NewsCan: For Oct 26- Nov 01, 2007
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Calling All Hockey Fans: Where Do You Watch?
The Connect2Canada Team
The NHL season is in full swing, and hockey fans from both sides of the border are getting together to catch the action. The C2C Team is compiling a list of your favourite hockey viewing establishments throughout the US. Be it a big name sports bar or a local pub, we would like to hear about it! Please email us at connect2canada@canadianembassy.org with the name, address, and website (if available) of the establishment. Feel free to tell us what you enjoy most about that particular place. We'll assemble the list and post in on the Connect2Canada site. Stay tuned for an update in an upcoming edition of NewsCan!
3rd Annual FBI vs. Canadian Embassy Benefit Hockey Game
The Connect2Canada Team
On September 30, the FBI Washington Field Office hockey team faced off against the Canadian Embassy hockey team at the Verizon Center following a Washington Capitals vs. Ottawa Senators pre-season game. This was the third time the two teams have met for their annual charity hockey game with proceeds benefiting the FBI Agents Association Fund. The event raised over $3000 for the fund, which provides financial assistance to children of FBI agents killed in the line of duty. Each of the teams had an excellent turnout of fans, but the Embassy's spirited cheering sections gave them the momentum to win the game. Both players and fans alike look forward to continuing the tradition in 2008.
Special Features
Canada's Government Delivers Broad-Based Tax Relief for Individuals, Families and Businesses
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, today presented the Government's 2007 Economic Statement, which proposes broad-based tax relief for all Canadians, including a further reduction of the goods and services tax (GST).
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Canada to accept up to 265,000 new immigrants in 2008
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Citizenship and Immigration, announced today that Canada expects to welcome between 240,000 and 265,000 newcomers in 2008.
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Government of Canada Introduces New Legislation to Confirm the Visual Identification of Voters
Monday, October 26, 2007
The Honourable Peter Van Loan, Leader of the Government and Minister for Democratic Reform and the Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, today introduced in the House of Commons, An Act to Amend the Canada Elections Act (visual identification of voters).
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International News
Business leaders seek faster Canada-U.S. border crossing after delays
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Beth Gorham, Canadian Press, Chronicle Journal
After a "summer from hell" at the Canada-U.S. border, business leaders in both countries called Tuesday for faster action to eliminate worsening bureaucratic hassles that are costing them big money.
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NATO praises Canada's Afghan role
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Allan Woods, Toronto Star
Canada is making an "enormous contribution" to the NATO mission in Afghanistan but the military alliance needs more countries to offer relief and support within the next six months, NATO's deputy secretary general said.
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Canada to press NATO to share burden
Monday, October 29, 2007
Jane Taber, Globe and Mail
Defence Minister Peter MacKay says he and Prime Minister Stephen Harper want clear commitments from other NATO countries by April for increased troops and equipment in southern Afghanistan.
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Satellite to defend Canada gets international help
Monday, October 29, 2007
Tom Spears, CanWest News Service, Canada.com
Canada will "vigorously" defend its Arctic sovereignty with a new satellite, one launched and mostly built by the very countries that dispute our northern claims.
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Cap sur l'Asie
Mardi 30 octobre 2007
radio-canada.ca
Le Cirque du Soleil voit grand. Après Macao, où il aura bientôt deux spectacles permanents, l'entreprise québécoise de divertissement entend s'installer pour de bon en Chine continentale d'ici 2010.
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Border towns face security crackdown
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Craig Offman, National Post, Canada.com
Intentionally built on the border of the United States and Canada more than a century ago, the Haskell Free Library and Opera House is an enduring gesture of peace between two nations. But last month it played host to a unusually awkward moment.
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Business and Trade
Un sommet en près de 50 ans
Lundi 29 octobre 2007
radio-canada.ca
Le dollar canadien a atteint un niveau inégalé en près de cinquante ans, lundi. Le huard en a effet atteint 1,05 $US en cours de journée, une première depuis mars 1960.
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Dollar looks set to surge, again
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Malcolm Morrison, Globe and Mail
The Canadian dollar could be set to blow through its all-time high this week on a combination of U.S. dollar weakness, high oil prices and a strong economy. But it could also be under some pressure because of narrowing interest rate spreads between Canada and the U.S. if the Federal Reserve cuts rates on Wednesday.
