Uncertainty lingers on Canada non-resource export rebound
Bank of Canada official Carolyn Wilkins warns that the long awaited rebound in non-resource exports remains uncertain. She notes US growth prospects, oil price effects, and currency shifts as factors while highlighting gains in services and high value sectors. The speech cites infrastructure and child-benefit spending as supportive of growth.
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Bank of Canada
Carolyn Wilkins
Wilkins
Canada
USS
Mexico
Brian DePratte
DePratte
RCMP Chief Apologizes for Four Decades of Harassment
RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson apologizes to hundreds of current and former female officers amid a $100 million settlement resolving two class actions over bullying discrimination and harassment dating back to 1974. The agreement covers compensation, a scholarship, and new gender equity advisory bodies. Merlo and Davidson joined the briefing with ministers Goodale and Mihychuk.
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Ottawa
RCMP
Bob Paulson
Paulson
Janet Merlo
Linda Gillis Davidson
Hun
Merlo
Adrian Wyld
Canadian special forces step onto front lines in Iraq
Brig Gen Peter Dawe says about 200 Canadian special forces are assisting Kurdish troops against ISIL in northern Iraq. He notes more time on the front lines and several gunfights, with no Canadian fatalities or injuries reported. Mission enters its third year.
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Ottawa
Iraq
Peter Dawe
Dawe
Iraq and the
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Canada
Canada dispatches disaster team to assess Haiti hurricane damage
The federal government deploys a damage assessment team to Haiti to gauge needs after Hurricane Matthew and decide on aid. A $3 million emergency fund awaits UN or Red Cross requests as the storm nears Florida and Haiti recovers from prior disasters.
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Haiti
Ottawa
Canada
Marie-Claude Bibeau
Bibeau
United Nations
Canadian Red Cross
Florida
Liberals urged to press Iran on executions
Canadian Friends for a Democratic Iran urged the Liberal government to push the UN to investigate the 1988 mass killing of 30,000 political prisoners. The group cited a new audio implicating senior Iranian officials including the justice minister and pressed MPs to demand accountability before resuming diplomatic ties.
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Ottawa
United Nations
Iran
Friends For
Parliament Hill
Shahram Golestaneh
Canada
Zahra Kazemi
Tehran
Golestaneh
Candice Bergen
Stephane Dion
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