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The Financial Action Task Force in Canada said Thursday the multi-government group tasked with putting in place anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing practices in the country has plugged loopholes. View full post on Banking Stories

AHN News Staff Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – A report by the Mowat Center for Policy Innovation recommends that more discussions be held on the proposed raising of the retirement age in Canada. Similar laws have been passed or are pending in other Western countries grappling with a graying population and shrinking work force. Finance [...]

AHN News Staff Montreal, Quebec, Canada (AHN) – More political careers in Canada are being placed on the chopping block in response to residents’ disenchantment with public officials. Just a few weeks after British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell resigned over the unpopular harmonized sales tax imposed in July, another premier is the target of an [...]

AHN News Staff Toronto, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – Ontario Labor Arbiter Kevin Burkett ordered Tuesday the province to hike the salaries of nurses and other staff by four percent over two years. The decision would favor about 17,000 unionized nurses and other medical staff in over 60 Ontario hospitals. Burkett issued the favorable ruling to [...]

Ayinde O. Chase – AHN News Editor London, United Kingdom (AHN) – An iPhone operating system glitch caused many Europeans to oversleep an hour Monday morning and turn up late to work. iOS 4.1 users in Britain reported their alarm clocks failed to account for the end of Daylight Savings Time. Their phones did in [...]

AHN News Staff San Francisco, CA, United States (AHN) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hinted at a San Francisco forum that Washington is inclined to allow more oil sands from Canada. She made the statement in response to a question from the audience at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. The indication of [...]

AHN News Staff Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – The federal government of Canada and the Public Service Alliance of Canada have entered into a tentative agreement that would cover about 95,000 public employees. Treasury Board President Stockwell Day announced the deal Monday with Canada’s largest federal union. The pact provides for a 5.3 percent salary [...]

AHN News Staff Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (AHN) – The federal government of Canada will announce on Thursday that it will lift the freeze on Employment Insurance premiums. The freeze was part of the economic stimulus package offered by Ottawa to battle the recession. The lifting of the freeze was originally scheduled Jan. 1, 2010, but [...]

Jeehan Fernandez – AHN News Writer Amory, MS, United States (AHN) – Steel Development Co. and Anshan Iron and Steel Group Corp. (Ansteel) fixed a joint venture operating agreement with partners from the United States, Italy, Japan, Germany and Canada to establish an ecologically-sound steel facility in Amory, Mississippi. The partnership plans to put up [...]

AHN News Staff Montreal, Quebec, Canada (AHN) – Almost 40 percent of Quebec male high school students are dropping out of the educational system. In worst cases, such as at Pierre-Dupuy, the dropout rate is almost 80 percent. Pierre-Dupuy Principal Ginette Rioux explained the unusually high rate of male dropouts in their school to having [...]