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Canadian Election Night in LA
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L-R: David Fransen, Consul General of Canada – Los Angeles and Lee Fraser, President of Canadians Abroad (Photo courtesy of Lulu Leszczynski)
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The Consulate General of Canada in Los Angeles co-hosted a Canadian Elections Event on October 14, 2008 in partnership with the LA expat organization Canadians Abroad and RBC Wealth Management. This exciting event brought together 75 guests, both Canadians and Americans interested in things Canadian. New Consul General David Fransen welcomed guests and delivered short introductory remarks. Dr. Patrick James, Director of International Studies at the University of Southern California and a Canadian, provided observations on the Canadian electoral process and current dynamics among Canada’s political parties. The realtime CBC coverage via C-SPAN was appreciated by all, as was the opportunity to network among fellow Canadians at such a key event. Interested in finding out about Canadian related events in your area? Be sure to check out the C2C National Events Calendar at www.connect2canada.com/connect/calendar.
Special Features
PM officially opens the 12th Francophonie Summit and supports increased funding to TV5
Friday, October 17, 2008
Office of the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Harper opened the 12th Francophonie Summit today in Quebec City, with some 50 heads of state and government, the Secretary General of the International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) and the Secretary-General of the United Nations in attendance.
“It is my pleasure to welcome you in Quebec City for this Francophonie Summit, the third to be held in Canada,” stated Mr. Harper. “The French language’s origins in North America started here some four hundred years ago when Samuel de Champlain first arrived in Quebec.”
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Government of Canada Strengthens Canadian Advantage in Credit Markets
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Department of Finance Canada
The Honourable Jim Flaherty, Minister of Finance, today took further action to strengthen Canadian access to international credit markets. In response to prolonged global financial market turbulence, Minister Flaherty announced the creation of the Canadian Lenders Assurance Facility, which will provide insurance on the wholesale term borrowing of federally regulated deposit-taking institutions.
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Canada, European Union to seek closer economic partnership
Friday, October 17, 2008
Office of the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that Canada and the European Union have agreed to work toward a historic, comprehensive economic agreement.
Prime Minister Harper, President of France Nicolas Sarkozy, and European Commission President José Manuel Barroso agreed to this initiative during the annual Canada-EU Summit.
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International News
Sommet à Washington
Mercredi 22 Octobre 2008
Radio-Canada
La Maison-Blanche a annoncé, mercredi matin, la tenue d'un sommet sur la crise financière mondiale, à Washington, le 15 novembre, après l'élection américaine.
Le président George W. Bush s'était déjà dit favorable à un tel sommet international, après sa rencontre avec le président français, Nicolas Sarkozy, samedi.
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Maude Barlow named to UN post
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Vivian Song, The London Free Press
Canada's internationally renowned water crusader, Maude Barlow, has been appointed senior water adviser to the United Nations president.
Barlow, described by international media as "the Al Gore of water'' and currently chair of the country's biggest public advocacy group, the Council of Canadians, will work directly with president Father Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann, who was elected to the 63rd general assembly in June.
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Canada ready to help Afghan negotiation talks: Ambassador
Monday, October 20, 2008
Tom Blackwell, The Province
After battling the Taliban for almost three years, Canada is ready and willing to help Afghanistan launch some kind of negotiation with the insurgents, the Canadian ambassador to Kabul said Monday.
Lower-level opposition fighters - fatigued after years of a war that has taken a disproportionate toll on their side - seem particularly "ripe" for reconciliation efforts, said Ron Hoffman.
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Mexico reopens border to Alberta beef
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The Edmonton Journal
Mexico has reopened its border to Alberta breeding cattle. The Canadian and Mexican governments negotiated the removal of an import ban that had been in place since August, when BSE was found in a six-year-old Alberta beef cow. It was the 14th confirmed case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in Canada.
Mexico will now accept Alberta breeding cattle born after January 1999.
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Vancouver Symphony fosters harmony with Chinese
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Aileen McCabe, Times Colonist
Thirty years after the last Canadian orchestra performed in China, the Vancouver Symphony delighted and moved a sold-out audience at the prestigious Beijing Music Festival last night.
For its second encore -- there were three -- the orchestra played Edward Elgar's Nimrod, from the Enigma Variations, a piece conductor Bramwell Tovey described as so steeped in the feeling of friendship "it is like a direct message to the people of China."
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Business and Trade
Bank of Canada sees sluggish growth until 2010
Thursday, October 23, 2008
CBC News
Canada's economic performance is expected to be sluggish through the first quarter of next year, the country's central bank said Thursday.
In its Monetary Policy Report, the Bank of Canada said growth is expected to pick up over the remainder of 2009 and to shoot to "above-potential" in 2010, as credit conditions improve and interest-rate cuts take hold.
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Ottawa garantit les prêts interbancaires
Jeudi 23 Octobre 2008
Michel Munger, La Presse
Le ministre fédéral des finances, Jim Flaherty, a fait cette annonce ce matin lors d'une conférence de presse. La mesure vise à redonner confiance aux institutions bancaires.
Les banques utilisent normalement le prêt interbancaire pour assurer leurs besoins de liquidités à très court terme, afin de pouvoir prêter à leurs clients.
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Loonie steadies after another drop
Thursday, October 23, 2008
CBC News
The Canadian dollar was steadier at mid-morning Thursday after falling more than 1.2 U.S. cents to 78.49 cents US in early trading. It was down 0.23 at 79.47 at 11:20 a.m. One U.S. dollar was trading at $1.2583 Cdn, up 0.36 cents from Wednesday's close. The loonie has fallen sharply recently, pushed down by a drop in oil prices and a rally in the U.S. dollar.
