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(Reuters) - The Quebec government has laid out plans to extract up to C$1.8 billion (US$1.8 billion) more in taxes from the mining sector over the next 12 years, with measures that include a minimum royalty, arguing that Quebecers need to see greater benefits from mining ventures in the province. The new taxation plan, …

By Randall Palmer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada is more than ever a nation of immigrants, with one in five Canadians born outside the country, according to a 2011 survey released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday. That 20.6 percent proportion of people born abroad, up from 19.8 percent five years previously, is far bigger than …

(Reuters) - Thirty horses being taken to slaughter in Canada were burned alive when the tractor-trailer transporting them caught fire on an upstate New York highway, state police said on Tuesday. The horses were on their way to a rendering plant in Quebec on Monday evening when the incident occurred on Interstate 81 near …

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Canada lost an appeal at the World Trade Organization on Monday in a ruling on incentives offered to local companies, a case that has already led to legal challenges over suspicions of similar perks elsewhere. Japan and the European Union brought the case over a scheme intended to promote renewable …

By David Ljunggren OTTAWA (Reuters) - A European Union plan to label crude from the Alberta oil sands as dirty is unfair and could damage Canada's bid to find new export markets, the Canadian resources minister said at the start of a mission to lobby against the idea. As part of a plan to cut greenhouse gases from transport …

By Cameron French TORONTO (Reuters) - Ontario's minority Liberal government unveiled a budget on Thursday that projected a narrower-than-expected 2013-14 deficit and included measures aimed at securing opposition support and preventing an early election for Premier Kathleen Wynne. However, it was not clear whether the budget …

By Louise Egan and Randall Palmer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada tapped an outsider on Thursday to head its central bank, bringing in the well-respected head of the Canadian export credit agency, who immediately stressed the need to nurture a choppy economic recovery. Incoming Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz, 57, worked …

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said on Thursday the new Bank of Canada governor would be named "soon", a spokesman for the minister said. The replacement for Governor Mark Carney, who is stepping down on June 1 to head to the Bank of England, is widely expected to be named later on Thursday, possibly …

By Euan Rocha and Jessica Toonkel TORONTO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Highfields Capital, a U.S. hedge fund agitating for change at Tim Hortons Inc, may have a hard time convincing institutional investors that the chain that says it sells eight out of every 10 cups of coffee in Canada needs a wake-up call. The Boston-based activist …

HANOI, Vietnam - Nearly 40 years after hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese fled the country's Communist regime by boat, a growing number are taking to the water again.

Canada housing starts slip in April, latest sign of cooling TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian housing starts slipped in April from March, led in part by a pullback in Ontario condo-building, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp said on Wednesday, in the latest report to indicate the country's once hot housing market is cooling. …

By Richard Hubbard LONDON (Reuters) - Ongoing support from easy central bank monetary policies underpinned global stocks on Thursday although profit-taking pushed European and Japanese shares off multi-year highs. In early European trading the blue chip Euro STOXX 50 , Britain's FTSE 100 , Germany's DAX and France's CAC-40FCHI> …

By Mirna Sleiman DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai Group, an investment vehicle owned by the emirate's ruler, will be spun off as an independent company with creditors owning an equity stake after its planned $10 billion debt restructuring, a top official said. The company, which is a unit of Dubai Holding, the investment arm of …

SANTA CLARA, Calif. - After watching his squad give up a game-winning goal beyond the 80th minute for a third straight game, Toronto FC manager Ryan Nelson promised changes are afoot.

SYDNEY - An air and marine search is underway off the Australian east coast for two passengers who were discovered missing after a cruise ship docked in Sydney Harbor.

LOS ANGELES, Calif. - A choreographer and television personality who was a key witness in Michael Jackson's successful defence against child molestation charges is seeking permission to file a claim against the singer's estate alleging the pop superstar sexually abused him as a child, court records and an attorney said …

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's All Nippon Airways (ANA) said on Thursday it will return Boeing Co's 787 Dreamliners back to service from June 1 after the planes were grounded worldwide for more than four months. ANA, which is Boeing's biggest Dreamliner customer with 17 jets, also said it will introduce three international routes …

NEW YORK, N.Y. - A neighbour who helped free three women from nearly a decade in captivity in Ohio has become a star, offering moments of levity in an unspeakably horrible story, free publicity for a restaurant chain and unexpected lessons in race relations.

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WASHINGTON - A former top diplomat in Libya on Wednesday delivered a riveting minute-by-minute account of the chaotic events during the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi last September, with a 2 a.m. call from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and confusion about the fate of U.S. Ambassador …

WASHINGTON - A former top diplomat in Libya on Wednesday delivered a riveting minute-by-minute account of the chaotic events during the deadly assault on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi last September, with a 2 a.m. call from Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and confusion about the fate of U.S. Ambassador …

CLEVELAND - A man suspected of keeping three women captive inside his decrepit house for a decade was charged Wednesday with kidnapping and rape, accused of holding them under conditions so oppressive they were allowed outside for only a few moments in disguise and never saw a chance to escape until this week.

By Nicola Leske (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc has hired Deutsche Bank senior equity analyst Tom Ernst as a managing director to co-head its software banking team, a company spokesman said late on Wednesday. Ernst will be based in San Francisco starting early July and will lead the division with Ward Waltemath, the …