Canada News Headlines - Reuters

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (Reuters) - Russia has partly lifted its ban on Canadian pork, easing one of the major trade impediments that have been straining Canada's pork industry since the outbreak of H1N1 flu in April.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Air Canada's biggest union may push for additional job security in labor talks with the debt-heavy airline and a federally appointed mediator on Friday, but it doesn't expect a quick resolution.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar as the global reserve currency of choice has been a stabilizing force during the current financial crisis, Canada said on Friday, downplaying calls to debate the greenback's dominant status.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Other companies are likely to follow Tim Hortons Inc in moving their corporate structures to Canada to take advantage of a falling corporate tax rate, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The jobless rate in Canada and the United States will continue to rise, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Friday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Toronto's main stock index rose on Friday morning, boosted in part by Teck Resources Ltd's equity sale to China Investment Corp.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Globe and Mail newspaper has agreed to a tentative deal with unionized workers just ahead of a strike deadline, a union official said early on Friday.

SANTIAGO, Chile (Reuters) - Canada has no immediate plans to increase the size of its two-year stimulus plan, which is designed to pump an extra C$46 billion ($40 billion) into the economy, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Thursday.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - An explosion that damaged a natural gas pipeline in northeast British Columbia this week is likely linked to earlier attacks on energy facilities in the area, Canadian police said on Thursday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - More Canadians will be out of work in 2014 than prior to the recession, even if the economy recovers quickly and expands at a healthy clip for the next five years, a prominent economist forecast on Thursday.

TORONTO, July 2 (Reuters) - Pittsburgh Penguins captain Sidney Crosby headlined the short-list of Canada players who will be handed the task of winning gold at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Liberal Party has regained its slender lead in public support, thanks largely to a sharp dip in backing for the Conservatives, according to a poll released on Thursday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada has forgiven C$2.3 million in debt owed by Haiti as part of a plan that aims to relieve the world's poorest countries of C$1.3 billion in debt, the Department of Finance said on Thursday.

ROME (Reuters) - With only five months to go until a new global pact on climate change, none of the Group of Eight nations is doing enough to curb global warming, with Canada and the United States ranking bottom, a study said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has lifted a ban on meat imports from the U.S. states of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Michigan, and from Canada's Quebec province due to the improved situation surrounding the H1N1 virus.

PRAGUE (Reuters) - Canada may reinstate a visa requirement on Czech visitors after hundreds of Roma from the Czech state sought asylum there over the past few months, the Czech Foreign Ministry said Wednesday.

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The western Canadian province of Alberta posted a C$852 million budget deficit for the 2008-09 fiscal year on Tuesday, lower than the C$1.4 billion shortfall it had expected, but it warned its finances still face pressure from low energy prices.

SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (Reuters) - A court ruling that backs a government order blocking the Canadian Wheat Board from lobbying to keep its monopoly on grain sales undermines the board's authority to spend its funds as it sees fit, CWB Chairman Larry Hill said on Tuesday.

TORONTO (Reuters)- The Royal Canadian Mint is missing about C$18.8 million ($16.2 million) worth of gold and has not ruled out theft even as it continues to try to solve the mystery, according to an official on Tuesday.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's economy contracted for the ninth straight month in April as the manufacturing, energy and retail industries scaled back activity in the deepest downturn since the early 1990s.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's economy contracted for the ninth straight month in April as the manufacturing, energy and retail industries scaled back activity in the deepest recession since the early 1990s.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - Improper political interference led to polygamy charges being filed against two members of a breakaway sect of the Mormon Church, defense lawyers told a Canadian court on Monday.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (Reuters) - An attempt to imprint ice hockey fandom on the very, very young has resulted in a product safety recall in Canada.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada aims to start immunizing its population against the new H1N1 flu virus in October but has not yet decided who should be a priority for getting the shot, the country's top public health official said on Monday.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Two daily newspapers in Calgary, Alberta, are under fire from an animal rights group after they refused to publish an advertisement calling for a ban on the calf-roping event at the city's world famous Stampede rodeo.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Ontario said on Monday it is suspending a multibillion-dollar plan to build two new nuclear reactors because of concerns about the future of the favored bidder and cost overruns.

TORONTO (Reuters) - Tim Hortons Inc, whose coffee shop chain is a Canadian icon, said on Monday it applied with U.S. regulators to return to its Canadian corporate roots through a reorganization that could hurt its results for the rest of the year.

TORONTO (Reuters) - The Canadian government refused to budge on Friday in rejecting a plea from the country's biggest city to help fund a C$1.2 billion streetcar deal with Bombardier Inc because it does not meet the requirements to tap into Ottawa's stimulus fund.