March 14 (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 two years after U.S. authorities began
investigating Kinross Gold Corp K.TO for alleged corruption in
Africa, the case remains unresolved, but details of the
company's financial activities are starting to leak out.
Brazil's political crisis deepened on Sunday when
opposition parties seized the occasion of nationwide
anti-corruption demonstrations to push for a change in power. An
estimated 1.8 million people took to the streets in peaceful
protests across the country, demanding the resignation of
President Dilma Rousseff.
The federal government is fond of boasting about how its
controls on weapons exports are among the strongest in the
world, but Canadians are left largely in the dark over precisely
what military and security equipment is being shipped to foreign
customers - including those with poor human-rights records.
POST
** The sudden resignation of longtime Royal Bank of Canada
director Joao Pedro Reinhard, who faces a drug-related charge,
should mitigate "reputational contagion" at Canada's largest
bank, corporate governance experts say.
As the Bank of Canada hunts down a candidate to become
the first Canadian woman on a banknote, numismatists are
pointing out that there's already been one. Princess Patricia,
who died in 1974, was the wildly popular daughter of a Canadian
Governor General whose portrait was chosen to grace a patriotic
$1 note issued in the midst of the First World War.