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Is Canada’s strong, petro-fueled dollar hurting its struggling
manufacturing sector by making Canadian exports too expensive?
Date Published: May 30, 2012 - 2:13 pm
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada's federal opposition party
leader, who has criticized the oil sands boom as harmful to the
country's manufacturing sector, prepared on Wednesday to make his
first visit to the massive resource development in Alberta, where
his comments have sparked anger. New Democratic Party leader Thomas
Mulcair, slated to tour Suncor Energy Inc's oil sands operation on
...
Date Published: May 30, 2012 - 6:37 am
MONTREAL, May 30 (UPI) -- Canada is having to replace the main firm
maintaining and servicing its fleet of Polaris transport aircraft
after the business ran into trouble, idling its plants and laying
off its work force.
Date Published: May 30, 2012 - 4:21 am
Tech Data Canada, a leading distributor of IT products, logistics
management and other value added services recently announced a
partnership with Pivot3, a top provider of unified storage and
compute appliances.
Date Published: May 30, 2012 - 3:33 am
GATINEAU, QUEBEC-- - Today, Library and Archives Canada launches
its online Portrait Portal, making available nearly 15,000
high-quality digitized images from the national portrait
collection. "I ...
Date Published: May 30, 2012 - 3:25 am
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's dollar skidded to a four-and-a-half
month low against its U.S. counterpart on Wednesday on worries
about Spain's ailing banking sector and soaring borrowing costs,
while China signaled it is not planning a large stimulus package.
Spanish government borrowing costs edged higher and the Madrid
stock market hit a nine-year low, with investors rattled by the
parlous ...
Date Published: May 30, 2012 - 12:55 am
CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - Canada only has until the end of this
decade to build up its liquefied natural gas industry or face being
overtaken by other countries looking to cash in on booming demand
for the fuel throughout Asia, Royal Dutch Shell Plc's chief
executive said on Tuesday. Shell, which plans a multibillion-dollar
liquefaction plant on Canada's West Coast, believes Ottawa's ...
Date Published: May 29, 2012 - 8:59 am
Sears Canada Inc., a unit of the cash-strapped broadline retailer
Sears Holdings Corporation, has pulled up its socks to attract
customers with a renewed focus on customer service and remarkable
modifications ...
Date Published: May 29, 2012 - 7:50 am
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's population is aging fast, and the
number of people over 65 hit a new record in 2011, official
statistics showed on Tuesday, a trend that will steepen in coming
years as baby boomers retire. Canada's overall population remains
younger than that of some of its biggest trading partners. But the
growing number of elderly is still expected to put enormous
pressure on the ...
Date Published: May 29, 2012 - 5:00 am
Earth Rangers and Nature Conservancy of Canada announce
dollarsignr500,000 donation from HSBC Bank Canada to help children
across the country Bring Back the Wild!
Date Published: May 29, 2012 - 3:00 am