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  Finance Minister Flaherty calls modest jobs growth in Canada ’encouraging’

  March 12th, 2010 - 10 h 56

  TORONTO - Finance Minister Jim Flaherty calls the latest Canadian job numbers encouraging. Flaherty says the country's economy remains fragile, but calls the modest improvement in the unemployment rate a sign conditions are moving in the right...

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  Japan arrests New Zealand anti-whaling activist for illegally boarding Japanese vessel

  March 12th, 2010 - 7 h 12

  TOKYO - Japan's coast guard arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand on Friday for illegally boarding a whaling ship last month in the latest incident in the ongoing battle over Japanese whaling. Peter Bethune, a member of the...

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  More than 12,000 left without electricity in the Halifax area for a short time

  March 11th, 2010 - 23 h 40

  HALIFAX, N.S. - A large swath of the Halifax area was hit by a power outage late Thursday. The lights went out shortly after 11 p.m. AT, leaving more than 13,000 Nova Scotia Power customers in the dark. The utility's website says the cause of...

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  17th case of mad cow disease delays Canada's movement into better risk status

  March 11th, 2010 - 22 h 34

  EDMONTON - The president of Canada Beef Export Federation says the country's 17th case of mad cow disease has not affected markets. The beef cow was born in 2004 in Alberta, and the fatal degenerative brain disease was confirmed on Feb. 25. ...

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  Japan coast guard arrests New Zealand anti-whaling activist for boarding whaling ship

  March 11th, 2010 - 22 h 17

  TOKYO - Japan's coast guard says it has arrested an anti-whaling activist from New Zealand for illegally boarding a whaling ship. Coast guard spokesman Tomonobu Higashi says Peter Bethune, a member of the U.S.-based Sea Shepherd activist...

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  Regulators shut down LibertyPointe Bank; makes 27 bank failures this year

  March 11th, 2010 - 21 h 37

  WASHINGTON - U.S. regulators on Thursday shut down LibertyPointe Bank in New York City, boosting to 27 the number of bank failures in the U.S. so far this year following the 140 brought down in 2009 by mounting loan defaults and the recession. ...

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  Exports forecast to remain strong even as rebounding economy pushes imports up

  March 11th, 2010 - 21 h 36

  WASHINGTON - U.S. exports dipped in January, the government said Thursday, but economists weren't fazed. They predict export growth will be a bright spot for American manufacturers through the rest of 2010. President Barack Obama is banking on...

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  US to consider how states can address rising acid levels in oceans after lawsuit settlement

  March 11th, 2010 - 20 h 17

  SEATTLE - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday it will consider ways the states can address rising acidity levels in oceans, which pose a serious threat to shellfish and other marine life. The federal agency's decision was...

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  BC Hydro selects 19 projects for first clean power purchase agreements

  March 11th, 2010 - 18 h 55

  VANCOUVER, B.C. - BC Hydro has selected 19 clean-power projects to be awarded electricity purchase agreements for 2,400 gigawatt hours of electricity a year. B.C. Energy Minister Blair Lekstrom announced the first group of project selections...

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  Proposed UN ban on bluefin tuna pits Western worries against Japan's sushi culture

  March 11th, 2010 - 10 h 29

  DOHA, Qatar - A U.N. body best known for protecting tigers and elephants will focus on the world's overfished oceans beginning this week with proposals to regulate the shark trade and ban the export of a tuna species prized by sushi lovers. ...

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