Canada has begun preparations to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan in 2011. Maj. Cindy Tessier said Friday that the chief of Defense staff, Gen. Walter Natynczyk, has ordered preparations to get under way that would see Canada's 2,800 troops removed from southern Afghanistan in the summer of 2011. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has said it will not extend Canada's military mission even if President Barack Obama asks. Since 2002, 133 Canadian soldiers and one diplomat have died. Canada first sent troops to Afghanistan after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and increased its deployment after declining a U.S. request to ...
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This past week, we have seen several interesting pieces of news come out this week. One of which was the recent figure of $300 million being the cost of processing fees if Visa Canada acquires just 20% of the debit market next year. This figure comes from the Retail Council of Canada , and as it stands, they will be presenting this figure at the pre-budget consultations with the House of Commons Finance Committee in Ottawa . For consumers, in order for merchants to counter these processing fees, the price of goods and services might become higher. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has said he ...
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posted by keiragabe 7 hours ago in GBP , Fundamental made popular 4 hours ago Finance Minister Jim Flaherty has dismissed the idea of imposing tax on financial transactions to guard against another crisis in the banking sector.
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The leaders of France, Germany and Spain criticised Tory leader David Cameron for urging the Czech president to delay ratifying a key EU treaty, a report said Saturday. Nicolas Sarkozy, Angela Merkel and Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero were annoyed by a letter sent by Cameron to Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the Guardian reported. Their frustrations surfaced at this week's two-day European Union summit in Brussels, the paper said, citing senior British sources. Sarkozy was reportedly "incensed" at Cameron's intervention, which he saw as an attempt by Cameron to wreck the treaty. Merkel was concerned by his "untrustworthy" behaviour and Zapatero saw the move as ...
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"The indignant attempt by Corrections and Public Safety Minister Yogi Hughebaert to castigate the NDP for using leaked information to publicize the mistaken early release of a dangerous sexual offender only draws attention to the hypocrisy of the Saskatchewan Party in government. [...] So what happened to the principles of the Saskatchewan Party that, when it sat in Opposition, felt safeguarding the public was so important that it introduced its own whistleblower protection bill in 2004 to protect employees being fired, demoted, or otherwise punished for raising concerns about a provincial government agency or department, Crown corporation, health authority, municipality, university or school division? ...
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