Word: toronto
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...joined in the debate. During a trip to Calgary, Hamm was asked to speak on the situation, since the province of Nova Scotia donated the tree to Boston. “When it left Nova Scotia, it was a Christmas tree,” Hamm said, according to the Toronto Globe and Mail. The tensions surrounding the tree this year have cast a shadow over a tradition between Boston and Canada. For the past 34 years, Nova Scotia has sent a carefully-selected tree to Boston as a gesture of gratitude for the help that Boston gave to Halifax?...
Thousands of miners staged a violent two-week demonstration last September in Las Claritas, Venezuela, close to the Brazilian border. They blocked the border highway, burned trucks and threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at national-guard troops. Their main target was Crystallex, a Toronto-based company that since 2002 is said to have held the legal rights to Las Cristinas--the world's fifth largest gold mine, with 12.5 million oz. of proven reserves...
...trade. In another speech, in September, Chvez warned that in order to "recover the national power and sovereignty of our resources," Venezuela "will not give any more mining concessions to transnationals," and it may even revoke some. The day after that broadside, Crystallex's share price on the Toronto Stock Exchange plummeted 40%, to $1.50. Shares of other firms mining gold in Venezuela, like Idaho-based Hecla, also took hits--especially when Chvez promised to create a competing, state-owned company that would employ the illegal miners. Jonathan Goodman, CEO of Toronto-based mining firm Dundee Precious Metals...
...Monster's Ball, all the films he has made since A Knight's Tale got critical drubbings or have been commercial busts or both (including this year's The Brothers Grimm and Lords of Dogtown), at least in the U.S. Even Brokeback Mountain, which was the talk of the Toronto and Venice film festivals and has generated lip-smacking advance criticism, could be a tough sell. Many people might find the notion of gay cowboys too jarring In Texas, where the movie is partly set, voters just overwhelmingly endorsed a ban on gay marriage. But producer James Schamus is confident...
...best thing I’ve done so far,” though he admits he didn’t do it for the money. He says he actually took a pay cut by choosing to spend three-and-a-half months filming in New York and Toronto last Spring instead of touring around the world. So why did he sign up?“I did it because I felt like it was an opportunity to draw everyone close to me,” he says, adding that he hopes the movie will help the public understand where...