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Canadians have come to love their barbecues. It is as much a part of our culture as hockey and Tim Hortons. [...]

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(CNW) From calculating a tip in Mexico to chewing gum in Singapore, many Canadians admit they are baffled and sometimes mistaken when it comes to tipping etiquette and understanding customs when vacationing overseas, according to the TD First Class Travel International Etiquette Poll. The poll found three quarters of Canadians (76 percent) are planning on [...]

The China of our imagination is gone replaced with acres of condominiums, multi-decker super highways crowded with foreign-made cars, ultra-modern skyscrapers, fashion-conscious urbanites, KFC restaurants and Starbucks. For Canadians, China has always been a mysterious place that we first discover when we study the adventures of Marco Polo in grade school. After the revolution in [...]

Swimmer adds visit to Olympic pools on her travel itinerary. BY LAURA E. YOUNG If you go to China, you need your passport, a visa and tickets, and if you want to swim at the Water Cube, site of the 2008 Olympics, you need a deep water swimming certification to swim in the deep section. [...]

This just in: Subject: Toys of Misery Made in Abusive Chinese Sweatshops The U.S. National Labor Committee has issued a comprehensive new report. The full report is available on the NLCnet home page and has many photos. Toys of Misery Made in Abusive Chinese Sweatshops http://www.nlcnet.org/reports.php?id=610 Chinese workers work excessive overtime and are paid illegally [...]

Consider this news release from United Here, a labour group that is waking up Canadians to the fact that there is a good reason the number of Canadian manufacturing jobs are shrinking. CNW/ – Labour union, UNITE HERE announced today it has launched a cross country campaign to persuade Reebok to bring back to Canada [...]