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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 ...

  • Canadian dollar whipsawed as market mood swings ‘from greedy to fearful’

    Global financial markets are in turmoil this morning, spooked by a weak economic reading in China and left not knowing exactly what to think about the Federal Reserve's stimulus plans. "Yesterday markets seemed unstoppable, with the rally carrying all before it," said market analyst Chris Beauchamp of IG in London."Ben Bernanke's testimony seemed to fire the starting ...

  • Lufthansa United Air Canada win EU nod for revenue-sharing pact

    Deutsche Lufthansa AG, United Airlines, Continental and Air Canada won approval from EU antitrust regulators on Thursday for their transatlantic tie-up after agreeing to give up airport slots in Frankfurt and New York.The four airlines' revenue-sharing, pricing and capacity pacts triggered an investigation by European Commission regulators four years ago, over concerns that these may result ...

  • Torontos not-so-artful dodger sends Doug Ford to do the talking

    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford waits in his car at the end of the funeral for former Toronto Sun founding editor Peter Worthington at Christ Church Deer Park on Yonge St., Toronto May 22, 2013. (Fernando Morales/The Globe and ...

  • Family of Ontario man missing in Australia pleads for army help

    The family and friends of a Canadian missing in Australia's Snowy Mountains region for more than a week are calling for additional manpower to search for the hiker. The calls came as hopes briefly rose Wednesday of finding Prabhdeep Srawn when "voices" were heard in the search area in the Kosciuszko National Park. But reports from the site in New South Wales say that poor ...

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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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  • 2nd suspect in Tim Bosma case in court today on murder charge

    A second man arrested in the death of Tim Bosma, a Hamilton father who disappeared after taking two men on a test drive, is due in court today to face a charge of first-degree murder. Bosma's remains were later found burned beyond recognition at a farm belonging to one of the suspects and police say they still don't have a motive for his death. Police say 25-year-old Mark Smich was ...

  • Via terror plot suspects due in court today

    Two suspects charged in an alleged plot to bomb a Via Rail train are scheduled to appear in a Toronto court this morning. Both 35-year-old Raed Jaser of Toronto and Chiheb Esseghaier, 30, of Montreal are expected to appear by ...

  • Rob Ford Councillors media want answers on crack issue

    Toronto Mayor Rob Ford announced Thursday that he is cancelling a special meeting in which city councillors were due to debate the casino issue. ...

  • Most Canadians would prefer to see more stay-at-home parents new poll

    Canadians want to see more stay-at-home parents, according to a new poll commissioned by the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada as it calls for governments to overhaul their approach to early childhood care. The public opinion poll found 76% of respondents believe it is best that children under six be home with a parent. It also found almost two-thirds of respondents would rather see ...

  • Departing Carney reminds us why ‘Canada works’

    Pandemonium envy His final speech in his current post was much more than a self-congratulatory valedictory address. It was a technocratic ode to his native country and an admonition to policy-makers here that the institutional framework of Canadian federalism is not to be tampered with lightly.For all our bellyaching about Dutch disease, equalization payments and employment insurance abuse, Mr. ...

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