NewsCan: For March 29 - April 5, 2007
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Canada Rocks at the Annual JUNO Awards
The Connect2Canada Team
Internationally-renowned Canadian singer/songwriter and JUNO Award winner Nelly Furtado hosted The 2007 JUNO Awards, Canada's Premier Music Celebration in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan on Sunday April 1st, 2007 on CTV.
A total of seven awards were presented throughout CTV's two-hour broadcast, which featured 10 performances, including a medley of hits by Furtado. Recording artist, producer and songwriter Gordie Sampson, who is featured in the latest Connect2Canada Podcast, was awarded "Songwriter of the Year". Listen to the interview.
Additional highlights from the broadcast included a double win for Billy Talent (Group of the Year, Rock Album of the Year), and the presentation of New Artist of the Year to Tomi Swick, and Jacksoul's win for R & B/Soul Recording of the Year. For information on past Juno Award winners, Hall of Fame inductees, and a complete list of this years winners, go to junoawards.ca.
Connect2Canadians Update
The Connect2Canada Team
Visit our updated Groups and Clubs page to learn about a variety of social and business organizations for Canadians across the United States. You can access over 90 national, regional and University groups and clubs. Recent additions include the Canadian Society of Southern California. If you know of a group which is not yet listed, please e-mail us at connect2canada@canadianembassy.org. If you want to form a Canada group in your area, let us know and we would be happy to promote it to other local Connect2Canada members.
Special Features
Canada's New Government Announces Patient Wait Times Guarantees With All the Provinces and Territories
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that all ten provinces and three territories have agreed to establish Patient Wait Times Guarantees by 2010.
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Governor General Announces 42 Caring Canadian Awards
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, announced today the names of 42 recipients of the Governor General's Caring Canadian Award.
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Prime Minister Harper pays tribute to Jean Béliveau
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today joined former team mates and members of Montreal's community to pay tribute to Jean Béliveau. Mr. Harper drew attention to Mr. Béliveau's role as a philanthropist and leader, and hailed him as a role model for future generations of Canadians.
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EDC Launches a USD 1 Billion 3-Year Global Bond
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Export Development Canada (EDC) announced that it launched a USD 1 billion 3-year Global Bond on Tuesday, the first global bond of its size in its corporate history. EDC last issued a global bond of USD 500 million in 2003.
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International News
WA gov, B.C. premier pledge cooperation on border crossings
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
David Ammons, SeattlePiCom
Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire and British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell pledged Wednesday to help lead a West Coast battle against greenhouse emissions, polluted air and troubled oceans.
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Canada to lease 20 modern tanks for Afghanistan mission
Thursday, April 5, 2007
David Pugliese and Jonathan Fowlie, CanadaCom
The Canadian government is proceeding with the lease of some of the most modern Leopard tanks on the market as it boosts its equipment stocks in Afghanistan.
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Lack of funding blurs border between US, Canada
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Bill Porter, BostonCom
The line cuts across woods and prairies, meanders along rivers, hops across mountains, and strolls through a public library between Vermont and Quebec. Now, it also is running into controversy.
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Canuck diplomat Taylor lauds Iran
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Beth Gorham, CNews
Iran is trying to shed its wild-card image and establish itself as a mature country willing to negotiate by releasing 15 captured Britons, former Canadian diplomat Ken Taylor said Wednesday.
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S. Korea-U.S. deal paves way for Canada
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Steven Chase and Greg Keenan, The Globe and Mail
Canada-South Korea free-trade talks are expected to move faster now that Seoul and Washington have signed a landmark agreement to lower market barriers, a deal that experts say is a rough draft of what Ottawa can expect to get.
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Canada pushes for access to detainee
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Debra Black, The Toronto Star
The Canadian government has officially asked Ethiopia for consular access to a former Toronto resident being detained in the capital Addis Ababa.
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Business and Trade
VCs, Startups Starting to Hum Words to 'O Canada'
Monday, April 2, 2007
Katie Weeks, San Diego Business Journal
San Diego venture capitalist Stuart Collinson admits it wasn't geography but a promising antibiotic that drew Forward Ventures to lead a recent $18 million investment in Canadian startup Affinium Pharmaceuticals Inc. (View a front page image of the San Diego Business Journal, PDF format)
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Jobless rate holds at 6.1%
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Reuters, The Toronto Star
Canada's economy added a stunning 54,900 jobs in March, whizzing past forecasts and fuelling market expectations that the Bank of Canada's next rate move will be an increase though not for some time yet.
