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  • New US meat labeling rules upsets Canada New US meat labeling rules upsets Canada

    OTTAWA - Canada has threatened "retaliatory measures" against the United States move changing the so-called country of origin labeling that would track beef and hogs through the meat processing and distribution systems, stating that it is discriminatory, a view shared by the World Trade Organisation. On Thursday, the United States Department of Agriculture issued a final modification to its ...

  • Canadian Businessman on Trial in Cuban Corruption Crackdown

    The trial of a Canadian businessman who confessed to bribing Cuban officials has begun in Havana, almost two years after his arrest in a government crackdown on corruption. The closed trial of Sarkis Yacoubian, originally from Armenia and the owner of import firm Tri-Star Caribbean, is expected to last two days. Lebanese citizen Krikor Bayassalian is a co-defendant. Foreign journalists ...

  • `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 ...

  • Mark Carney’s tribute to Canada

    Canadians are not in the habit of thinking of their country as similar to the euro zone group of countries, but Mark Carney, in his speech to the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal on Tuesday, presented Canada's monetary union, with "internal real exchange rates," as a much more successful version of the same phenomenon as the euro zone. Canada's different regions do ...

  • SNC-Lavalin sought Ottawas help to give Gadhafi’s son vice-president’s job

    Canada's flagship engineering company hoped to persuade Ottawa officials to let a Libyan dicator's son come to Canada as a temporary foreign worker, newly unsealed court documents show.In 2008, Saadi Gadhafi, the 40-year-old son of Moammar Gadhafi, was being touted as a potential "Vice-President Maghreb" for SNC-Lavalin, with the multinational's executives stating that ...

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The Godfather Part III [DVD]

The Godfather Part III [DVD]

"The Godfather ... is the first completely authentic modern myth in American cinema ..." Jake Horsley, The Blood Poets: A Cinema of Savagery, 1958-1999 ...

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  • Metro Vancouver politicians threaten to withhold $120M in TransLink funds

    Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson (l) and Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts (m) attend a regional mayors meeting in 2001. Also show is mayor Peter Fassbender from ...

  • Rycroft Time for De Rosario Team Canada to part ways

    Dwayne De Rosario is arguably the best player ever to suit up for the Canadian men's soccer team. But with injury and age not on his side, it might be time for Team Canada and the veteran striker to part ...

  • Former premier among growing list of politicians offered cash in Laval

    Radio-Canada's investigative program Enqute has discovered that the practice of offering cash-stuffed envelopes to politicians in Laval dates back decades, with former a PQ premier adding his personal story to the growing collection. Bernard Landry says in 1976, when he was the newly-elected MNA for the Laval riding of Fabre, an individual approached him with an envelope. "He said, ...

  • Calgary school board staffs $15K New Zealand trip questioned

    Calgary's public school board says a $15,000 trip to New Zealand for its chief superintendant Naomi Johnson and two staff members was worth it. The January trip was to the five-day International Conference on Thinking, and cost roughly $5,000 for each person. Johnson also spent some time in the country on vacation, but her costs were only covered for the five days she was attending the ...

  • Texting during movie lands complainant in trouble

    A Toronto woman found herself in trouble with the police after repeatedly asking a man in a cinema to turn off his cellphone. In spite of constant reminders to turn off you cellphone some people continue to use their phones in the cinema. Lani Selick was trying to watch a film recently at the Varsity Cinema, while the man sitting next to her was constantly texting. "I leaned over and I ...

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