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Canada's executive compensation practices have come a long way
2013-05-27 11:41:10| Grocery - Topix.net
See The Globe's full report on executive compensation in 2012 with rankings, an interactive pay vs.
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Canada's vast boreal forest a biodiversity hotspot
2013-05-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Philadelphia Inquirer: In case you missed it and forgot to send a card -- as did I -- Wednesday was the International Day for Biodiversity. What's biodiversity? Ask most people, and they think it's related to the number of species in a particular area. The more species, the more biodiversity. So, naturally, they think of places like the Amazon as being biodiversity strongholds. But a report from the Boreal Songbird Initiative and Ducks Unlimited begs to differ. They think other characteristics -- concentrations...
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Canadas government is spending millions to get you to like the Keystone pipeline
2013-05-22 09:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Canada obviously has a huge stake in the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline. If President Obama fails to approve it - a decision he recently put off yet again -- the Canadian oil industry will have a tough time getting its abundant tar-sands crude to seaside ports. Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently came to the U.S. to make the case for the pipeline in person, as did Canada`s ministers of foreign affairs and natural resources and the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan. And now our neighbor...
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Canada's Supreme Court won't hear Lilly appeal on Zyprexa
2013-05-16 22:20:14| Agriculture - Topix.net
Canada's Supreme Court dismissed Eli Lilly and Co.'s request to appeal a federal court decision that invalidated its Canadian patent for schizophrenia drug Zyprexa.
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10 Reasons Canadas Tar Sands Suck
2013-05-16 16:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Pardon my french, but Canada`s tar sands suck. As a Canadian it blows my mind that we can have the second largest deposits of oil in the world, but our government remains billions in debt and one in seven Canadian children live in poverty. I feel like we are being played for fools here in Canada, because foreign owned oil companies like ExxonMobil, British Petroluem and PetroChina (71 percent of oil sands production is owned by foreign shareholders) are making billions exporting raw tar sand...
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