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Entries by Lauren Strapagiel from 01/2012

Rio Tinto Alcan Locks Out 800 Workers At Its Alma, Quebec Smelter

Posted 01.01.2012 | Canada Business
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ALMA, Qc - Rio Tinto Alcan locked out workers at its smelter in Alma, Que., after last-ditch contract talks collapsed Saturday and the union's contrac...

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Businesses Getting Billions In Tax Cuts Despite Rising Corporate Cash Reserves

Posted 01.01.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Tax Cuts, Conservative Tax Cuts, Corporate Canada Tax Cuts, Harper Tax Cuts, Cp, Corporate Tax Cuts Canada, Statistics Canada, Canada Business News

OTTAWA - Profitable Canadian businesses are set to reap $2.85 billion in additional income tax savings in 2012, even as Prime Minister Stephen Harper ...

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RIM's Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie And Mike Lazaridis Named 2011's Business Newsmakers For BlackBerry Woes

Posted 01.01.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: RIM 2011, RIM Newsmaker of 2011, Rim, Cp, RIM BlackBerry, Blackberry, Jim Balsillie, Blackberry Playbook, Research in Motion, Mike Lazaridis, BlackBerry Outage, Canada Business News

MONTREAL - A long, slow slide into notoriety made 2011 a sorely trying year for Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis, the two men at the top of BlackBerry...

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Canada And The Monarchy: Royal Treatment Part Of Tories' Cultural Agenda

Posted 01.01.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Prince William, Canada Patriotism, Monarchy, Canada, Conservative Patriotism, Cp, Tories Cultural Agenda, Royal Visit Canada, Tories and the Royals, Kate Middleton, Royal Visit, Royal Wedding, The-Thatcher-Years, Conservatives Monarchy, Harper Royals, Canada Royals, Canada Politics News

TORONTO - Depending who you ask, the Conservative government's high-profile attempts to strengthen Canada's ties to the monarchy over the past year ar...

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Toronto Records First Homicide Of 2012

Posted 01.01.2012 | Canada
Read More: Toronto New Years Murder, Toronto, First Murder 2012, Murder, Cbc, Toronto Homicide, Toronto Murder, New Years Murder, Canada News

Toronto has recorded its first murder of the year after a man was shot and killed in Scarborough. The shooting occurred on H...

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Electro-Motive Locks Out 420 CAW Union Members At London, Ontario Plant

Posted 01.02.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Canadian Auto Workers Union, Electro-Motive, CAW Electro-Motive Contracts, Cp, Caw, London Ontario, CAW Strike, Electro-Motive Lockout, Electro-Motive CAW Lockout, Canada Business News

LONDON, Ont. - Electro-Motive began the new year by locking out CAW members at its plant in London, Ont.Contract talks collapsed last week after locom...

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Prostitution In Canada: Pattern Of Police Repression Makes Sex Work More Dangerous, Experts Say

Posted 01.02.2012 | Canada
Read More: Prostitution, Sex Work Laws, Video, Montreal Prostitution, Cp, Robert Pickton, Prostitution Danger, Sex Work Canada, Vancouver Prostitution, Sex Work Danger, Prostitution Legality, Prostitution Canada, Prostitution Laws, Canada News

MONTREAL - It wasn't so long ago that prostitutes were a common sight on Montreal's historic lower Main, standing on street corners in high-heeled boo...

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Fender Benders In Canadian Government Vehicles Cost Feds Millions, Analysis Shows

Posted 01.02.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Government Vehicle Fender Benders, Car Accidents, Canadian Government Car Accidents, Rcmp, Cp, Government Vehicle Accidents, Fender Benders, Canada Politics News

OTTAWA - If the federal government wants to cut costs, it may want to put bureaucrats through driving school.The government's books show fender bender...

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Snow Squalls Sweep Over Southern Ontario

Posted 01.02.2012 | Canada
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The City of Toronto has issued an extreme cold weather alert, with temperatures expected to fall sharply overnight and stay cold througho...

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Bird Flu: Chinese Man Killed By H5H1 Strain That Came From Poultry, Not Human Transmission: Officials

Posted 01.02.2012 | Canada
Read More: H5H1 Transmission, H5H1, Cp, Bird Flu, Bird Flu Human Infection, Bird Flu Chickens, H5H1 China, H5H1 Chickens, Bird Flu China, Bird Flu Transmission, Canada News

BEIJING, China - The strain of H5H1 bird flu that killed a Chinese man cannot spread among people, a health agency said Monday, appealing for calm aft...

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Freedom Of Information: Ontario Hospitals To Release Executive Contracts Tuesday

Posted 01.02.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Freedom of Information Hospitals, FOI Ontario, Healthcare, Ontario Hospitals, Foi, Cp, FOI Hospitals, Freedom of Information Act, Canada Politics News

TORONTO - Most Ontario hospitals will release the employment contracts of their CEO's and other top executives today.Hospitals became subject to freed...

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Office Of Religious Freedom: Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird Office From Critics Who Question Need For It

Posted 01.02.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Religion and Politics, Canada Politics, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, John Baird, Church and State, Religious Freedom Office Baird, Cp, Office of Religious Freedom, Canada Politics News

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird says his department's new Office of Religious Freedom won't become a vehicle for playing domestic politic...

