PRESS DIGEST - Canada - Nov 5

Thu Nov 5, 2009 12:08pm GMT
 
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Nov 5 (Reuters) - The following are top stories from selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL:

- The United Nations said Thursday that it is relocating more than half its staff in Afghanistan following last week's deadly Taliban attack against UN workers -- the most direct targeting of its employees during decades of work in the country.

BUSINESS:

- A flood of new models and co-operation with partner Fiat SpA (FIA.MI) will drive Chrysler Group LLC to break even in 2011 and repay its U.S. and Canadian government loans by 2014, Chrysler executives vow. - Fury erupted across Europe as government and union officials who spent months immersed in negotiations over the survival of Opel lashed out at GM for suddenly ending plans to give control to Magna International Inc. and Russia's Sberbank.

NATIONAL POST:

- The supply of H1N1 vaccine available for next week is expected to be 1.8 million doses, the federal government said on Wednesday, something which came as unexpected news to some provincial health authorities who have been eagerly awaiting that number.

FINANCIAL POST:

- Equity markets, which have been on the ropes as of late, might have been given a second wind Wednesday as the U.S. Federal Reserve declared its easy-money strategy was here to stay for the foreseeable future.  Continued...

 

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