Press Digest: Canada - Aug 13

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13/08/2020 13:20

Aug 13 (Reuters) - The following are the top stories from
selected Canadian newspapers. Reuters has not verified these
stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.
    
    
    THE GLOBE AND MAIL
    ** More than a year after it was silenced by the federal
government, Canada's international pandemic surveillance and
alert system, the Global Public Health Intelligence Network
(GPHIN), has been brought back to life. https://tgam.ca/3kHeTG4
    
    ** Canada-based financial services firm GMP Capital Inc has
reworked the proposed C$420-million ($317.89 million) takeover
of its wealth management subsidiary on Thursday to reflect the
realities of a post-pandemic market. https://tgam.ca/3kFHOdB
                
    ** Canada's telecom regulator Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) will provide $72 million to
help bring faster internet to more than 10,000 households in
northern Manitoba, Yukon and the Northwest Territories. https://tgam.ca/2XYaCUP
       
    NATIONAL POST
    ** Canadian Employment Minister Carla Qualtrough made
assurances on Wednesday that the federal government would
smoothly funnel millions of Canadians from its key COVID-19
financial aid program into employment insurance, as a major
end-of-month deadline looms. https://bit.ly/2XYTjTD
    

            


($1 = 1.3212 Canadian dollars)

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