11/21/2008
Gates in Canada for NATO talks on Afghanistan (AFP via Yahoo! News)
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived Thursday in Canada for NATO talks on training the local armed forces in southern Afghanistan and fighting the drug trade.
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11/20/2008
Canada's PM ready to 'do everything' to kickstart economy (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Canada and other G20 nations are prepared to "do everything necessary" to bolster the global economy, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday.
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11/20/2008
Canada to keep pressing Saudis over murder case (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Canada will keep pressing Saudi Arabia not to execute a Canadian man who has been sentenced to death by beheading in the desert kingdom, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said on Thursday.
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11/20/2008
Obese have right to 2 airline seats: Canada court (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.
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11/20/2008
Canada PM vows to do what it takes to combat crisis (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Canada will take whatever fiscal and monetary measures are needed to combat the effects of the global financial crisis, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday, predicting more economic gloom to come.
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11/20/2008
Canadian Regulators OK Bell Canada's P2P Throttling (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)
Though U.S. regulators cracked down on Comcast several months ago for what they considered to be unreasonable network management practices, Canadian regulators this week found that similar practices employed by Bell Canada are perfectly acceptable.
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11/20/2008
Too soon for fiscal stimulus in Canada: official (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Next week is too soon for Canada to have a fiscal stimulus plan in place, a senior government official said on Thursday, saying Ottawa wanted to work in coordination with others on any such package.
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11/20/2008
Canada watchdog sides with BCE on Web traffic shaping (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Canada's telecoms watchdog has sided with BCE Inc in letting the company slow down certain file-sharing traffic on wholesale networks it leases to smaller, independent service providers.
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11/20/2008
Bell Canada Buyout Finally Heads Toward Closing (New York Times)
The $50 billion takeover of Bell Canada appears to be on track to close by Dec. 11 — easing investor fears that the largest leveraged buyout in history would become another victim of the global financial crisis.
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11/20/2008
Canada budget officer sees deficits and blames Ottawa (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Canada's Conservative government will run budget deficits in the 2009/10 and 2010/11 fiscal years, the new parliamentary budget officer predicted on Thursday.
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