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  • `Ageing Asia to strain worlds long-term economic growth

    The Asia-Pacific region will continue to power global economic growth in 2013, but the region's increasing ageing population will cast a shadow on the long-term development, according to a Canadian think-tank. "Productivity gains and a large, young working-age population have done much to boost Asian economic growth over the past three decades. But Asia's demographic dividend is quickly coming ...

  • Quebecers polled on ‘problem’ of religious accommodations as PQ delays introduction of Charter of Secularism

    The Parti Quebecois government, already involved in a political battle to toughen the province’s language law, has placed another emotionally charged identity issue on the back burner. The government has delayed its plan to set limits on religious accommodations until the fall and even begun referring to it in less contentious terms. The PQ campaigned last year on a promise to introduce ...

  • Iron ore copper gold potash to drive Canadian 2013 exports--EDC

    Iron ore shipments, strong copper production and a 20% increase in Ontario's gold output are expected to give a huge boost to Canada's exports, advises Canada's export credit ...

  • Anti-abortion group targets Calgary MP

    Calgary Centre-North Conservative MP Michelle Rempel’s image is on postcards featuring photos of aborted fetuses and they’re being distributed in her ...

  • Senators Alfredsson on defeating Penguins Probably not

    The Ottawa Senators will have to prolong their season in enemy territory after a disappointing 7-3 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 4, and their captain struggled to see the series ending in his team's ...

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Chicago 10 [DVD]

Chicago 10 [DVD]

Give due credit to Brett Morgen: He has taken an already well-trodden piece of recent American history and not only made it vibrant and new, but also painfully, strikingly relevant. Chicago 10, a bravura documentary-cum-polemic about the circus trial of eight (later seven) defendants ... ...

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