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Canada - Nov 14

The following are the leading stories from selected Canadian papers. Reuters has actually not confirmed these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy.

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Canadian traveler train company Via Rail is taking Canadian National Railway to court over brand-new speed limitations and other guidelines in Quebec and Ontario.

The General Public Health Company of Canada confirmed that a British Columbia teenager who is seriously ill with bird influenza captured a variation of the highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 that has decimated farmed and wild birds across North and South America.

Japan's Seven & & I Holdings received a buyout proposal from a member of its founding Ito family, a potential $ 58 billion white-knight bid as it weighs a competing deal from Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard.

Per Bank, chief executive officer of Canadian supermarket merchant Loblaw Business said the business will lower rates on more than 400 food products cost the drug stores by roughly 10% to 15% to restore clients.

(source: Reuters)