Tag: Canada

• Wednesday, February 23rd 2011 - 07:04 UTC

  Canada and Australia have seven of the top ten most liveable cities in the world

  

  Canada’s Vancouver has been selected as the world's most liveable city, while Toronto remained the fourth most attractive place to live, according to the Economist magazine.

• Thursday, December 2nd 2010 - 19:38 UTC

  Canada’s Scotiabank ready to take over Uruguay’s third largest private bank

  

  Canadian Scotiabank (NYSE: BNS) is close to purchase the US private equity firm Advent’s stakes in Uruguay's third largest private sector bank Nuevo Banco Comercial (NBC) and consumer credit company Pronto!, was reported Thursday in Montevideo.

• Wednesday, September 1st 2010 - 19:04 UTC

  Canada satisfied with first contacts for trade agreement with Mercosur

  

  Canada is “satisfied” with contacts held with the Argentine government for the possible beginning of discussions regarding a free trade agreement with Mercosur, said Canadian International Trade minister Peter Van Loan said at the end of a tour of four Latin American countries

• Thursday, April 22nd 2010 - 02:43 UTC

  General Motors repay 8.1 billion to US and Canadian governments

  

  General Motors repaid Wednesday 8.1 billion US dollars in government loans, five years ahead of schedule and nine months after the troubled auto giant declared bankruptcy, signalling that the auto maker may be on the path to profitability.