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Deux contrats pour Bombardier Transport
Mercredi 4 avril 2007
Jean-François Cloutier, LaPresseAffairesCom
Bombardier (BBD.B) obtient deux nouveaux contrats pour sa division ferroviaire, l'un en Belgique et l'autre en Ouzbékistan.
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MasterCard bets $1.4-billion on Canada
Thursday, April 5, 2007
Tavia Grant, The Globe and Mail
When MasterCard Inc. created a billion-dollar global foundation last year, it could have set up shop in any city in the world, from London to Shanghai. It chose Toronto, quietly establishing the largest foundation in Canada -- and signalling that the value of the Maple Leaf may be, well, priceless.
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Canada's air force picks Lockheed
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Richard Burnett, The Orlando Sentinel
Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Orlando missiles unit has won a lucrative deal to supply Canada's air force with advanced targeting systems for its jet fighters, the company said Monday.
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Royal Dutch wins fight to take Shell Canada private
Monday, April 2, 2007
Tavia Grant, The Globe and Mail
After a five-month battle, Royal Dutch Shell PLC on Monday declared victory in its plan to buy the rest of Shell Canada and take the company private.
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Canadian News
Application surge costs Passport Canada $5 million
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Kenyon Wallace, CanadaCom
Beleaguered Passport Canada officials had to spend an extra $5 million to cope with a flood of passport applications due to U.S. border rule changes.
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Charest exigera de la discipline de la part de ses députés
Jeudi 5 avril 2007
Martin Ouellet, CyberPresse
À la tête d'un gouvernement minoritaire, le premier ministre Jean Charest aura ses troupes à l'oeil pendant la prochaine session qui se mettra en branle le 8 mai. Les députés, a-t-il prévenu jeudi, devront être disciplinés et assister assidûment aux travaux en Chambre.
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Warming Thins Herd for Canada's Seal Hunt
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Doug Struck, The Washington Post
Hunters and animal rights activists face off on the ice this week as Canada's annual seal hunt begins, but a succession of unusually warm winters in the Gulf of St. Lawrence already has drowned thousands of the animals.
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Juno giants proud to partake in made-in-Canada event
Sunday, April 1, 2007
Heather Adler, CanadaCom
Juno weekend is that one special time of year when Canuck artists get together to celebrate all that's red, white and rock, but, like being a Canadian itself, everyone has a different take on what it all means.
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Vancouver leads Canadian cities in world survey
Monday, April 2, 2007
CBCNews
Not only do Vancouverites live in the world's third-best urban centre, but they also enjoy the highest overall quality of life in Canada.
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Florida kids dig Canada -- for credit
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Leah McLaren, The Globe and Mail
It is a glistening, green Wednesday morning in Jacksonville, Fla., but I'm stuck indoors, slouched at the back of a Jacksonville University classroom with a bunch of American college kids. I am here to sit in on Professor Eric Thomas's history class: International Studies 350/A Survey of Modern Canada.
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Scientists Spot Mutation Linked to Birth Defects
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
Ed Edelson, The Washington Post
Canadian researchers say they have found the first genetic mutation clearly linked to neural tube birth defects such as spina bifida in humans.
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Opinion/Editorial
Our own kind of music
Friday, March 30, 2007
CanadaCom
The Juno Awards ceremony, which will air on Sunday night, has become an increasingly glamorous event over the last few years. This is because the Canadian pop music scene has undergone something of a renaissance of late.
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Idées pour Montréal
Mercredi 4 avril 2007
Nathalie Collard, CyberPresse
De toutes les villes canadiennes, c'est à Vancouver qu'on vit le mieux selon une liste établie par une firme de consultants en ressources humaines. Basé sur des critères comme l'accès aux soins de santé, la qualité de l'air, la vie culturelle et le service de transport en commun, ce palmarès de la qualité de vie situe Ottawa en quatrième position, 18 places devant Montréal qui fait piètre figure en 22e position.
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U.S. papers go home
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
The Toronto Star
During the summer, the last full-time American newspaper correspondent in Canada will close his bureau's doors for the final time.
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