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Yesterday | Globeinvestor.com

Reuters Canada Business Summary

“Given, in particular, fuel prices, the likelihood of something happening imminently with Air Canada vis a vis a sale is low”

Reports on Canada's employment and trade performance on Friday appeared to showcase the economy's resilience to the U.S. slowdown, but some less encouraging trends emerged in the details. via Globeinvestor.com

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Saturday May 10 | Globeinvestor.com

Lost in space

“You can't declare something of strategic national importance and then choose not to support it”

MDA had bid for - and won - a contract to build the chassis for a Mars rover that would be part of the European Space Agency's ambitious ExoMars mission, the caller said. via Globeinvestor.com

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Friday May 9 | CFRB

Industry minister says MDA should not sell assets to get foreign contracts

“And there may well be other commercial applications of that technology”

Federal Industry Minister Jim Prentice says lack of market access shouldn't be a reason for Canadian companies like MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. via CFRB

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Thursday May 8 | National Post

Alliant changes MDA offer in bid to persuade Ottawa

“We will be informed of the final decision in about a week.”

Alliant Techsystems Inc. of Minneapolis says it has modified its bid to purchase a part of Canada's leading space company, MacDonald Dettwiler Associates Ltd. via National Post

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Wednesday May 7 | Eden Prairie News - Newspaper and onl...

Activist group follows ATK to Eden Prairie

In one of the first of many Wednesday morning vigils, about 30 activists from the group AlliantAction gathered around a driveway at 7480 Flying Cloud Drive, the new home to ATK . via Eden Prairie News - Newspaper and onl...

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Monday May 5 | Microwave Journal

REMEC Supports Successful Test Demonstration of AARGM Missile

“The performance of REMEC's Anti-Radiation Homing (ARH) receiver components were pivotal in the test missile ARH guidance to a direct hit of the target.”

Source: REMEC Defense and Space REMEC Defense and Space , a subsidiary of Cobham Defence Electronic Systems , has received notice by ATK of another successful milestone test of the Advanced Anti Radiation ... via Microwave Journal

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Saturday May 3 | City Pages

Snub leaves protest group wanting answers - and breakfast

“When we asked if we could at least eat there today, we were told we weren't welcome and that the caf was for tenants only.”

You'll get this Danish when you pry it from my cold, dead hands For 12 years now, protest group AlliantAction has held Wednesday-morning candle vigils outside Alliant Techsystem's premises in Edina to protest ... via City Pages

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Thursday May 1 | Montreal Gazette

MDA tries to salvage asset sale

“It's a one-way street at the moment”

MDA executives haven't met with Industry Minister Jim Prentice since the deal to create the U.S.'s fifth-largest space company was announced in January, sparking fears over the loss of Canadian-developed ... via Montreal Gazette

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Tuesday Apr 29 | CBC News

MDA executive says firm hasn't given up on space division sale to US company

A top executive with MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates says the company hasn't given up efforts to sell its space division to U.S.-based Alliant Techsystems Inc. via CBC News

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Sunday Apr 27 | Space Ref

NASA To Conduct Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Motor Test in Utah May 1

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Thursday, April 24, 2008 Source: Marshall Space Flight Center - Comments WHAT: Full-scale, full-duration test of a space shuttle reusable solid rocket motor designated Flight ... via Space Ref

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