Ottawa (Canada), Feb. 13 : Canada''s Industry Minister Tony Clement will be visiting India between February 14 and 19.

According to a media release issued by the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi, Clement will be travelling to New Delhi and Mumbai.

While in India, Clement will meet with senior government officials and representatives from the business community to promote commerce, tourism and investment.

Last month federal government announced, in its budget, the formation of the Canadian Secured Credit Facility under which Ottawa will purchase up to $12 billion in securities from financial institutions including banks.

The securities would be supported by loans and leases on vehicles and equipment. This would enable the automakers to offer financing to more consumers and dealers.

This news comes as the much needed relief to the automobile industry scorched by recession. But they seem to be getting much too impatient to wait till June.

Vancouver - With just a year to go until the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the winter resort of Whistler, organizers are battling to stay within budget and maintain enthusiasm for the project.

Thursday sees the countdown for the 2010 Games reach the one-year milestone and the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee (VANOC) has called on all Canadians to forget the negative headlines that have surrounded the event, at least for one day.

Yellowknife, Canada  - Miyu, a petite lady from Tokyo, could not get over her astonishment. Darkness had fallen many hours earlier in Canada's Northwest Territories, and the temperature stood at minus 40 degrees centigrade. But something gradually appeared in the night sky that more than compensated Miyu for braving the cold: the northern lights.

Toronto, Feb.

Kabul  - A Canadian soldier was killed in a roadside attack and US soldiers killed an Afghan tribal chief and wounded another civilian who approached their convoy in a south-eastern province, officials said Sunday.

The soldier was killed when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in Zherai district of southern Kandahar province on Saturday, the Canadian defence ministry said in a statement.

Sapper Sean Greenfield from 2 Combat Engineer Regiment was the second soldier to die in Afghanistan this year, bringing the Canadian military's death toll to 108 since their deployment to the country in 2002.