As in most professional sports, pay levels have rocketed in recent years, the more painfully as Canada's dollar has slid.
Or because Canada's dollar is strengthening (now worth 82 American cents), giving Americans a nice bump from money earned north of the border.
Because of the weakness of the Canadian dollar, clashes also loom with Canada on lumber and wheat.
The Fed, ECB, BoJ, BoE, SNB and the Bank of Canada lowered interest rates 50 basis points on dollar swaps, and China lowered its required reserve ratio by 50 bps, the first cut since 2008.
YPF, a privatised Argentine oil giant, has gobbled up Canada's Bitech, and paid less than a dollar a barrel for its reserves.
Transport Canada officials told Reuters it was too early to provide a dollar amount for the indemnity assistance.
The US dollar soared against its counterpart to the north earlier today as negative data in Canada combined with falling oil prices to weaken the loonie.
At the summit, Mr Harper raised with Mr Obama Canada's concerns that the Buy America provisions in the multibillion dollar US economic stimulus plan could shut out Canadian companies.
Fantasy football was played offline for years until the advent of the Internet rocket-launched it in the late 1990s from a niche hobby to a multimillion-dollar industry reaching 30 million online players last year in the United States and Canada.
Bristol-Myers also said in its letter to Icahn on Thursday that it "has no intention of agreeing to any modifications" to the rights it holds to Erbitux, ImClone's billion-dollar colon cancer drug, which is jointly marketed by the two companies in Canada and the United States.
The U.S. rental market also has seen increasing interest from Canada, which saw its currency strengthen significantly against the U.S. dollar starting about four years ago, before softening over the past year.
China's economy is the world's seventh largest, bigger than Canada's and Russia's, with a GDP climbing toward the trillion-dollar level.
These figures reported by Statistics Canada resulted in a weaker loonie which fell to almost 1.0670 versus the U.S. dollar.
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