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Canadian security officials kept a close watch on,

aboriginal rights protests across the country last summer,

fearing violence and disruption,

according to newly declassified government documents.

It was a long and gradual process.

Months of negotiation,

numerous amendments to the Constitution and

threats of separation played a part in forging together the 10 ...

Francis said in the Intel Forum:

As someone new to the IT field i dont think its a shortage of IT personell i think its a shortage of employment for entry level employees.

Doesn't seem that entry level means entry level anymore.

I see jobs with entry level in their descriptions and what do they ask for?

None other than a B.A and 5 yrs experience.

Go figure,

it's not the market for jobs, its the companies that want to pay you 15 an hour

and have someone with a B.A at the same time.

Well good luck to you all you IT pros out there in finding employment

if you arent up to the entry level "par".

as L.A.'s hydrogen station deserves a green card MISSISSAUGA (Jun 27, 2008)

Greater accuracy sought in 'green' advertising

(Jun 27, 2008) -

The Competition Bureau says ads touting environmental benefits of products should be specific, clear and substantiated.

Upheaval in Niagara's fruit belt ST. DAVID'S (Jun 27, 2008)

probably having a meeting with Industry Canada

about new Housing Developments that can be placed on farmlands...

When you see a TV character reach for an Oreo cookie -- would you like to know if Nabisco paid for that to happen? The Federal Communications Commission thinks it might be a good idea to tell viewers when ...

USA FCC considers making 'product integration' clearer - Topix

It seems unimaginable, but it is possible that for the first time in recorded history the North Pole will be free of ice this summer, according to a published report Friday.

Related Topix: Sailing News

http://www.topix.net/sailing

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's director of communications, Sandra Buckler, announced Thursday that she is stepping down.

The U.S. military's treatment of a Canadian teen detained at Guantanamo Bay violated international laws against torture, the Federal Court has ruled.

http://www.topix.net/news/guantanamo-bay

http://www.topix.net/world/cuba

Dear Steve:

How can I destroy [financial institution, whose name is removed because I don't play that way - ' Steve] and make posting [financial institution] jobs on job-seeking websites illegal unless they say ...

“BULLS**T FAKE JOB, LOSE MONEY WITH [financial institution] TODAY”?

I’m sick of seeing my inbox full of job offers and thinking maybe this month I can pay for grandma’s face medicine only to find a cornucopia of ****.

I only have so many hours in the day to flag postings on Craigslist...

In the spring of 2004, procurement experts from Public Works and the Department of National Defence gathered daily at Ottawa's Rockcliffe airbase.

Nearly eight years after the Twin Towers fell in New York City,

that day continues to reverberate in ways we once never could have imagined.

Now 9/11 is affecting the buying and selling of homes in Sault Ste. Marie and elsewhere in Canada.

Gordon Henderson, a broker of record with Sutton Group Sault Ste. Marie Realty, Inc., elaborates in the following note to ...

Perhaps as many as 400,000 birds, including breeders and their offspring.

After a meeting of former PKI contract holders that took place last Saturday,

Wagler showed reporters a cooler filled with trays with two squab each, sitting on a bed of rice.

Canadian-inspired and zero-emissions Dynasty Electric Car. General Motors of Canada had made an announcement stating the closure of a truck plant just two weeks after signing a collective agreement with the ...

Every nation tells itself stories to make itself feel better. Canadians seem to be better at this than most, tending to define themselves in opposition to their more powerful southern neighbour.

grew up in New York as a Brooklyn Dodgers fan

Posted 23 hours ago in Entertainment NEW YORK —

More than 30 years after George Carlin pronounced

‘‘Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television,’’

some of those words have lost [...]

http://www.portagedailygraphic.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1087029&auth=Frazier+Moore%2c+The+Associated+Press

Mexican government has agreed to extradite a reputed leader of a Tijuana-based drug cartel to the U.S.

USA & Mexico governments have dismissed a Mexican judge's recommendation that

Benjamin Arellano Felix not be extradited because

he should not be tried twice on the same charges.

When will Canadians be able to restore their rights and freedoms by cancelling NAFTA ?

http://www.topix.net/world/canada/2008/06/canadians-can-restore-their-rights-and-freedoms-by-cancelling-nafta

Mexican president Carlos Salinas de Gortari, U.S. president George Bush, and Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney look on as representatives from their countries sign the North American Free Trade Agreement ...

photo credit http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/gallery/337474,147515

But is the province saving enough ?

The mayors claim that producing oil from the oilsands emits three times as much carbon dioxide into the environment as conventional oil production.

Alberta's latest fiscal report shows the province is awash in energy revenues for now, .

its population is booming, probably with so Many Foreigners there,

just about everyone has a job and

expenses eating up most of disposable incomes which could be perceived as the highest in Canada.

http://www.cfrb.com/news/14/743399

The fate of the world's whales and the future of the International Whaling Commission hang in the balance as delegates from 81 nations gather for the 60th annual meeting of the IWC.

The commission has been deadlocked in recent years

as the last three nations engaged in whaling for commercial purposes -

Japan, Iceland and Norway -

have fought to block conservation measures in the forum.

Related Topix: Chile, Activism

Sunday | Physics Blog

Hunted, rammed, poisoned, whales may die from heartbreak too

A gam of minke whales pass icebergs in the Southern Ocean off the Australian Antarctic Territory, in 2007...

http://www.topix.net/world/chile/2008/06/hunted-rammed-poisoned-whales-may-die-from-heartbreak-too

Diplomacy expected to trump confrontation at International Whaling Commission meeting

The International Whaling Commission opens its annual conference in Chile on Monday amid hope that group infighting over countries that continue whaling despite a 20-year commercial ban can be resolved by ...

http://www.topix.net/world/chile/2008/06/diplomacy-expected-to-trump-confrontation-at-international-whaling-commission-meeting