| Employment and Social Development Canada
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The Canada Council for the Arts announced today that dancer/choreographer Margie Gillis is the winner of the 2008 Walter Carsen Prize for Excellence in the Performing Arts. The $50,000 prize, administered and presented by the Canada Council for the Arts, recognizes the highest level of artistic excellence and distinguished career achievement by Canadian artists who have spent the major part of their career in Canada in theatre, dance or music.
| Canadian Institutes of Health Research
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September is Arthritis Awareness Month. This is a time to highlight the outstanding work of health researchers across Canada who are striving to create a pain free future for the nearly 4.5 million Canadians who suffer from this crippling condition. The following experts are available to comment on some of the latest research related to the diagnosis, treatment and management of the many forms of arthritis.
Septembre est le mois de la sensibilisation à l'arthrite. C'est donc l'occasion de faire valoir le travail exceptionnel des chercheurs en santé partout au pays qui s'efforcent de bâtir un avenir exempt de douleur pour les quelque 4,5 millions de Canadiens qui souffrent de cette maladie invalidante. Les experts qui suivent sont à votre disposition pour parler des dernières recherches liées au diagnostic, au traitement et à la prise en charge des diverses formes d'arthrite.
Today, the RCMP held its National Memorial Service at the RCMP Academy, "Depot" Division. The ceremony honoured members, special constables and auxiliary constables who lost their lives in response to an operational policing duty in which there was the element of life-threatening risk.
The Government of Canada today issued the following statement condemning the series of bombings perpetrated in New Delhi, India, on September 13, 2008.Terrorism
| Employment and Social Development Canada
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The Bank of Canada, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Sûreté du Québec, and the Service de Police de la Ville de Montréal are warning the public that counterfeit $100 notes of the latest bank note series (the series that features a metallic stripe) are circulating in the Greater Montréal Area.
Captain (Navy) Holly MacDougall, the Canadian Forces Director of Military Prosecutions (DMP), has withdrawn the charges against former Master-Corporal Clayton Matchee. Ex-MCpl Matchee was charged under section 130 of the National Defence Act with Torture, contrary to section 269.1 of the Criminal Code of Canada, and Murder, contrary to section 235(1) of the Criminal Code of Canada. The charges arose as a result of the death of Shidane Abukar Arone, a Somalian teenager, on 16 March 1993, during the deployment of Canadian troops in Somalia.
| Employment and Social Development Canada
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On Thursday, 18 September 2008, John Murray, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Canada, will speak at the Certified General Accountants of Ontario annual Practitioners' Convention.
