Jan 20 (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
** A dispute over unpaid charges claimed by a supplier has
left thousands of Canadian customers of the NetTalk Internet
phone service without the ability to receive calls except from
fellow NetTalk subscribers. NetTalk.com Inc is a Florida-based
company that began selling a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
telephone service in Canada in 2013.
Canada's Defence Minister says the country's exclusion
from a key U.S.-led meeting this week on the campaign against
Islamic State is no big deal and that Ottawa isn't being cut out
of key decision-making after the Trudeau Liberals announced
plans to pull Canadian jets from the fight.
Quebec is facing the first signs of revolt over its
planned long-gun registry, an unexpected breach in a province
regarded as the staunchest defender of gun-control measures in
Canada. Some provincial Members of the National Assembly have
started expressing reservations about the registry, and an
anti-registry petition has gathered more than 20,300 names
online.
The country's largest newspaper chain, Postmedia Network
Canada Corp PNCa.TO , is merging once-competing newsrooms and
cutting about 90 staff as it tries to cope with declining
revenue and a heavy debt load.
POST
** Canada has lost credibility as an investment destination
because of its inability to build export infrastructure, a
recently retired senior executive at China's CNOOC Ltd
0883.HK , one of the country's top three oil and gas companies,
said on Tuesday.
Canadian crude oil exports to the United States reached
its highest level ever of 3.4 million barrels per day in the
first week of January, according to preliminary data from the
U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Despite recent market volatility and exposure to low oil
and commodity prices, Bank of Nova Scotia BNS.TO has set
double-digit growth targets in four Pacific Alliance countries:
Mexico, Chile, Colombia, and Peru.