Word: canadians
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...parent's nightmare. But before you panic, consider this: U.S. and E.U. health and environment authorities still stand behind polycarbonate plastic, putting the safe level of daily bisphenol A exposure at more than 25 times the levels found in baby bottles. (The Canadian agency, Health Canada, is currently reviewing its bisphenol A policy; conclusions...
...only be confined to the eastern shores of the Atlantic. In fact, Canada may experience more significant effects than the United Kingdom itself should the act be amended. Canada, still legally a commonwealth of the United Kingdom, has determined that the Act of Settlement is a part of Canadian constitutional law. Therefore, amending the act would require an amendment to the Canadian constitution as well. Although the vast majority of Canadians feel no allegiance to Britain and believe in republican status for Canada, it has remained a commonwealth because changing its political status would lend legitimacy to Qu?...
...Though he finds the song “surprisingly applicable” to the looming economic recession, Rakoff is more upbeat about the recent electoral turnaround in Florida, claiming to be overjoyed. He’s a resident of New York City since 1983 and a dual American-Canadian citizen since 2003 and a professed liberal. “I’m so glad that reason somehow prevailed, and that [Rudy Giuliani] is no longer ‘America’s Mayor,’” he says. However, he finds it hard to shake...
...approved its mission, for example, the Bundestag stipulated that German soldiers could not be sent to the volatile southern part of the country. Most of Germany's 3,200 troops are, as a result, deployed in the more stable north. NATO troops in the south, including British, Dutch and Canadian forces, have taken correspondingly more casualties. Canada has lost 78 soldiers since arriving in 2002. Most of the 42 British losses have been in the south...
...Those casualties are taking a toll at home. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned last month that Canada would pull its 2,500 troops out of Afghanistan altogether by early next year if allies do not agree to send more troops to the embattled Kandahar province, which stretched Canadian troops now on patrol. "Kandahar is the center of the Taliban insurgency," he told reporters in Ottawa last month. "If NATO cannot put all the necessary troops and equipment in Kandahar province, I don't think it's ultimately going to do it anywhere...