The Canadian to be reviewed nuclear power safety

The Canada has five nuclear power plants in different States of operation.

The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission has established a working group to assess the impact of operational, technical and regulatory of the nuclear disaster at the Japan for the Canadian plants.

Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex was severely damaged by the March 11 earthquake and the tsunami that hit the northeastern coast of the Japan and continues to release radiation into the environment as officers work desperately to get the reactors under control.

The geese of the standing Canada near Pickering Ontario Hydro nuclear power station. Ontario Hydro is the most important power in North America. Andy Clark/Reuters.

The Canadian commission has decided to implement the Working Group at its meeting of March 30.

"The members of the Working Group will examine the responses of the licensees at the request of CNSC information under subsection 12 (2) the General nuclear safety and regulation of review to review the respective cases of the safety of their nuclear installations."", underlying in-depth defence against externesscénarios of serious accidents and guidelines and emergency procedures," said a press release of the CNSC.

The Canada has seven nuclear power plants located at five locations in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick.

Employment of the Working Group will be recommending short and long term measures to address Canadian nuclear Central significant deficiencies and determine if design changes are necessary.

The Fukushima Daiichi crippled nuclear plant sees this picture Tokyo Electric Power Co., exit on April 14. The utility giant still works on a plan to end the nuclear crisis a month after the start. Tokyo Electric Power Co./Reuters

The Working Group recommends that, if appropriate, potential changes in regulatory requirements, for inspection and programs policies for CANDU reactors and for potential new nuclear power plants, according to the release of the commission.

Members will also determine priorities for the implementation of corrective actions based on lessons learned and the need, if any, for further examination. The Working Group will present its findings to the commission at a public forum, even if the date has not yet been decided.

The Working Group will be chaired by Greg Rzentkowski, the Director-General of regulation of nuclear power, and members will consist of senior experts in the design of the reactor, security assessment and the emergency preparedness and response.

The most recent accident at a Canadian nuclear power plant was in mid-March when 73 000 litres of water demineralized leak in Lake Ontario of the Pickering a nuclear power plant.

Ontario Power Generation, which operates the plant, located 35 kilometres east of Toronto, told the CNSC that seal of pump failure was the cause.

Ontario Power Generation, said that the risk was minimal, but that these leaks are not supposed to happen.

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Waves of multi-year high Canadian dollar

TSX rises to 1.2% at 13, 897 48Dow rises 1.5 per cent at the stage of the North American market 12,453.54 their largest gathering of a day of the yearBack links to accessibility

The Canadian dollar hit a Wednesday top 3? years and North American markets held their largest gathering of a day of the year.

Gold reached another record as the U.S. dollar weakened.

Closed loons of cent 104.90 0.35 cents after touching a high of 105.29 cents US, its the highest level since November 2007.

Some economists said that the rally was propelled by a move products investors seeking safe haven, tangible investment.

The Canadian dollar hit a new multi-year high in prices of raw materials and concerns about the health of the US economy. (Canadian Press)

Markets responded to concerns about possible inflation, as the reserve Federal American expands the money by $ 600 billion supply and effects on recovery as this stimulus ends this summer.

Traders are also concerned by the possibility of a downgrade of the U.S. government debt after that the rating agency Standard and prevents Monday Poor one in three chance that he would lower the rating over the next two years.

"It is a history of US dollar as the combination of loose monetary policy and a compromise budget post weigh heavily against the [ticket]," said Camilla Sutton Scotia Capital Chief currency strategist.

The weaker greenback has helped push the price of oil above US $111 a barrel. Oil also rose after a report showed U.S. supplies gasoline fell for a second week, suggesting higher fuel have not slowed demand.

June crude closed with a gain of $3.17 or 2.9% to $111.45 per barrel.

In Toronto, the S & P/TSX Composite Index finished the day at 160.65 points, or 1.2%, to 13,897.48, supported by solid materials and oil issues.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average rose to 186.79 points, or 1.5%, to 12,453.54, its highest level since June 2008.

