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Zhang Mo of Canada hits a return to Cheng Hsien-Tzu of Taiwan in their women's preliminary round game in the ITTF World Tour 2012 China Open in Shanghai on May 24, 2012. The ITTF World Tour 2012 China Open will run from 23-27 May.

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  • War of 1812 bicentennial sites, events all over US

    attack in 1813, http://www.sacketsharborbattlefield.org/, and Old Fort Niagara, which was a base for the U.S. invasion of Canada but was captured by the British in 1813. A ceremony marking the bicentennial of the declaration of war is scheduled for Fort Niagara 5/23/12 Read more »

  • Advocate: Man thought he beheaded alien on bus

    and Li discuss the night of July 30, 2008, when Li sat on a bus next to McLean that was traveling on a desolate stretch of the TransCanada Highway bound for Winnipeg. Thirty-seven passengers were aboard the bus."He was on the lookout for aliens as such, and   Read more »

  • Quebec students mark 100 days of tuition protests

    higher tuition fees began. The protest comes after Quebec's provincial government passed emergency legislation intended to end Canada 's most sustained student demonstrations ever.Protesters carrying red banners and signs, the color of the demonstrations,   Read more »

  • Motel 6 being sold to private group for $1.9B

    billion.The French company says Motel 6 and Studio 6, an extended-stay economy chain, encompass 1,102 hotels in the U.S. and Canada .Accor SA says the deal, expected to close in October, will give it the resources it needs to boost growth in the Asia Pacific   Read more »

  • As Facebook grows, millions say, 'no, thanks'

    countries where people are only starting to get Internet access. As it is, about 80 percent of its users are outside U.S. and Canada .But if Facebook is to live up to its pre-IPO hype and reward the investors who are clamoring for its stock this week, it needs   Read more »

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About Canada

Canada (pronounced /'kʰænədə/ in English and /kanadɔ/ in Canadian French) is the world's second-largest country by total area, occupying most of northern North America. Extending from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, Canada shares land borders with the United States to the south and to the northwest.

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