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- Scotiabank boosts stake in Peruvian bank
Bank of Nova Scotia said yesterday that it is exercising its previously arranged option to buy an Italian bank's stake in Scotiabank Peru. Scotiabank will pay about $200-million to buy the shares from Intesa Sanpaolo SpA, bringing the Canadian bank's
- Crashing copter kills student mailing letter home to Kenya
TORONTO, VANCOUVER AND CRANBROOK, B.C. - At 6 foot 9, and one of the few black residents in Cranbrook, B.C., Isaiah Otieno stood out like few others. The 23-year-old Kenyan, an international student who arrived in the small community just two years ago
- Jos can you see? Bush's Trojan Taco
Psst! George Bush has a secret. While the Democrats are pounding each other to a pulp in Pennsylvania, the president has snuck back down to New Orleans for a meeting of the NAFTA Three: the Prime Minister of Canada and the President of Mexico. You?re
- Canada set to recognize 1930s Ukrainian famine as genocide
OTTAWA - Canada is poised to formally recognize as a genocide the 1930s famine in Ukraine that claimed millions of lives. Conservative MPs are planning to support a private member's bill introduced by Manitoba Tory MP James Bezan, a senior government
- Canada, U.S. acting just as bad as al-Qaida, says ex-general
Canada and the United States have sunk to the moral equivalent of terrorists in their handling of a young Canadian held at Guantanamo Bay, says Liberal senator and ex-general Romeo Dallaire. Dallaire says the two countries have flouted human rights and
- Help us keep Afghanistan poppy-free, Afghan ambassador asks
Afghanistan's ambassador wants Canada and other members of the international coalition fighting in his country to offer incentives to Afghan farmers as a way to ensure poppy-free regions remain that way. Omar Samad said there are about 2 provinces now in
- Helicopter crash kills 4 in Canada
A helicopter plunged to the ground and burst into flames in a residential neighborhood in western Canada on Tuesday, killing three on board and a pedestrian on the street.
- Canada to recognize Ukrainian famine as a genocide
A senior government official tells The Canadian Press that Conservative MPs are planning to support a private member's bill introduced by Manitoba Tory MP James Bezan. It's a shift from last fall when a government official said they had no plans to
- Scotiabank buys Intesa Sanpaolo stake in Peru bank
TORONTO (Reuters) - Bank of Nova Scotia is buying Intesa Sanpaolo SpA's shares in Scotiabank Peru, which will increase the Canadian bank's stake to nearly 100 percent, it said on Tuesday. Scotiabank said its stake in Scotiabank Peru will rise to 98
- Khadr's mother not surprised by U.S. bounty
TORONTO - Abdullah Khadr's mother says she's not surprised the Americans paid Pakistan a bounty to arrest her son. What was surprising, she says, was the amount half a million dollars. Maha Elsamnah says she didn't realize her son was that important to
- Canada court says U.S. likely paid bounty on suspect
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian Federal Court said on Monday that Pakistan appears to have received a $500,000 bounty from the United States for the capture of Abdullah Khadr, a Canadian wanted on charges of working with al Qaeda against U.S. forces in
- General proclaims progress in Afghan mission
Canada's outgoing commander in Afghanistan believes he's ending his tour with real progress being achieved in some of Kandahar's toughest districts. In the Zhari and Panjwaii districts, families that left because of conflict are now returning to their
- TD Bank reaffirms U.S. banking profit forecast
TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD.TO: Quote) reiterated its full-year U.S. earnings forecast on Tuesday despite economic uncertainty, as the Canadian bank pushes south of the border with its recent purchase of Commerce Bancorp. Speaking at a
- Brookfield To Establish U.S. Headquarters In Massachusetts
Gatineau, Quebec-based Brookfield Renewable Power, a private owner-operator of renewable energy facilities, is establishing its U.S. operating headquarters in Marlborough, Mass. The company plans to create at least 100 new jobs at the new headquarters
- Public funeral for fallen soldier to be held Friday
The family of the latest Canadian soldier to be killed in Afghanistan has decided to have a public funeral for him on Friday. A memorial for Cpl. Michael Starker, a Calgary paramedic, will be held at the Roundup Centre in Stampede Park at 2 p.m. MT.
- Toronto bourse eyes China office to boost listings
By Kirby Chien BEIJING (Reuters) - Canada's biggest stock market operator, TSX Group Inc, said on Tuesday it was considering opening an office in China, its fastest growing source of new listings. It would join a small group of global exchanges that have
- Canada offers condolences to China over earthquake
OTTAWA, May 12 (Xinhua) -- Canada offered condolences to China over the heavy life and property losses in a devastating earthquake that hit its southwest Sichuan province on Monday. 'We are greatly saddened by the news that thousands lost their lives and
- Canada court says U.S. likely paid bounty on suspect
(Reuters)
Reuters - The Canadian Federal Court said on
Monday that Pakistan appears to have received a $500,000 bounty
from the United States for the capture of Abdullah Khadr, a
Canadian wanted on charges of working with al Qaeda against
U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
- Aid agencies plead for Myanmar entry visas
Military junta has imposed such heavy restrictions that the flow of relief supplies is little more than a trickle GEOFFREY YORK With a report from Matthew Trevisan in Toronto BANGKOK -- Veteran relief worker Paul Heymans struggles to remain calm as he
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Reuters - Officials at the Calgary Zoo
remained baffled on Tuesday as they tried to puzzle out just
why 34 of their stingrays suddenly died.
AFP - Tickets, check. Passports, check. Luggage, check. Baby ... oops.
Reuters - Cleveland Indians second baseman
Asdrubal Cabrera turned a rare unassisted triple play on
Monday, recording all three outs in the fifth inning of a 3-0
loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday.
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