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3 hrs ago | The Chronicle-Journal

Saputo, Kraft appeal court ruling upholding federal cheese regulations

Chairman of the Board of Saputo Lino Saputo addresses the company's AGM in Laval, Que., Wednesday July 6, 2008.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Cheese, Canada

12 hrs ago | The Mirror

Midland potential port for historic steamship

The S.S. Norisle, a 215-foot-long steamship owned by the Township of Assiginack on Manitoulin Island, has not cruised the Great Lakes in almost 35 years.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News,

20 hrs ago | EurekAlert!

Research calls for better assessment of tests for tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria

A rapid and accurate diagnosis is the first step towards treatment in the fight against infectious disease.

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Related Topix: HIV/AIDS, Health, Malaria, Canada,

Sun Nov 22, 2009

CBC

Derailment affects Quebec Via routes

Passenger rail service has been suspended between Montreal and Senneterre as well as JonquiA re and Montreal because of an 11-car CN freight train derailment near Saint-Tite. The accident late Saturday caused extensive damage to a railway bridge 50 kilometres north of Trois-RiviA res.

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Related Topix: Train Disaster, Canada,

Earth Times

Canadian Warship to Begin Counter-Piracy Operation

The deployment of the Halifax-based frigate is called Operation SAIPH. "The Government of Canada is proud of the significant contributions to global maritime security being made by our men and women in uniform.

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Related Topix: Piracy News, North America, Canada,

Star Phoenix

VC became too much for storied Van Doo

Paul Triquet was 33 and a captain in Canada's Royal 22nd Regiment when, on Dec. 14, 1943 in Italy, he and the tattered remains of his C Company - 81 men strong when the day began but reduced to just 14 by dusk - successfully held their foothold throughout the night at a farmhouse called Casa Berardi as overwhelming numbers of German snipers, ...

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News,

WSBT

Latinos React to New Bishop Announcement

A new Roman Catholic bishop will officially take over the Fort Wayne-South Bend Diocese in January - and Hispanic parishioners at St.

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Related Topix: Roman Catholic Church, Religion, Canada, St Joseph County, IN

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Seattle Times

Canadian woman loses benefits over Facebook photo

A Canadian woman on long-term sick leave for depression says she lost her benefits because her insurance agent found photos of her on Facebook in which she appeared to be having fun.

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Related Topix: Canada

Easton Express-Times

Stanford investors to Antigua: Remove liquidator

ST. JOHN'S, Antigua - A group of investors is urging an Antiguan court to remove a British accounting firm appointed to collect assets of a Caribbean offshore bank at the center of an alleged Ponzi scheme by Texas financier R. Allen Stanford.

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Related Topix: Canada,

CTV.ca

Pope appoints new bishop to Nova Scotia diocese

The Vatican has announced a new bishop will oversee the Catholic Church in Antigonish, N.S., replacing Raymond Lahey, who is facing child pornography charges.

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Related Topix: Canada, Sault Ste. Marie, MI

Airport Business

Bombardier's C-Series Aircraft Wing Manufacturing Facility Gets Under Way in Belfast

Bombardier Aerospace today celebrated another major milestone in the CSeries aircraft programme as construction got under way on its new state-of-the-art aircraft wing manufacturing and assembly facility in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Related Topix: World News, United Kingdom, Antrim County, Northern Ireland, Down County, Northern Ireland, Belfast County, Northern Ireland, Canada

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Canada.com

Sovereigntists campaign to nullify English schooling ruling

A coalition of Quebec nationalists and sovereignist groups Monday launched a public campaign to nullify the effect of a recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling on English-language schooling in the province.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Globe and Mail

Don't put eggs in one basket, Ottawa tells arts groups

Don't put eggs in one basket, Ottawa tells arts groups Heritage Minister James Moore speaks during Question Period in the House of Commons on Friday, March 27, 2009.

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Stephen Harper

CBC

Farmers targeted in alleged fraud

The RCMP is seeking the public's help as it continues to investigate the case of a man who is alleged to have bilked two Quebec farmers out of approximately $3 million by posing as a federal civil servant.

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Related Topix: Canada,

Montreal Gazette

200 calves die in Quebec farm fire

MONTREAL a ' Two hundred grain-fed calves perished in a fire at a farm Tuesday morning in Ange Gardien, about 75 kilometres southeast of Montreal.

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Related Topix: Canada

Penticton Herald

Internal border report warned of violence if guards armed on Mohawk land

An internal report warned the Canadian Border Services Agency of potential violence resulting from plans to arm border guards with handguns at a controversial crossing on Mohawk land outside the eastern Ontario community of Cornwall.

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Related Topix: Canada, New York

Thu Nov 19, 2009

National Post

Canadian divorce rate unlikely to drop: report

First, the good news: that statistic that half of all marriages end in divorce? Not true, according to a new report on divorce released Thursday by the Vanier Institute of the Family.

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Related Topix: Canada, Wedding

680News

New Action democratique du Quebec leader faces a mountainous challenge

Gerard Deltell, the new leader of the Action democratique du Quebec, faces a mountain to climb in re-establishing the crippled party as a credible political force.

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Related Topix: Canada

Globe and Mail

Feds eye move into battle over TV-cable fees

Grant Robertson Gatineau, Que. - Globe and Mail Update Published on Tuesday, Nov.

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Related Topix: Canada, North America, World News

Star Phoenix

Gazette reporter wins justice journalism award

Montreal Gazette justice reporter Sue Montgomery has won the 2009 Judith Jasmin Prize, Quebec's most prestigious journalism award.

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Related Topix: Journalism, Canada,