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Flooding in Canada forces evacuation in another city Canadian authorities in the western city of Medicine Hat on Sunday ordered the evacuation of buildings in low-lying areas after flooding killed three people and forced 100,000 to flee.

24 June 2013

Chinese buy up Canada farms; is Beijing behind it? With too few farms in China to feed a burgeoning population, Chinese immigrants have started buying up agricultural lands in Canada and shipping produce to Asia.

23 June 2013

Hershey pays $4 mn fine for chocolate price-fixing US candy maker Hershey on Friday pleaded guilty to participating in a chocolate price-fixing scheme and paid a CAN$4 million (US$4.2 million) fine.

22 June 2013

100,000 flee flooding in Canada Flooding forced the evacuation on Friday of some 100,000 people in the western city of Calgary and nearby towns in the heart of the Canadian oil patch.

22 June 2013

Study blames men for menopause Men and their preference for younger female mates may have led to the phenomenon of menopause in women, according to a controversial study by Canadian researchers published this week.

16 June 2013

Quebec moves to allow assisted suicide The government of Canada's mostly French-speaking Quebec province on Wednesday unveiled legislation allowing terminally ill patients to kill themselves with a doctor's help.

14 June 2013

Video game hacks straight into US surveillance storm A video game with a protagonist who controls the world around him by hacking into systems is generating growing buzz, for its eerie parallels with the current storm about US surveillance.

14 June 2013

Canada accuses Nestle, Mars of chocolate price-fixing Canadian authorities charged Nestle, Mars and a network of independent wholesale distributors on Thursday over an alleged criminal conspiracy to fix the prices of leading chocolate bars.

07 June 2013

Kyrgyzstan declares emergency after bloody gold mine clashes Parts of Kyrgyzstan were under curfew Saturday after clashes between security forces and protesters who want a Canadian-owned gold mine nationalised led the president to declare a state of emergency.

01 June 2013

Shal and Zhauzhurek Myn Bala screened in Canada The first festival of Kazakhstan movies KAZCAN Film Festival was held in Vancouver.

30 May 2013

Canadian ISS astronaut returns to Earth a star Canadian spaceman Chris Hadfield on Tuesday returned to Earth along with two other astronauts after a half-year mission to the ISS that saw him become a global celebrity through his Twitter microblog.

14 May 2013

G7 nations meet as US pressures Europe over austerity Finance ministers and central bank chiefs from the Group of Seven leading economies will meet in the English countryside on Friday for talks on spurring growth, amid US-Europe divisions over the scale of austerity.

10 May 2013

GM recalls 43,500 hybrid cars in US, Canada for fire risk General Motors is recalling nearly 43,000 hybrid vehicles in the United States and around 500 in Canada to fix a defect that could cause a fire in the trunk.

08 May 2013

S. Korean toddler gets first windpipe transplant An international team of surgeons has successfully given a South Korean-Canadian toddler a life-saving windpipe transplant made from plastic fibers and some of her own stem cells.

02 May 2013

Football: Kazakhstan's rivals for 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification determined Kazakhstan women's national football team will play against France, Finland, Austria, Hungary and Bulgaria in the qualification tournament.

24 April 2013

Indian porn star dragged into rape debate Indo-Canadian porn star Sunny Leone has happily reinvented herself as a Bollywood actress. While her past pursuits have been no barrier, being linked to India's rape crisis represents a new challenge.

24 April 2013

Canada nabs two in alleged Qaeda-backed train plot Two foreign nationals have been arrested in Canada in connection with what federal police said Monday was a plot backed by Al-Qaeda to derail a passenger train in the Toronto area.

24 April 2013

Canada's rising oil production at risk if no new pipelines North America's pipeline network must be radically redrawn with new links such as Keystone XL to meet growing Canadian oil output, or risk a blow to the country's economy.

19 April 2013

Canadian scientists charged with smuggling germs Canadian federal police on Wednesday charged two former government scientists with allegedly trafficking in dangerous and highly contagious germs.

04 April 2013

Canadian researchers develop energy storage system Canadian researchers have developed a ground-breaking method which may ultimately enable excess energy created by wind turbines and solar panels to be stored for later use.

30 March 2013

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