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Tuesday, October 14, 2008

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A Canadian carnival lights up the night sky in Windsor, Ontario, across the river from the U.S. city of Detroit, in Michigan.

Canada ranked fourth in an annual UN list of the most desirable places to live worldwide.

The Human Development Report 2007/2008, which took into account factors such as literacy rates and GDP per capita, also noted that Canada "has a long history of global leadership on global atmospheric environmental issues, from acid rain to ozone depletion and climate change."

However, the North American country is struggling to curb its carbon emissions as its economy grows: it currently has one of the highest levels of per capita emissions in the world, the report said.

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