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Canada stories: 208 news summaries

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Look Out, Santa: Russia Claims North Pole

Rich oil and gas reserves lie beneath ownership dispute

Aug 1, 07 12:09 PM CDT
(Newser) - Russian ships will arrive at the North Pole today as part of Moscow's effort to claim a 1,240-mile area of the Arctic—and with it, more than $2 trillion in oil and gas reserves. The Telegraph reports that the fleet will deposit a Russian flag at the bottom of... More »

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climate change • Russia • oil • Canada • Vladimir Putin • North Pole • Arctic • Denmark • sovereignty • Arctic oil

Russians Advance on North Pole

With eye on energy-rich seabed, submarines make test dive

Jul 29, 07 5:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a race to claim rich natural resources under the North Pole, two Russian submarines successfully dove several thousand feet in Russia's northern territorial waters today, Reuters reported. Though US and Russian subs have long plied the waters under the pole, none has reached the seabed there, at a depth... More »

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Russia • Canada • United States • North Pole • Arctic • Norway • Denmark • natural resources

Press Baron Stays Out
of Prison

Lord Black
free on bail
until sentencing

Jul 20, 07 5:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Press baron Conrad Black will remain free on $21-million in bail until his sentencing for three counts of fraud and one of obstructing justice. Prosecutors fear that if he's out on bail he'll flee to Canada because he's facing 30 years in prison, he's rich, and he hasn't shown respect... More »

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Canada • House of Lords • Conrad Black

Polluted
Fish Swamp Great Lakes

Industrial chemicals raise contaminant levels into range unsafe for eating

Jul 6, 07 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Industrial chemicals contaminate many species of fish that populate the Great Lakes, making them too hazardous for safe human consumption, says a Canadian conservation group. "The lakes continue to be polluted to such an extent that human health is threatened," says a report released yesterday that lists industrial... More »

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environment • pollution • environmentalism • Canada • salmon • fish • pollutants • pike • trout • Great Lakes • Huron • Lake Superior • Lake Eerie • Lake Ontario • dioxins • PCBs • methyl mercury

BCE Agrees to Landmark LBO

Ontario teachers' retirement fund lines up largest Canadian takeover ever

Jul 1, 07 10:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Canada's dominant telecom company will go private in the country's biggest takeover ever, and one of the largest LBOs in the world. A powerful teachers' retirement fund and two American private-equity firms made a deal yesterday for CBE, also known as Bell Canada. The $48.5 billion (C$51.7 billion)... More »

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private equity • Canada • Bell Canada • privatization • telecom • takeover • Madison Dearborn • buyout • LBO • retirement fund • CBE • Providence Equity • teacher

Seven Wonders of Canada

Yes, Pamela Anderson was nominated, but she didn't win

Jun 17, 07 3:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Yes, Pamela Anderson (she's Canadian) was nominated (it was an open process) but, no - alas, she did not win.  The winners were:
  1. Sleeping Giant,  Thunder Bay
  2. Niagara Falls
  3. Rocky Mountains
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travel • Canada • list • seven wonders • Sleeping Giant • Niagra Falls • Rocky Mountains • Bay of Fundy • Cabot Trail • Nahanni • northern lights • national park

Top 10 Up & Coming Destinations

Jun 14, 07 4:17 AM CDT
(Newser) -
  1. Gdansk, Poland
  2. Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada
  3. Nesebar, Bulgaria
  4. San Ignacio, Belize
  5. Antananarivo, Madagascar
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travel • Poland • Canada • list • top travel destinations • Bulgaria • Belize • Madagascar

Senators Knock Crosby, Pens Out of Playoffs

Shutout marks the end of Pittsburgh prodigies' first playoff venture

Apr 19, 07 11:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Ottawa Senators looked dominant in closing out their series against Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, and the other gifted, snotty-nosed young upstarts of Pittsburgh.  Ray Emery, the tattooed, python-owning goalie who got his start with the Senators during last year's playoffs, stopped all 19 Penguins shots. More »

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Pittsburgh Penguins • Sidney Crosby • Canada • Ottawa Senators • Ray Emery • hockey • Evgeni Malkin

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