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Powerful U.S. Lumber Lobby Could Stomp Canada's Trade Bid

CP | Wendy Cox, The Canadian Press | Posted 06.11.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: Canada TPP, Canada Lumber, Cp, Vancouver, Canada U.S. Lumber, Pacific Free Trade Canada, Canada Pacific Free Trade, 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement, Softwood Lumber Dispute, Zoltan Van Heyningen, U.S. Lumber Lobby, Trans-Pacific Partnership, B.C. Lumber Trade Council, John Allan, Softwood Lumber, U.S. Lumber, Canada Business News

VANCOUVER - The powerful softwood lumber lobby in the United States is suggesting it could thwart Canada's efforts to join a Pacific free trade zone i...

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Canada And U.S. Cut Softwood Lumber Deal

CP | Julian Beltrame, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.24.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - Canada and the United States have bought two extra years of relative peace on the lumber front.The two governments agreed Monday to extend th...

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B.C. Lumber Exports To China SKYROCKET

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.19.2012 | Canada Business
Read More: B.C. China Lumber, Jobs Minister Pat Bell, B.C. China Trade, Softwood Lumber Exports, BC Lumber, B.C. Lumber Exports, Softwood Lumber, China B.C. Lumber, B.C. Lumber Exports China, Canada Business News

VICTORIA - The B.C. government says lumber exports to China have gone through the roof.It says in the first 11 months of last year, the province had s...

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Selling Out Rural Canada

Romeo Saganash | Posted 01.17.2012 | Canada Politics
Read More: Rural Communities, Ndp Leadership Race, Ndp, New Democrats, Economic Recovery, Keystone XL, Canadian Wheat Board, Softwood Lumber, Egg Farmers, Stephen Harper, Dairy Farmers, Canadian Farmers, Canada Politics News
Romeo Saganash

We proudly refer to being the second largest country in the world and one of the least densely populated. What receives less attention is the fact that with every year, more and more people are forced to leave home in rural communities to look for work elsewhere.

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