PRESS DIGEST - Canada - Oct 26
Oct 26 (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 Harper government is looking at overhauling tax law to encourage bigger pension-fund surpluses, as part of a series of reforms to the country's crumbling pension regime to be introduced this fall.
- As the federal government and the provinces begin to roll out their mass vaccination campaign against H1N1 influenza this week, support for the inoculations among Canadians has plunged and the public is deeply divided about the need for the immunizations, according to a new survey.
- A 51-year-old Mississauga mother charged with killing her 15-year-old autistic son over the weekend will appear for a bail hearing in Brampton, Ontario, Monday.
The pair was staying at a local hotel Saturday night after a quarrel in the family home between the mother and her husband, who is the boy's father, police said.
BUSINESS:
- Canada's nine largest financial services companies have reached an agreement to give shareholders a vote next year on the same resolution approving the firms' compensation policies for top executives.
- Starting this week, retail investors in Ontario and Quebec will be able to place highly leveraged bets on derivatives from the comfort of their living rooms using their home computers.
CMC Markets Canada, in a new service to be announced this week that took regulators three years to approve, will offer the investments through its online trading platform.
The products, commonly referred to as contracts for difference or CFDs, allow those who buy them to profit (or lose) from the price movements of things such as oil, currencies and stock indexes.
NATIONAL POST:
- The editor of a Punjabi newspaper was held at gunpoint by three masked men outside the newspaper's offices northwest of Toronto late Friday night, during an attack and attempted kidnapping that may have been sparked by the Sikh man's anti-extremist political views, the victim said.
FINANCIAL POST:
- Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney said Canadians should not underestimate the "historic" restructuring ahead for the economy as it needs to adapt to a reshaped global marketplace in the post-financial crisis era.
