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BoC Expected To Announce It Will Leave Interest Rates Unchanged

CP | Malcolm Morrison, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.01.2013 | Canada Business
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TORONTO - The Bank of Canada is expected to announce this week that it is leaving interest rates unchanged and continue to give the impression that it...

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Why Some Cities Cost More to Live In (Ahem, Vancouver)

Mitch Parker | Posted 09.05.2012 | Canada Business
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Mitch Parker

When we see real estate prices in the news, we often get a lumped valuation of a specific city or country as a whole. The reality is that no matter how the market is performing, there will always be neighbourhoods that are increasing and ones that are in decline. Why is that? Here are few factors that can affect local real estate prices in any city.

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Libya's Sharia Law: A Different Kind of Tyranny

Peter Worthington | Posted 12.25.2011 | Canada Politics
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Peter Worthington

True democracy and Sharia law are irreconcilable. Women are officially inferior. Apostasy -- the changing of religions, or abandoning Islam for Christianity -- is a crime. And running a country with a banking system that allows no interest payments poses problems on the international stage.

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