Advance of the dollar followed a period prior to more than 8 tenths of one cent Tuesday after figures of higher inflation more convinced traders the Bank of the Canada can pass to the increase in the rate of interest in July.

Statistical Canada said Tuesday that country's inflation rate increased by 3.3% in the 12 months ending in March, the highest since before the recession.

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg expected the figure to come more close to 2.8%.

Also supported metal prices into account in the rising Canadian dollar.

Gold rising above US $1,500 an ounce Wednesday for the first time as concerns over the health of the economy sent U.S. investors flocking to a shelter.

Future of gold for June delivery settled at $3.80 to $1,498.90 an ounce.

In its warning, Standard & Poor cited a "material risk" that the politicians could not agree on how reduce the budget deficit in the medium term, say to the United States a "very large budget deficits and rising government debt and the path to the solution of these is not clear for us."

This issue could continue to have an impact on the U.S. greenback, said Sutton.

"The dollar should weaken further that the combination of fiscal policy and monetary us weighs heavily on the prospects", she said.

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Palestinian President rejects new uprising against Israel - the Canadian Press

Palestinian President rejects new uprising against IsraelBy Bouazza Ben Bouazza, The Associated Press - 44 minutes ago

TUNIS, Tunisia - the Palestinian, the President said Wednesday he is opposed to another uprising armed against Israel, even if faltering peace efforts fail later this year.

Mahmoud Abbas told journalists in Tunisia that it maintains its commitment to the target to the U.S. to reach a peace agreement negotiated with Israel in September. But with the talks blocked for months, he reiterated his plan to unilaterally seek United Nations Palestinian independence endorsement in the absence of an agreement.

Abbas said that he would turn to the General Assembly of the United Nations, where he said, he expects some 140 countries to vote in favour of an independent Palestine.

Given that the decisions of the Assembly are not legally binding, the vote would be largely symbolic, and we know what will be the Palestinians after this.

Abbas said whatever happens, he did not have an option of violence. "I did not accept a third military uprising," he said, noting that the last armed uprising against Israel, over the last ten years, "was disastrous for us."

Some 6,000 Palestinians, with more than 1,000 Israelis, were killed during the years of fighting that erupted in September 2000. The fighting also heavily damaged the Palestinian economy.

Abbas said that he still supported "popular resistance" - or events - against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank. Said Israel these events are often violent, and the militants are sporadically, killed or injured, in clashes with Israeli forces.

"We have popular resistance," he said. "But to say that you want to hold a weapon to fire or pistol fight, so please excuse me, I will not allow that as long as I am President".

Israel and the Palestinians has relaunched the peace negotiations in September last in the White House, where President Barack Obama is committed to forging a peace agreement in the year.

The talks have failed just three weeks later after the expiration of an Israeli moratorium on the construction of the colony. The Palestinians say there is no point in negotiating if Israel continues to build homes for Jews in the West Bank and East Jerusalem captured in the Palestinian territories claim for their future State.

Abbas has said he will return to the negotiating table if Israel stops the construction of the colony and is committed to an almost total withdrawal from the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said the peace talks should start without any preconditions.

September is shaping up to be a month key to peace efforts. The Palestinians say that in the absence of a peace agreement, they will take their case to the Organization of the United Nations.

They can expect a strong support to the General Assembly, but it seems unlikely that they can gain recognition of the more powerful Security Council.

The United States, who exercises the power of veto, the Council has been cool to the idea of a unilateral declaration of independence, saying: Israel and the Palestinians must resolve their dispute through negotiation. Still, international widespread support for Palestinian independence

The Palestinians won an important recognition last week when the donor States, which send hundreds of millions of dollars in aid each year said institutions developed by the Palestinian Authority are now "above the threshold of a functional State."

International support for the Palestinians has put pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to offer his own diplomatic plan to end the impasse.

Netanyahu should be a major policy speech to the Congress of the United States next month. But officials close to the Prime Minister said he did not yet decided what he plans to say.

