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Travel both to and from Canada was down in January from December but travel from seven of Canada's top 12 markets increased, with China posting the largest gain, Statistics Canada reported on Thursday. The number of Chinese traveling to Canada rose by 20.4 percent during the month, while Japan showed the largest decline, down 14.5 percent, the report said. In total, there was a 1.7-percent increase in travel from overseas nations to Canada, but that was offset by a 3.3 percent decline in travel from the United States, resulting in a 2.5-percent decrease in visits from abroad. Canadian residents took 3.8 million trips abroad in January, 2.4 percent fewer than in December. Of these trips, 690,000 were made to overseas countries, a 6.6-percent decline. The number of Canadian trips to the United States dropped 1.4 percent. Source: chinaview … [Read more...] about Travel from China to Canada posts largest gain compared with other countries

Canada is the third-best country in the world to be a woman, according to rankings compiled by U.S. website Newsweek/The Daily Beast. Canada trails only Iceland at No. 1 and second-place Sweden, and is also the only non-European country in the top seven. The United States is eighth. The makers of these rankings gave Canada an overall score of 96.6 out of a possible 100. In the major categories judged, the country earned a full 100 points on justice, 92.7 on health, 92 on education, 91 on economics and 66.9 on politics. Newsweek said that Canada's "female representation in government lags behind." The African country of Chad was deemed the worst country to be a woman. "Women have almost no legal rights in Chad and most marriages are arranged when girls are 11 or 12," the website said. Afghanistan, where Canada recently ended about a decade of military combat, was deemed the second-worst country to be a woman. Newsweek said 90 per cent of females there are illiterate and 85 per cent of … [Read more...] about Canada ranked third for women’s quality of life