From: MediaScrape on Tue, Sep 22 2009 10:52 AM

Asia Pacific markets positive - Watch out for Cadbury shares - Gold trading well after dip on Monday

From: MediaScrape on Tue, Sep 22 2009 10:52 AM

European markets enjoy positive day - Online retail sales up in August - Russia plans sale of state assets

From: MediaScrape on Mon, Sep 21 2009 1:29 AM

Alice Schroeder, who wrote the only authorised biography of Warren Buffett, talks to Robert Miller.

From: MediaScrape on Mon, Sep 21 2009 12:45 AM

U.S. President Barack Obama was promoting health-care reform across the airwaves Sunday in interviews with five television networks — reassuring middle-income Americans they won’t face big tax increases to pay for the plan.

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Obama is trying to win back momentum for his besieged proposal...

From: MediaScrape on Thu, Sep 17 2009 12:01 PM

There is no "immediate decision pending" on whether the U.S. will send more troops or resources to Afghanistan, U.S. President Barack Obama said Wednesday after a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

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Obama and Harper discussed trade issues, energy and the economy in addition to...

From: MediaScrape on Wed, Sep 16 2009 2:23 PM

For the first time, Rwanda is the world’s leading reformer despite the fallout from the global financial crisis. It is the first Sub-Saharan African country to be named a top reformer in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business report. PENELOPE BROOK, Acting Vice President for Financ...

From: MediaScrape on Tue, Sep 15 2009 10:45 AM

Actor Patrick Swayze, best known for his roles in the films Dirty Dancing and Ghost, has died after battling pancreatic cancer.

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The Houston-born performer, who studied dance before tackling a career on stage and screen, was 57 years old.

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"Patrick Swayze passed away peaceful...

From: MediaScrape on Tue, Sep 15 2009 10:10 AM

Two Alberta men have been charged with fraud after allegedly running a Ponzi-type scheme that raised more than $100 million from investors around the world.

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RCMP arrested a Chestermere-area man on Sunday and are still looking for a Calgary man who is believed to be in Honduras.

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From: MediaScrape on Mon, Sep 14 2009 11:03 AM

Asia share prices 'running ahead of reality' - Tyre row erupts between US and China - Commodities come under selling pressure

From: MediaScrape on Fri, Sep 11 2009 2:15 AM

Candid remarks made by Stephen Harper to Conservative supporters during a private meeting last week reveal the prime minister’s “spiteful” attitude toward Canadians, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff said Thursday.

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“This in-camera speech by Mr. Harper has settled once and for all his c...

From: MediaScrape on Fri, Sep 11 2009 2:00 AM

Toronto returns to the cinema world spotlight Thursday as the Toronto International Film Festival gets underway for 10 days of movie screenings, deal-making and celebrity-watching.

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More than 330 titles from around the globe will unspool as part of the 34th edition of the annual movie-...

From: MediaScrape on Thu, Sep 10 2009 10:04 AM

A Nova Scotia court is being asked to approve a $13-million sexual abuse settlement between a Roman Catholic diocese in the province and dozens of victims.

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The deal is being hailed as the first time the Roman Catholic Church has apologized and set up a compensation package for people w...

From: MediaScrape on Thu, Sep 10 2009 10:02 AM

A wave of Beatlemania swept the globe anew Wednesday as fans from Tokyo to London to New York queued to buy the Fab Four’s music in formats old and new.

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Creating the buzz were the band's remastered albums and The Beatles: Rock Band video game.

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Music fans who already own...

From: MediaScrape on Fri, Sep 04 2009 9:47 AM

Robert Miller chats to Tom Ewing, manager of Fidelity International’s UK Growth Fund, about investment opportunities in China.

From: MediaScrape on Thu, Sep 03 2009 10:05 AM

Markets dither - Hays upbeat - Euro services - Royal Bank watch

From: MediaScrape on Wed, Sep 02 2009 10:10 AM

Bad day on Wall St has repurcussions - Aussie economic growth picks up - Insurance companies react to solvency rules

From: MediaScrape on Mon, Aug 31 2009 10:52 AM

Police have arrested two teenagers after a teen was beaten to death on Saturday in the remote northern Manitoba community of Nelson House First Nation.

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Two suspects from the community, both 16, are in police custody in connection with the death of Dakota Hunter, 17.

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Hunter ...

From: MediaScrape on Mon, Aug 24 2009 9:28 AM

Cape Breton is feeling the full impact of Hurricane Bill, which has already knocked out power to thousands of homes, flooded roads and disrupted travel plans around mainland Nova Scotia.

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As of 6 p.m. AT, Bill was centred about 70 kilometres south of Louisbourg, packing sustained winds...

From: MediaScrape on Fri, Aug 21 2009 10:23 AM

Charles Starmer-Smith travels to Newfoundland to kayak with whales and jump off waterfalls.

From: MediaScrape on Fri, Aug 21 2009 10:16 AM

Lockerbie bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi has arrived in Libya to a hero’s welcome after he was released from a Scottish prison on compassionate grounds.

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He arrived Thursday evening at a military airport on the outskirts of Tripoli, where thousands of Libyan youths greeted him alon...