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Canadian photographer wins the Pulitzer

Los Angeles Times Barbara Davidson photographer won the Pulitzer for a series of images which it Erica Miranda, 10, who was shot three times while playing basketball outside his home in Compton, California (Barbara Davidson / Los Angeles Times / Associated Press)

A native of Montreal Barbara Davidson, a photographer working for the Los Angeles Times, is among the winners of the Pulitzer Prize, announced Monday.

She won the prize of photography of functionality for a series of images on victims of violence in the street in Los Angeles. Davidson spent almost two years to win the confidence of island communities such as South Los Angeles, Compton and Watts before striking images of those which have been slaughtered, many of them innocent victims.

This is Davidson a second Pulitzer - she won for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, when she worked for the Dallas News.

There are seven awards Pulitzer for drama, music and letters and 14 for journalism while the price for the latest news did not this year. The prize is administered by Columbia University and is equipped with 10 000 US dollars.

One visit Jennifer Egan team Goon, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. (Associated Press)

In fiction and drama, filled Chicago writers a blow, for Jennifer Egan taking a Pulitzer Prize for his novel a visit from the Goon Squad and Bruce Norris winner for Clybourne Park.

Egan novel is "the inventive investigation grow and old growth in the digital age, displaying a curiosity big-hearted on cultural change at the speed of light", the Pulitzer Board said in its citation. A visit from the Goon team also experimented with format, with a long section structured as a PowerPoint presentation.

Clybourne Park examines race relations and the effects of modern gentrification in a fictional neighborhood of Chicago. The play created at Playwrights Horizons, in New York in February before moving to London.

Other winners in writing and music:

History: The Fiery trial: Abraham Lincoln and slavery to the United States by Eric Foner.Biography: Washington: a life by Ron Chernow.Poetry: the best: New and Selected Poems by Kay Ryan. non-fiction: the Emperor of all the ills: a biography of Siddhartha Mukherjee.Music Cancer: by Zhou long Madam White Snake

In journalism, the New York Times took two Pulitzer – for international reporting and commentary.

Clifford j. Levy and Ellen Barry won the prize in international reporting for their examination of the failing justice in Russia system, while David Leonhardt won the award for his economic commentary on topics ranging from the deficit of the US federal budget to health care reform.

The price of production of investigative reports went to Paige St. John's Herald Tribune Sarasota, Florida for a survey of the State blurred property insurance system which has finished stirring regulatory measures.

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Gas more high prices bite Canadian drivers: CIBC

Canadian consumers could wind up paying $ 12 billion in fuel costs higher in 2011 if the soaring gas prices remain in place for the rest of the year, according to a new report published Monday.

CIBC Imperial Economics, the arm of the economy of the Canadian Bank of Commerce, said rising pump for all 2011 prices would result in $950 to suck every Canadian household to feed their cars and trucks.

High gasoline prices are expected to bite of consumer budgets. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press)

"Do anything you look it, high energy bite significantly in the pockets of Canadian households," said CIBC Economist Benjamin Tal, author of a report on how the cost of crude oil would affect individual consumers.

World oil prices have already increased by more than 20 percent since April 2010 and the Canadian gasoline prices have more follow-up costume, increased by 32% since last September, CIBC estimated.

In addition, some forecasters now believe global prices average $100 per barrel in 2011, higher than the average of recent years.

Increases the economic demand in countries so-called emerging, such as the India and China, combined with a weakening of the dollar conspired to send prices at the pump at levels not seen since the territory of nosebleed of mid-2008.

Three years previously, a barrel of crude oil rose to 147 dollars in summer.

Now, the Canada station prices are at a distance spitting where they were in 2008, Tal said.

Between October 2007 and July 2008, gross expenses jumped 40 percent.

And prices at the pump, which stood at $1 per litre in July 2007, hit $1.40 approximately 12 months later.

Interestingly, people did not reduce their conduct in response to the rising prices in 2008, deciding instead just to pay more for the privilege of ploughing through the streets and highways of the country, he said.

"The Canadians kept driving, which could be replicated in 2011." If history is a guide, higher prices will have no impact on oil demand in the short term, "Noted Tal."

Indeed, gasoline prices could be a language good, economic "inelastic" for a product or service for which the application does not change much in response to the rise in the price, said Tal.