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Internet shopping by Canadians cashing in on high loonie causes parcel backlog
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Canadian Press
A surge in Internet cross-border shopping by Canadians trying to cash in on the soaring loonie is creating headaches for consumers, border service agents and Canada Post.
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Canadian Bankruptcies Decline In September
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Canadian Economic Press
The number of Canadian consumers and businesses filing for bankruptcy fell in September from the month before, according to figures released Wednesday by Industry Canada.
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Canada poised for boom in 'clean tech'
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Rhéal Ségun, Globe and Mail
Venture capital is at a crossroads, a leading industry figure says, and Canada is well-positioned to reap the benefits.
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Merger creates oil patch giant
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Norval Scott, Globe and Mail
Canada's newest energy powerhouse, forged yesterday by the proposed merger of Penn West Energy Trust and Canetic Resources Trust, is poised to challenge the oil patch's biggest players as it seeks even more aggressive expansion through acquisitions and new projects.
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Petro-Canada still plans oil sands developments
Friday, October 26, 2007
Reuters Canada
Petro-Canada is still planning major oil sands developments in Alberta, following announced changes to the province's royalty structure, although it is clear that the moves will mean higher costs, an executive said on Friday.
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Canadian News
Tories' mini-budget survives confidence vote
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
cbc.ca
Despite their opposition to a proposed GST cut, Liberal MPs abstained on Wednesday from voting on the Conservative government's economic statement, ensuring its passage.
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Les impôts les plus bas en 50 ans
Mercredi 31 octobre 2007
Joël-Denis Bellavance, Cyberpresse.ca
Les coffres débordent plus que jamais à Ottawa et le gouvernement Harper ne pouvait cacher plus longtemps ce trésor bien garni sans se faire fusiller par ses propres partisans. Le ministre des Finances, James Flaherty, a donc déposé hier un minibudget qui offre des baisses d'impôts et de taxes de près de 60 milliards de dollars aux contribuables et aux entreprises au cours des cinq prochaines années.
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Passport reforms not helping
Monday, October 29, 2007
Terry Pedwell, Winnipeg Free Press
Passport Canada is reporting continued long delays in processing mailed-in passport applications, despite a streamlined renewal process and hundreds of new employees. And there is concern those delays will only get longer as the busy winter travel season approaches.
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Forestry aims for carbon neutrality
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Lynn Moore, Montreal Gazette, Canada.com
Canada's forest industry intends to burnish its image by going carbon neutral by 2015, the Forest Products Association of Canada says.
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Blair heaps big praise on all things Canadian
Saturday, October 27, 2007
James Stevenson, Winnipeg Free Press
Former British prime minister Tony Blair used his first public visit to Canada since retiring from politics four months ago to heap praise on almost everything Canadian -- from its cities and soldiers to its energy reserves and wine.
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Immigrants can't be forced to learn French: Quebec language watchdog
Monday, October 29, 2007
cbc.ca
The head of the advisory body that oversees language policy in Quebec says it would be unethical for the government to impose the need to learn French on immigrants.
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U of A makes academia Top-10 list
Thursday, November 01, 2007
Edmonton Journal, Canada.com
The University of Alberta has been named as one of the world's leaders in a new ranking of the best places to work in academia.
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Opinion/Editorial
Our vision for Canada
Saturday, October 27, 2007
Father Raymond J. de Souza, National Post, Canada.com
We have a dream. Actually, we have 14 of them -- spelled out in the 14 entries in the "Fixing Canada" series that appeared in the National Post comment pages these last two weeks. Each of our 13 authors -- and one cartoonist -- was asked to describe the single thing about Canada that he or she would change if magic-ally empowered with the prerogatives of benign dictatorship (or, to borrow a less disquieting image from George Jonas' column, a genie's wish).
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The Dalai Lama's plea
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Toronto Star
Prime Minister Stephen Harper was right to meet Tenzin Gyatso, the Dalai Lama, on Parliament Hill yesterday, even if Tibet's exiled spiritual leader came bearing a challenging moral message. The revered Buddhist is a man of peace who deserves a hearing in high places.
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Consumers have power over prices
Friday, October 26, 2007
Toronto Star
Last year, when the Canadian dollar was worth 86 cents (U.S.), a consumer product, such as a pair of shoes or pants, with a $100 price tag in an American store in Buffalo or Niagara Falls, N.Y., should have sold for close to $116 in a Canadian store in the Greater Toronto Area. And in many cases, the price in Canada was a lot more than $116.
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