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03 february 2012, 17h01

Economy stagnates

Statistics Canada reported Friday that employment rose by only 2,300 jobs in January, statistically meaningless and continuing a seven-month stretch of disappointing results. [...]

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03 february 2012, 17h00

A father convicted of killing almost half of his family has joined his son in filing an intention to appeal. Mohammad Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Yahya, 42, and their son Hamed, 21, were convicted Sunday of four counts each of first-degree murder. [...]

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03 february 2012, 16h59

High court rules on corporate secrets

The Supreme Court of Canada has issued a landmark ruling on what constitutes a corporate trade secret under the Access to Information Act. The 6-3 decision makes its harder for companies that rely on exemptions in the act to block the disclosure of documents that may contain sensitive information that could hurt their business. [...]

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03 february 2012, 16h58

Canadian lawmakers display support of threatened seal hunt

A number of Canadian Members of Parliament from all parties wore pins on Thursday depicting a seal. The pins were intended to show support for Canada's much criticized sealing industry. Fisheries Minister Keith Ashfield says the industry is important to Canada's northern and eastern regions, calling it both humane and sustainable. [...]

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03 february 2012, 16h57

Apology offered in fake immigration kerfuffel

Canada's Immigration Minister Jason Kenney has apologized after it was learned six federal bureaucrats posed as new Canadians in a citizenship ceremony. The six were asked to pretend they were new Canadians for the citizenship reaffirmation ceremony broadcast on the Sun News network when not enough new immigrants showed up for the event. Mr. [...]

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03 february 2012, 16h56

Quebec warns Ottawa on pensions

The premier of the Canadian province of Quebec is urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper not to abuse his majority. Jean Charest says it's a bad idea for the federal government to act unilaterally on pension reform. [...]

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International

03 february 2012, 15h36

U.S. claims diplomatic efforts to end Syria crisis approach success

Syrian activists report that deadly clashes erupted between government troops and rebels in suburbs of the Syrian capital and villages in the country's south Friday, causing fighting that killed at least 23 people, including nine soldiers. [...]

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03 february 2012, 15h34

Egyptian soccer riot triggers more clashes

Rock-throwing protesters fought riot police through clouds of tear gas near Egypt's Interior Ministry on a second day of clashes triggered by the deaths in Port Said of 74 people. [...]

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03 february 2012, 15h32

Sudan warns of war with new neighbour

Sudan's President Omar Hassan al-Bashir said on Friday tensions with South Sudan over oil transit payments could lead to war. He told state television: "There is a possibility". He said Sudan wanted peace but added: "We will go to war if we are forced to go to war."[...]

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03 february 2012, 15h33

Iran says it will retaliate against sanctions

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warns Iran will retaliate over Western-backed oil sanctions and any threat of attack. He made the comment Friday after U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said he feared a possible Israeli strike as early as April against Iranian targets. [...]

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03 february 2012, 15h31

Somalia food crisis abates, remains severe

The United Nations said Friday that Somalia's famine is over, but the world body's Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back. [...]

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03 february 2012, 15h30

Spain imposes real estate rules

Spain's new conservative government on Friday imposed sweeping new rules it hopes will flush out bad property loans and foreclosed property from the financial system, restore confidence in banks and set the ailing economy back on track toward recovery. [...]

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Financial

03 february 2012, 16h35

Ottawa, Alberta agree on oilsands monitor

A new plan to monitor the environmental effects of the oilsands will watch for more contaminants, in more places, more often. Details were revealed Friday by federal Environment Minister Peter Kent and his provincial counterpart Diana McQueen. [...]

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03 february 2012, 16h34

Biggest oilsands project to get bigger

Imperial Oil Ltd. is going ahead with a $2-billion expansion to its Cold Lake oilsands operation in northeastern Alberta, part of a plan to double overall production by the end of the decade. The project, called Nabiye, will add 40,000 barrels per day of bitumen production when it starts up by end of 2014, a 25 per cent boost. [...]

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03 february 2012, 16h33

Machinery maker in Ontario to close

The Ontario government has confirmed that American-based heavy equipment maker Caterpillar Inc. will close its Electro-Motive plant in London, ON. Economic Development Minister Brad Duguid says he has heard Caterpillar will close the locomotive plant in London, where 450 workers were locked out Jan. 1. [...]

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03 february 2012, 16h32

Markets

Toronto Stock Exchange on Monday: 12,577 + 24. Canadian dollar: US100. Euro: $1.30. Oil: $97.74 + $1.38. [...]

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Sports

03 february 2012, 14h31

Sports

FOOTBALL Jim Daley is returning to the Canadian Football League coaching ranks. The former Saskatchewan Roughriders and Winnipeg Blue Bombers head coach has joined the Hamilton Tiger-Cats as their special-teams co-ordinator. Jeff Reinebold is also back in the league. [...]

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Weather

03 february 2012, 14h26

Weather

British Columbia on Saturday: mix sun cloud. high C7 Vancouver. Yukon: snow. Northwest Territories, Nunavut: mix sun cloud. Whitehorse -4, Yellowknife -5, Iqaluit -20. Prairies: sun. Edmonton, Winnipeg 1, Regina 0. Ontario: snow north, mix sun cloud south. Quebec: mix sun cloud. Toronto 1, Ottawa, Montreal -6. [...]

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