If this is true, Canadians will pay 12 billion dollars, or $950 for each household of rising prices of gasoline, in 2011, near a record percentage of own consumption, estimated CIBC.

"It is equivalent to an increase of seven per cent in the average Canadian tax bill," said Tal.

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Killer plays on the Canadian scene

Bertrand Cantat was found guilty of manslaughter for the death of French actress Marie Trintignant heartbeat. Canadian singer PressFrench and killer Bertrand Cantat let appear in a piece by Wajdi Mouawad, planned for next year's season to prestigious Theatre's new world of Montreal.

Director of Lorraine Pintal confirmed Friday that Cantat appear not to TNM or the National Arts Centre in Ottawa, where he was to perform in the new room of Mouawad of women in Cycles.

The decision comes after several days of controversy over the role of the Cantat in the new stage of the Mouawad work.

Cantat served four years in prison after he was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Marie Trintignant, his girlfriend and distinguished actress, 2003.

Lorraine Pintal, Executive Director, TNM. (Canadian Press)His invitation to the TNM and arts centre a passionate debate and devisive in the industry for the arts in Quebec.

Some people applauded the TNM for his daring and appetite for provocation.

Other violently Theatre renowned for downplaying the gravity of the crime of Cantat.

Politicians demanded that Cantat did not allowed to the Canada.

Minister of culture in Québec Christine St-Pierre refused to take a position in favour or against the appearance of the Cantat on stage.

"Violence is unacceptable," she told the National Assembly of Quebec, when on the theatre scandal. "It is the Canada of the Immigration to decide whether Mr Cantat may enter the country, and we will respect the decision of the Canada of the Immigration."

Under the rules of the immigration of the Canada, Cantat is technically eligible to enter the country because of the nature of his criminal record. Should request a ministerial certificate to circumvent the rules.

The storm on what Quebec media have dubbed "Cantat affair" reached to Avignon, France this week, where playing the Mouawad is on the calendar to the popular city in the summer theatre festival.

Veteran French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant - the father of Marie - was to perform at the festival in July.

But this week, he announced his withdrawal from the Avignon Festival, telling Le Figaro that he ' hates' Cantat more than any other in the world. "

Cantat reacted by cancelling its own appearance at the Avignon Festival. In a statement issued Friday, Cantat said for "personal reasons" and by respect for the pain of Jean-Louis Trintignant it conduct not Mouawad exhibit at the festival.

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Canadian Mint unveils his marriage royal parts

The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled its latest pieces commemorating the marriage of Prince William and Kate Middleton.

The two pieces marking the Royal Wedding planned April 29 - a coin of money of $20 and a piece of 25 cents - go on sale immediately.

The design of the $20 piece, created by the portrait artist Laurie McGaw of Guelph (Ontario), includes an engraving of William and Kate looking with love in the eyes of the other.

Exhibit of royal marriage of $20 includes a Sapphire Crystal, reminiscent of the sapphire engagement ring and 18 carat diamond worn by Kate. Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press

Incorporated into the coin is a Sapphire Crystal, reminiscent of the sapphire engagement ring and 18 carat diamond worn by Kate.

The exhibit is also engraved along its border with h.r.h. Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton in English and French, and there is also a heart hidden among its maple leaves.

25 Cents coin nickled - which will cost $25.95 - has a reproduction of a colour photo of the royal couple based on a photograph taken at the wedding of a friend in Austria 2008.

The $ 20 silver medal is limited to 25,000 worldwide and will retail for $may.

The currency has a long history of honoring the Royal milestones. Its President, Ian Bennett, called the marriage come "an opportunity invaluable to celebrate the pride of the Canada in the Royal tradition."

In may, the Mint will also launch a vast array of pieces from collection of the sixtieth anniversary of the reign of Queen Elizabeth.

The first two pieces of silver in his "Crown Series continuity" were released on 15 March, portraying the princes William and Harry in ultra-high relief. A piece of their father, Prince Charles, will be published in September.

William and Kate are planned to pay an official visit to the Canada this summer.

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