11:56 AM EST - Canadian Tire Corp. : said its financial services division will start offering mortgages, high interest savings accounts and guaranteed investment certificates. The company said it will first launch a limited pilot program for new retail banking products in Calgary, Alberta, and Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario, and could add additional financial products in the first half of 2007. Canadian Tire Corp.
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