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[ Arts & Entertainment ] Poet E.J. Pratt on turning 75
E.J. Pratt was Canada's leading poet of the first half of the 20th century, but you couldn't tell him that without hearing a skeptical chuckle.
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Canada Stocks Fall, Led by Fording, Potash, Teck Cominco; NovaGold Rises
Canada's main stock index fell the most in three months, led by Fording Canadian Coal Trust and other materials producers, as prices for coal and some other commodities slid.
Financials help TSX to a positive close
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange Thursday. New York stock markets closed mainly higher as investors got a lift from jobs data that generally met expectations.
Canada confirms derailed rail car leaking
Canadian environmental officials have acknowledged a rail tanker car derailed by a landslide into a British Columbia river is leaking a toxic chemical.
Minot derailment victims win 8th Circuit case
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a federal law change approved in response to a deadly train derailment and chemical spill on the edge of Minot is constitutional.
The farmland here is flat and good for growing, something farmers have been doing here since the American Revolution.
Answer the following: What year did Confederation occur? Who was the first Prime Minister? When was the Canadian Pacific Railway completed? If you scratched your head at these typical Canada Day quiz questions, ...
The Empress of Ireland was a Canadian Pacific Railway steamship in active service from 1906 until its collision with another ship in the early hours of May 29, 1914.
Forces fired up for large exercise off Hawaii
Warships from CFB Esquimalt, along with a host of Canadian soldiers and air force personnel, will fire their weapons at derelict ships and a virtual island as part of an international training exercise in ...
Media Advisory - Canadian Pacific second-quarter 2008 results:...
CALGARY, June 27 CPR-conf-call-July-22 CALGARY , /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Canadian Pacific will release its second-quarter financial and operating results at 7:30 a.m. Eastern time on July 22, 2008 .
Financials, industrials boost TSX after big loss; N.Y. up ahead of Fed decision
The Toronto stock market was up Wednesday, following a 282-point mauling in the previous session, led by financial and industrial stocks.
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers a...
Opinion: Abolish the Canadian rail monopoly
OTTAWA - Canadian National and Canadian Pacific operate monopolies on significant parts of their railway networks.
Mountie to stop traffic in London's Trafalgar Square
Prince Edward and a Mountie on horseback will help honour a Canadian hero in an event here Thursday that will bring rush-hour traffic around Trafalgar Square to a seven-minute standstill.
Couple caught in Coleman fugitives: RCMP
The man and woman arrested two weeks ago by Crowsnest Pass RCMP for unlawfully entering Canada have been identified as wanted fugitives, who fled to the Crowsnest Pass to escape prosecution say the RCMP.
Personal papers of famous Mountie shed light on young Canada
Sir Samuel Benfield Steele's boxes of journals, official documents, love letters and war and police memorabilia, believed to be oozing with secrets that will help re-write Canadian history, are being flown back ...
Righteous returns: Religious funds
June 4, 2006 issue of Canadian Business magazine One of the populist criticisms of free markets is that they lack discernible values.
Legendary Mountie Sam Steele brought justice and integrity to the West
Published:A 1:33 am His name was Steele. Sam Steele. And if we today have a certain iconic, archetypal image of the upright Mounties of the North West Mounted Police, that image was largely the one he created.
Ministry issues emergency safety directive regarding potentially faulty train wheels
The Ministry of Transport has issued an emergency safety directive to Canadian National to identify and remove from use any potentially faulty train wheels from Canadian service as quickly as possible and by no ...
Falling financials take TSX lower
The Toronto stock market closed slightly lower Wednesday after a spike in oil prices of over $5 took energy stocks higher while financials cancelled out those gains amid growing talk of rising interest rates in ...