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"BANDthology-This Game Rocks!"

CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - Nov. 18, 2008) - Editors Note: A photo is included with this press release. What will be the 'must-have' gift under the tree this year? The ultimate board game for music lovers - BANDthology(R)!...

Thallion Initiates Enrollment in Phase II Metastatic Melanoma Trial

MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - Nov. 18, 2008) - Thallion Pharmaceuticals Inc. (TSX:TLN) today announced that the first patient has been enrolled in its Phase II trial evaluating TLN-232 as a treatment for metastatic melanoma...

Homeland Energy Notifies GMR of Intention to Issue Shares

Homeland Energy Group Ltd. announces that it has given notice to GMR Energy of Bangalore, India that the company intends to issue Homeland Energy Group shares at a price of approximately C$0.455/share as a means for Homeland to...

ZENN Motor Company Adopts Shareholder Rights Plan

TORONTO, ONTARIO - ZENN Motor Company Inc. ("ZMC" or "the Company") (TSX VENTURE:ZNN) reports that its Board of Directors has passed a resolution implementing a Shareholder Rights Plan Agreement (the "Rights Plan"). The Rights...

RCMP grill applicants on bestiality, drug

JIM BRONSKILL THE CANADIAN PRESS OTTAWA — So you want to be a Mountie? The RCMP says the candid questionnaire is a crucial tool for screening out people unfit to wear the red serge in the post-9-11 era, when terrorists and...

Economy No. 1 for new Canadian Parliament

OTTAWA, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- Canadian parliamentarians returning to Ottawa Tuesday face the government mandate of making the economy top priority, senior officials said. The 308 members of Parliament were to convene Tuesday to...

Merit of Afghan 9/11 rugs questioned

TORONTO, Nov. 18 (UPI) -- The artistic merit of hand-knotted Afghan rugs depicting aircraft hitting New York's World Trade Center towers is being questioned in Toronto. More than 50 Afghan rugs are being auctioned through...

FACTBOX-Financial crisis hits global energy investment

Nov 18 (Reuters) - Petro-Canada defers construction of an upgrader for its C$21 billion ($17 billion) Fort Hills oil sands project. Harvest Energy Trust defers C$2 billion ($1.6 billion) expansion of Come By Chance refinery in...

Obama has to kick the 'CrackBerry' habit

The Associated Press TORONTO -- And now the U.S. president-elect is facing another significant habit-kicking struggle -- giving up his BlackBerry. But for Obama, kicking the BlackBerry habit may not be easy. The mere thought of...

Joyriders rough up diamonds

RANDY FIEDLER/THE CANADIAN PRESS A Mountie walks through a baseball diamond torn up by truck-driving vandals in Red Deer, Alta., Nov. 14, 2008. Vandals take 161-tonne dump truck out for a spin in Red Deer, Alta., destroying...