Canadians go west in black-gold rush
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An exodus of job-seekers heading to Alberta's 'oil patch' forces eastern Canada to import workers.
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Few sane people want to visit a storm-tossed Bering Sea, the sizzling Sahara Desert and Canada's Northwest Territories in January. Experiencing them from a comfortable chair in front of a flat-screen television, however, is all the rage.
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The North Atlantic right whale, western wolverine and the dromedary jumping-slug on Canada's Pacific coast will soon share a dubious distinction.
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In order to ship as much as 10 tons of ephedrine from Canada to California for two years, a drug ring found a dependable way to get its supplies across the border: horse trailers owned by Buffalo-area harness racers.
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Gold miners on  Russia&#39;s Kamchatka peninsula contend with volcanic eruptions,  floods and poor infrastructure, but high metal prices mean the  hard work pays off.
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TORONTO (CP) - Canadian gold producers Goldcorp Inc. and Wheaton River Minerals Ltd. have struck a friendly $2.4 billion merger deal to create a company with more than 1.1 million ounces of gold production a year.
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HALIFAX, Novia Scotia -- Once, music echoed through Africville, Canada's oldest black community. Men on guitars and pianos jammed on weekend nights until early morning. When Duke Ellington visited -- his wife had family there -- the whole community turned out, 400 strong, to play or just listen to the jumping tunes.
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OTTAWA (CP) - With the loonie flying high against the American greenback, Canada will be casting a much wider net - reaching as far as Asia - for new investment and trade opportunities in 2005.
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Big-name Western bands head to Eastern Europe.
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Investors from Russia have moved in to take control of what is believed to be one of Armenia's biggest gold-mining operations.
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PERTH (Dow Jones)--Another Australian mining company is destined for foreign ownership after Canada&#39;s LionOre Mining International Ltd.
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Skagway, Alaska, is a kind of theme park, in which the townâs entire history is quaintly compressed into the two years of the Klondike gold rush.
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By By Brian Hendrickson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun.
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London-listed Central African Mining &  Exploration  launched an offer for Katanga Mining Ltd   on Wednesday, which it said valued the Canadian  company at C$1.52 billion (US$1.44 billion).
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At a time when more than a few unhappy liberals in the United States are rumbling about moving north, the expatriates in Nelson, British Columbia, are proof it can be done.
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These are not the best days in political life, on either side of the border that divides North America. Canadian politics is in an advanced state of drift, the Prime Minister and premiers posturing over competing
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The 51.7 billion Canadian bid to take Bell Canada private unquestionably rewards the companyâs shareholders. But getting there was not a pleasant experience for everyone.