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Riel

The currency of Cambodia. It was issued in 1980, ending a five-year period during which Cambodia had no monetary system. The U.S. dollar also circulates in Cambodia, particularly in urban areas. Additionally, merchants along the border often accept the Thai baht.

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Chan Sophal, an economist and director of the Center for Policy studies, said the riel experiences cyclical f luctuations against the dollar it's often weakest during the rainy season due to lower demand.

Strong Dollar Not Helpful for Cambodia

Laporte must have realized, when he tried to pull down the Riel effigy then drove away with a crowd in hot pursuit (see the sidebar), that his actions could affect his future as the proprietor of the "only First Class French Canadian Hotel in Winnipeg.

Zepherin Laporte: the "Forrest Gump" of Red River

Liberal MP for Winnipeg South Centre, Anita Neville stated that "Louis Riel is a symbol of the struggles that Canada had to endure in our early history, and his legacy is a matter of national importance.

Character of historical Metis leader Louis Riel disputed in MP's brochure

This year's Riel Day celebrations were sponsored by the Metis Nation of Ontario, the Metis National Council, the Law Society of Upper Canada, and the city of Toronto.

Riel would be proud of Metis remembrance

Louis Riel Day is commemorated each year in Toronto on November 16, the anniversary of his execution in 1885.

Canada : City of Toronto honours Mtis people at flag raising for Louis Riel Day Translate

The guest speaker is Shirley Delorme Russell, educator and resource co-ordinator at the Louis Riel Institute.

MHS multicultural dinner

Louis Riel Institute to offer courses at National Historic Site

Manitoba pipestone: special section providing news from Manitoba

For five days, Lalaine has been waiting for word about her eldest child, Jan Riel, an excavator operator, who was buried with nine other people by tons of soil in Wednesday's (February 13) collapse of the Panian open mine pit of Semirara Mining Corp.

It's hard to just wait, I want to help dig

In his December 2009 newsletter entitled "The Truth About Louis Riel" and distributed to members in his federal riding and posted on his website (it has now been removed), Edmonton East MP Peter Goldring "sets the record straight" stating that those who want to recognize Riel as a Father of Confederation "have sunk to a level comparable to that of modern Japan, where schoolbooks are sterilized to remove their Second World War shame, in the effort of sanitizing history.

MP's anti-Riel comments condemned by Metis, government officials

Louis Riel will have on the future interests of the federal and provincial governments, and the Metis (if not all Aboriginal people).

Metis exist outside the west

The great-grand-niece of Louis Riel and niece of Pearson-era Cabinet minister Roger Teillet is a member of the bars of Ontario, British Columbia and the Northwest Territories.