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The Impact Entrepreneurship Group and the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) have joined forces to reach out to youth across Canada and raise awareness about leadership and entrepreneurship. On November 21-22nd, 2008, young leaders, business professionals and prominent entrepreneurs from across Canada will be converging at the 2008 Impact National Conference. As Canada's largest youth entrepreneurship and leadership event, the conference will bring together the top 500 youth leaders and entrepreneurs who will shape Canada's future with the goal of helping them become self-starters and lead the entrepreneurship movement, consistent with this year's theme of "The Movement Starts Here."
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Two four-time winners are among the list of winners of the 2008 Governor General's Literary Awards announced today by the Canada Council for the Arts. The awards are given in the categories of fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction, children's literature (text and illustration) and translation, in English and in French.
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At the request of the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, along with her husband, His Excellency Jean-Daniel Lafond, will make a State visit to the Republic of Hungary, the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovenia, from November 24 to December 6, 2008.
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On the occasion of a State visit to the Republic of Hungary, the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovenia, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, will host a celebration of culture and friendship in honour of these four countries at Rideau Hall on November 18, 2008, at 4 p.m.
The Honourable Jean-Pierre Blackburn, Minister of National Revenue, announced today that the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) is encouraging Canadian research by making it easier for businesses to apply for the scientific research and experimental development (SR&ED) tax credit.
Ottawa, Ontario, November 17, 2008... The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) has revoked the charitable registration of the Pinnacle Foundation, a Vancouver-area charity. This revocation was effective November 15, 2008.
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has confirmed bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in a seven-year-old dairy cow from British Columbia. No part of the animal's carcass entered the human food or animal feed systems.
Health Canada is reminding Canadians that raw bivalve shellfish - such as oysters, clams, scallops, mussels and cockles - can carry bacteria, viruses and toxins that can cause foodborne illnesses if they are not stored, handled or prepared appropriately.