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B.C. forest companies are seeing increased interest from overseas
Monday, October 20, 2008
Brenda Bouw, The Canadian Press
Forest companies in British Columbia are seeing increased interest in their products from Asian countries that could soon be priced out of the Russian market thanks to a pending increase it its log export tax.
There is also hope the Russian tax, which will increase to 80 per cent from 25 per cent on Jan. 1, could help tighten supply and stop the downward spiral of lumber prices.
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U.S. seeks 'unfettered' Northwest Passage
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Hugo Miller, The Province
Access to the Northwest Passage, a long-sought shipping route through the Canadian Arctic that's opening up as a possible trade shortcut between Europe and Asia, must remain "unfettered," a U.S. official said.
"It's our view that the Northwest Passage is for international access and unfettered access needs to be maintained," James Steel, a U.S. Embassy counsellor in Ottawa, said at a Montreal conference on Arctic shipping.
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Canadian News
Premiers preach unity in face of economic crisis
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The Star Phoenix
Canada's premiers and territorial leaders stressed Monday the need for co-operation between themselves and with the federal government in the face of the global economic crisis as they concluded a meeting in Montreal.
The leaders mostly avoided talk, at least in public, about whether governments should run budgetary deficits to cope with the situation. But Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty was the exception. He said his province doesn't have many options beyond some limited cuts and running a deficit.
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Grand Prix: Gérald Tremblay reste confiant
Jeudi 23 Octobre 2008
Yves Schaëffner, La Presse
«On a eu une rencontre constructive, on a une meilleure compréhension des enjeux et il nous reste beaucoup de travail à faire pour évaluer les options. Il est toujours possible qu'un Grand Prix ait lieu à Montréal en 2009 et pour les années subséquentes», a assuré le maire Tremblay, en sortant des bureaux de Formula One Management, dans le très chic quartier de Knightsbridge.
Mesurant ses mots, le maire s'est dit «assez confiant» de conserver le Grand Prix de Forumle 1. Après la rencontre, la balle semblait être dans le camp montréalais. «Nous devons évaluer nos options, mais il est faisable de conserver le Grand Prix à Montréal en 2009 et les années subséquentes. Nous devons réfléchir», a poursuivi Gérald Tremblay.
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Pearson's finest hour
Monday, October 20, 2008
The Ottawa Citizen
And so we come to Suez, the greatest of the crises — and the greatest of the triumphs — in the statecraft of Lester Pearson. Even with the hindsight of today, this desert imbroglio seems no less dangerous to the peace of the world now than it did then — and Pearson's intervention no less critical to "saving" it, as his admirers would say later.
It was an opportunity made for Pearson, drawing on talents forged in a diplomatic career now reaching its zenith. It is as if all his 28 years in diplomacy (including eight as foreign minister) had been but preparation for those tumultuous days in the autumn of 1956. Nothing before or after was as momentous for him. In his long, eventful public life, Suez was his signature.
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A few far-sighted men paved the way for Canada to assert Arctic sovereignty
Monday, October 20, 2008
Stephen Hume, Vancouver Sun
For the second consecutive summer, the polar ice cap has dwindled to minimums not before seen in human history. This melting has astonished scientists with its speed and extent, provided new impetus to speculation about an emerging high-stakes scramble for Arctic resources and raised the spectre of challenges to Canada's sovereignty in the Far North.
The most powerful case for sovereignty flows from continuous occupation — and few could argue that indigenous citizens of Nunavut, the Northwest Territories and Yukon represent continuous occupation from time immemorial.
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The day TV saved Canadian hockey
Friday, October 17, 2008
Crash Cameron, The Edmonton Sun
A question: Can the Canadian thirst for hockey ever be quenched?
An answer: Sportsnet is 10 years old. In 1998, there was already an all-sports cable network as well as the two traditional national networks and local stations across the country.
Was there room for another one? And what was left to show?
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Opinion/Editorial
A link with Europe?
Friday, October 17, 2008
The Toronto Star
It's not every day that Prime Minister Stephen Harper borrows an idea from Pierre Trudeau. Perhaps once every three decades.
But today, after months of secretive preparations, Harper is belatedly throwing his political weight behind an idea whose time may have finally have come: A Canada-Europe free trade agreement.
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Le Québec libre de Sarkozy
Dimanche 19 Octobre 2008
André Pratte, La Presse
D'autres ont dénoncé cette «ingérence» du politicien français dans les affaires québécoises. Venue d'un courant politique qui vénère le «Vive le Québec libre!» du général de Gaulle et qui n'a eu de cesse de chercher l'appui des personnalités politiques françaises à son projet, l'accusation est franchement ridicule.
Selon Mme Marois, si M. Sarkozy parlait vraiment du Québec, alors il a mal compris le projet souverainiste, qui «n'est pas divisif, mais inclusif». Allons donc! Séparer une partie d'un pays pour en faire un pays distinct est, en soi, un acte de division. Les souverainistes croient que le jeu en vaudrait la chandelle, une opinion légitime partagée par un grand nombre de Québécois. Mais si la chef du Parti québécois pense sérieusement que l'indépendance du Québec n'est pas un projet «divisif», c'est qu'elle ne comprend pas elle-même la nature de ce qu'elle propose.
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