captured Afghan prisoners, trying to undermine Richard Colvin's...
In this article: Manulife Financial Corp, Waste, Unemployment, The Globe and Mail, National Post, Financial Post, Cancer, and Jim Flaherty
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Canada says economic rebound likely delayed
* Flaherty agrees economy was flat in Q3 * Bank of Canada forecast looks overly optimistic By Louise Egan Canada's economic turnaround will likely materialize in the fourth quarter, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Thursday, one...
In this article: Jim Flaherty, Bank of Canada, Mark Carney, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, and New York
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AP Online | 1 day ago
Diplomat: Canada handed over Afghans for torture
...A former senior Canadian diplomat in Afghanistan said Wednesday that top-ranking Canadian officials ignored evidence that prisoners Canada handed over to Afghanistan's intelligence service a few years ago were tortured. Intelligence officer...
In this article: Detainee, Laurie Hawn, Afghanistan, Kandahar, Taliban, Stephen Harper, Allegation, and Rick Hillier
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washingtonpost.com | 2 days ago
Canada turned blind eye to Afghan abuses: diplomat
...- Senior Canadian military and government officials ignored evidence that Afghan authorities were torturing detainees handed over by Canada's troops and then tried to silence those who raised the alarm, a senior diplomat said on Wednesday.
In this article: Detainee, Allegation, Ottawa, Afghanistan, Kandahar, House of Commons, and Taliban
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UPDATE 1-Canada regulator urges caution on bank buybacks
...failure could hurt the economy -- and then charged a capital surtax. But she declined to say whether Canada would "opt out" of any rules it disagrees with, saying it was too early to conclude what form the final regulations would take. In...
In this article: Conservatism, Balance sheet, Bankruptcy, Royal Bank of Canada, Bank of Nova Scotia, and Toronto Dominion Bank
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Canada (pronounced: /ˈkænədə/) is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean. It is the world's second largest country by total area and its common border with the United States to the south and northwest is the world's longest.
The land occupied by Canada was inhabited for millennia by various groups of Aboriginal people. Beginning in the late 15th century, British and French expeditions explored, and later settled along, the Atlantic coast. France ceded nearly all of its colonies in North America in 1763 after the Seven Years' War. In 1867, with the union of three British North American colonies through Confederation, Canada was formed as a federal dominion of four provinces. This began an accretion of provinces and territories and a process of increasing autonomy from the United Kingdom. This widening autonomy was highlighted by the Statute of Westminster of 1931 and culminated in the Canada Act of 1982, which severed the vestiges of legal dependence on the British parliament.
- Name:
- Canada
- Local Name:
- Canada
- Capital:
- Ottawa
- Language:
- English and French
- Motto:
- A Mari Usque Ad Mare
- Largest City:
- Toronto
- Government type:
- Federal parliamentary democracy and constitutional monarchy
- Legislature:
- Parliament
- Upper House:
- Senate
- Lower House:
- House of Commons
- Founding Date:
- December 11, 1931
- Formations:
- Canada Act
- Area:
- 3,854,085
- GDP (per capita PPP):
- $1.300 trillion
- GDP (per capita PPP) Rank:
- 13th
- GDP (nominal):
- $1.499 trillion
- GDP (nominal per capita) Rank:
- 18th
- GPD (nominal) Rank:
- 9th
- GDP (nominal per capita):
- $45,085
- Currency:
- Dollar ($)
- Demonym:
- Canadian
- Drives On:
- Right
- Currency (code):
- CAD
- Country Calling Code:
- +1
- ccTLD:
- .ca
- Anthem:
- "O Canada"
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