Canadians losing confidence in economy: survey
TORONTO (Reuters) ? Global financial uncertainty and slowing job creation made Canadians feel less optimistic about the economy last month, according to a Royal Bank of Canada survey. Less than a third - 32 percent - of Canadians felt positive about the outlook for the economy over the next year, down from 43 percent in January 2011, and from the 56 percent who were positive two years ago, the poll showed.
Enbridge won't offer natives better terms: CEO
BEIJING (Reuters) - Canada's Enbridge Inc will not offer better financial terms to aboriginal bands standing in the way of a major oil pipeline from energy-rich Alberta to the Pacific Coast, the firm's chief executive officer said on Thursday. Pat Daniel also told Reuters that while he was prepared to look at alternate routes for the Northern Gateway pipeline -- which is crucial to Canadian plans to export oil to China -- he felt the current routing plan was the best.
Canadian population growth fastest in G8: census
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian population grew by 5.9 percent over five years to 33.5 million people in 2011, the fastest growth rate in the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations, the country's five-year census revealed on Wednesday. Statistics Canada, which conducted the census, said net immigration accounted for two-thirds of the population growth rate in the past decade. This contrasts with the United States, whose recent growth has been mainly the result of natural increase, the difference between births and deaths.
Canadian Chamber: Allow hostile foreign takeovers
OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Canadian Chamber of Commerce took issue on Wednesday with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's singling out foreign hostile takeovers of Canadian companies as something the government might consider blocking. Harper said in an interview with Reuters on Friday that takeovers involving critical technology that the government has invested in, and hostile takeovers of key Canadian businesses, would not be in the country's interest.
Lawyers fret on Canada Competition Bureau register
TORONTO (Reuters) - Plans by Canada's competition authorities to publish a monthly report on mergers violate basic confidentiality rules and will do little to make the review process more transparent, senior Canadian lawyers say. The Competition Bureau said this week it would start publishing a register of concluded reviews in March, listing the parties and industries involved in each transaction, as well as the outcome of its reviews.
Canada says has access to China's most wanted man
BEIJING (Reuters) - Canadian diplomats have had regular access to China's most wanted man, who was deported from Canada to China last year after a decades-long legal battle to face smuggling charges, an official told Reuters on Wednesday. Beijing had sought the deportation of Lai Changxing for years, accusing him of running a multi-billion dollar smuggling ring in the southeastern city of Xiamen in the 1990s in one of China's biggest political scandals in recent times.
Canada inks China trade deals, hails investor pact
BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Canada on Wednesday signed a series of deals to boost modest levels of bilateral trade and finished negotiations on a foreign investment protection pact after 18 years of talks. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, keen to boost oil exports to China and thereby reduce reliance on the U.S. market, said the investment agreement would help increase trade.
Two RCMP officers shot in Alberta; house surrounded
(Reuters) - Two Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers were shot and wounded in the western province of Alberta, the national police force said on Tuesday. The two officers were shot while trying to execute a search warrant at a rural residence near Killam, Alberta, southeast of Edmonton. Police have surrounded the house and think one or two suspects may be inside.
Canada says may use information from torture, rarely
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's spy service can in exceptional circumstances use information that has been obtained by a foreign country through torture if it will save Canadian lives, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said on Tuesday. "Information obtained by torture is always discounted, but the problem is, can one safely ignore it if Canadian lives and property are at stake?" Toews asked in the House of Commons.
Crash kills 11, mostly migrant farm workers
TORONTO (Reuters) - A crash between a flatbed truck and a van carrying migrant farm workers on a rural crossroads in southwestern Ontario killed 11 people, media reported on Tuesday, in one of the most deadly vehicle accidents in Canadian history. Both drivers and nine passengers in the van were killed instantly on Monday when it was broadsided by the truck, a spokeswoman for the county emergency medical service said. The accident occurred in the hamlet of Hampstead, Ontario, about 87 miles west of Toronto.
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