CA-CANADA Summary (Reuters)

Canada bans exports aiding Iranian energy sector

OTTAWA (Reuters) ? Canada will immediately ban the export to Iran of all goods used in the petrochemical, oil and gas industry, as part of an international sanctions package, the government said on Monday. Canada, the United States and Britain are limiting contacts with Tehran over concerns about Iran's nuclear program.

Ontario judge upholds Occupy Toronto evictions

TORONTO (Reuters) - A Canadian judge upheld an order to evict protesters camped in a downtown Toronto park on Monday, giving the Occupy Toronto movement until midnight to vacate the park it has held for more than a month. Ontario Superior Court Judge David Brown ruled the eviction order - issued by the city last Tuesday and challenged in court by the protesters - did not violate the demonstrators' freedom of expression and peaceful assembly.

Canada oil sector must keep cleaning up act: Prentice

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The U.S.-imposed delay of TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL oil pipeline shows Canada's energy industry cannot relax efforts to improve its environmental record, a former top minister in Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government said on Monday. The U.S. move has also helped build consensus that the oil industry must lessen its near-total export reliance on the U.S. market, said Jim Prentice, who left the Conservative government last year to become vice-chairman of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce.

Insight: Lessons for U.S. from Canada's "basket case" moment

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Finance officials bit their nails and nervously watched the clock. There were 30 minutes left in a bond auction aimed at funding the deficit and there was not a single bid. Sounds like today's Italy or Greece?

Analysis: Ontario deficit targets at risk as outlook dims

TORONTO (Reuters) - A worsening economy will hurt Ontario's chances of meeting already long-term plans to balance its budget as it prepares for a fiscal update on Wednesday. The government has said its fall economic statement will show a C$16 billion ($15.5 billion) deficit for 2011-12, but warned that revenue projections and growth targets will fall to reflect recent private sector downgrades.

Alberta lowers estimate for budget deficit

CALGARY, Alberta (Reuters) - The Canadian province of Alberta, home to much of the country's oil production, forecast on Monday that its budget deficit for the current year will be lower than first expected due to strong sales of oil exploration lands but higher than its first-quarter estimate. In its second-quarter update on the budget, the province forecast it will post a $3.1 billion deficit for the 2011-12 fiscal year, down $341 million from the estimate in its budget documents, but well above the $1.3 billion deficit it projected in its first-quarter update.

No alternative to F-35 fighter jet, US, Canada say

HALIFAX, Nova Scotia (Reuters) - Defense chiefs from the United States and Canada said on Friday that budgetary pressures would not derail development of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, saying there was no real alternative to what has become the Pentagon's costliest weapons program. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said flatly he was confident Congress would approve funding for the F-35, which is facing fresh scrutiny for possible cuts as lawmakers weigh how to scale back the U.S. deficit.

Inflation eases but rate cut seen less likely

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's annual inflation rate moderated in October from a near three-year high in September but was still higher than expected, scaling back market bets for a central bank interest rate cut. The consumer price index (CPI) rose 2.9 percent in October from a year earlier, easing from 3.2 percent in September as gasoline prices rose at a slower year-on-year pace, Statistics Canada said on Friday.

Canada's Asian oil push not a slap to U.S.: minister

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada is looking to diversify the market for oil sands crude by courting buyers in Asia, and is not trying to punish the United States for delaying TransCanada Corp's Keystone XL pipeline to Texas, the country's natural resources minister said on Friday. Ottawa officials including Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Natural Resources Minister Joe Oliver have spent the past few weeks traveling to Asia, partly to sell China and other countries on the idea of buying oil from Canada.

Canada, Mexico defeat USA in WTO meat ruling

GENEVA (Reuters) - Canada and Mexico won a trade case against a U.S. law on meat labeling at the World Trade Organization on Friday. A WTO dispute panel agreed with their complaint that U.S. mandatory labeling laws were too stringent, giving U.S. cattle and hog sales an unfair advantage over imports from Mexico and Canada.

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