Canada to send more supplies, advance team for possible DART deployment
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OTTAWA (CP) - Canada is going to send more aid supplies to victims of the tsunami disaster in south Asia and a team to determine if the military's fast disaster response team can also be sent.
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Hospitals told to start special hiring; Health minister says funding is sign province is in &#39;high gear&#39; against C. diff. Quebec Order of Nurses president Gyslaine Desrosiers told a nursing convention yesterday
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TORONTO -- The Canadian government yesterday doubled its aid contribution after Asia's devastating tsunamis and promised to speed existing visa applications for those from the region wishing to join family living in Canada. Prime Minister Paul Martin, dismissing criticism he should have broken off his Christmas vacation to coordinate Canada's contribution to the rescue efforts, said the country would now ...
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TORONTO (CP) - Two more planeloads of relief supplies were heading Tuesday from Canada to tsunami-stricken Indonesia to deliver more than 120,000 kilograms of desperately needed goods such as food, blankets and medical supplies to the survivors of the calamity that has claimed some 140,000 lives.
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By Bloomberg News. Employees representing 4 percent of the work force of Canada Post, the government-owned letter carrier, have threatened to strike by Dec. 8 unless they receive improvements in health benefits and job security.
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By FROM STAFF REPORTS  AUGUSTA - In response to a spate of lightning-caused wildfires in the Canadian province of Quebec, Maine and New Hampshire have mobilized firefighting crews to assist in control efforts.
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Canada has said it will build two military facilities in the Arctic. Are we witnessing a scramble for resources in the region?
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Canada promised more financial aid on  Tuesday for the troubled Sudanese region of Darfur but stopped  short of boosting its small military contingent.
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The government was to release details Monday of a new deployment to Afghanistan to bolster its 5,600-strong force in the troubled country.
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TORONTO (CP) - The association representing Canada's doctors is calling on Ottawa to provide a whopping &#36;1 billion to address the shortage of physicians and develop a strategy to ensure the country has enough health providers to care for patients in the future.
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Transport planners for the London 2012 Olympics have been told to move up a gear to deliver the project on time, amid fears about a lack of detail and and undeveloped back-up plans.
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The aim is to accelerate deployment of Iraqi forces against the insurgents.
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It's important to debate Canada's war &nbsp;mission in Afghanistan. It's a legitimate and necessary debate. It's a debate occurring in all the NATO countries now being asked to send more troops. Most of these countries, with the exception of Poland and Canada, have resisted further commitments. As in Canada, there is broad questioning within their populations about the core wisdom and merits of this mission. This is not, or as some are suggesting, a re-staging of the Second World War. The fate of the Western world is not hanging in the balance.
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PLEASE CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Good afternoon once again, ladies and gentlemen. I am accompanied by Peter MacKay, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Gordon O'Connor, the Minister of National Defence, and General Rick ...Comment
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NATO defense ministers were under pressure Thursday to find more troops for the alliance mission in Afghanistan ahead of an expected surge in fighting with the Taliban when the snow melts this spring.
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Canada will nearly double its troop strength in Afghanistan to about 1,100 by this summer, Defense Minister Bill Graham told The Associated Press on Sunday.
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ID Biomedical has been working for a year to expand its vaccine manufacturing plant in Quebec. The Canadian company hopes to supply about 38 million flu shots annually to the United States in the future.