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Los Angeles Arson: Suspect Was Driving Vehicle With B.C. Licence Plates According To Reports

Posted 01.02.2012 | Canada
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LOS ANGELES, Calif. - Several media outlets are reporting that the person detained for questioning for a series of suspicious car fires in the Los Ang...

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Kathy Griffin Tells Hollywood Women To Get Over It And Admit Their Ages

Posted 01.03.2012 | Canada Living
Read More: The Hollywood Reporter, Agism, Fake Ages, Video, Age Hiding, Kathy Griffin, Hollywood Women Ages, Age Hollywood, Kathy Griffin Age, Kathy Griffin Plastic Surgery, Canada Living News

Why are some of the most successful and powerful business women and personalities in the world so afraid of a number? In an industry where youth an...

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B.C. Mother Arrested In Slaying Of Daughter In India

Posted 01.07.2012 | Canada
Read More: Jassi Sidhu Murder, B.C. Honour Killing, Cbc, Jassi Sidhu Death, Malkit Sidhu, Jassi Sidhu, Jassi Sidhu Mom, Jassi Sidhu Honour Killing, Canada News

A B.C. woman and her brother have been arrested in connection with the 2000 slaying of the woman's daughter, Jassi Sidhu, and the attempt...

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Jassi Sidhu Killing: Mother, Uncle Arrested In 2000 "Honour Killing" Of B.C. Woman In India

Posted 01.07.2012 | Canada
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VANCOUVER - The mother and uncle of a British Columbia woman murdered in India more than 11 years ago have been arrested and are awaiting an extraditi...

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Montreal Canadiens: Quebec Nationalists Protest Team's Lack Of French Cred

Posted 01.07.2012 | Canada
Read More: Canadiens French, Quebec Nationalists, Canadiens Protests, Montreal Canadiens, Cp, Nhl, Canadiens English, Habs French, Canadiens, Habs, Les Habitants. Bell Centre, Hockey, Canada News

MONTREAL - Fans filing into the Bell Centre on Saturday hoping for a Montreal Canadiens win were met by protesters with another goal in mind.They want...

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Tory MP Concedes Failed Attawapiskat Communications

Posted 01.07.2012 | Canada
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While a crisis continues to grip families living in the northern Ontario community of Attawapiskat, at least one Conservative MP acknowle...

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Alfred Pellan Paintings: Ottawa Planned To Sell Off Historic Artwork Before Quebec Outcry

Posted 01.07.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Department of Foreign Affairs Paintings, Department of Foreign Affairs, John Baird, Pellan Paintings, Cp, Pellan, Foreign Affairs Pellan, Alfred Pellan, Baird Pellan, Canada Politics News

OTTAWA - The Conservative government quietly planned to sell a pair of historic paintings by Quebec modern master Alfred Pellan after replacing them w...

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Guy-Andre Kieffer: Remains Found In Ivory Coast Could Be Missing Franco-Canadian Journalist

Posted 01.07.2012 | Canada
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ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Authorities in Ivory Coast have unearthed human remains that may be those of a French-Canadian journalist who disappeared in 20...

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Nova Scotia Churches Balk At Paying For The Sins Of The Fathers

Posted 01.07.2012 | Canada
Read More: Nova Scotia, Child Pornography, Nova Scotia Church Abuse, Roman Catholic Diocese of Antigonish, Canada News

Churches in eastern Nova Scotia are no strangers to hard times. Attendance is dwindling. The population is declining. And they inhabit one of the most...

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Oscar Bartholomew Beating Death: Grieving Mom Says Grenada Police Beat 'Quiet, Loving' Son To Death Over Hug

Posted 01.08.2012 | Canada
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ST. DAVID'S, Grenada - In the end, it may be that one of Oscar Bartholomew's trademark bear hugs sparked the tragic chain of events that led to his be...

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Operation Active Endeavour: HMCS Charlottetown Departs For Mediterranean Counter-Terrorism Mission

Posted 01.08.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: NATO Missions, Halifax NATO, Operation Active Endeavour, Cp, Canadian Navy, Counter-Terrorism, Terrorism, Hmcs Charlottetown, Canadian Forces, Canada Politics News

HALIFAX - Hundreds of loved ones gathered on the deck of HMCS Charlottetown on Sunday morning to bid farewell to sailors bound for the Mediterranean S...

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Health Care Accord: Provinces Grapple With Possibility Of A No-Accord Approach

Posted 01.08.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Provincial Health Care, Canadian Health Care, Cp, End of Health Care Accord, Health Care Accord, Canada Health Care Accord, Health Care, National Health Care, Canada Politics News

OTTAWA - The provinces are grappling with the real possibility that they may soon be delivering health services without the guidance of a formal, nati...

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Latin America Minister Diane Ablonczy Welcomes Cuban Reforms On Eve Of Tour

Posted 01.08.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Communism, Raul Castro, Canada Cuba Relationship, Cuba Trade, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Canada Cuba Trade, Cuba Reforms, Cp, Cuban President Raul Castro, Canada Politics News

OTTAWA - The Conservative minister for Latin America is softening some of the Harper government's previous tough talk on Cuba.This week, Diane Abloncz...

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