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Canada receives award for apology to all former students of Indian Residential Schools
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At an event hosted at the Embassy of Canada, Search for Common Ground, an international non-profit organization, presented an award to the Government of Canada for its apology to all the former students of Indian Residential Schools.
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Special Features
Speech from the Throne: Protecting Canada's Future
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Canada News Centre
Today, Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada, delivered the Government's Speech from the Throne to open Canada's 40th Parliament. In her speech, the Governor General outlined a broad agenda the Government of Canada will follow to protect Canada's future in a time of global economic instability.
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the Government of Canada will follow a five-pronged plan to protect Canada's economic security:
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Strong leadership to protect Canada’s future
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Office of the Prime Minister
In his official reply to the Speech from the Throne, Prime Minister Stephen Harper today served notice that he would use his new strengthened mandate to act quickly to protect Canadians in a time of global economic instability.
“All Members of Parliament should resolve to put aside clearly partisan considerations and try, wherever possible, to work co-operatively for the benefit of Canada,” said the Prime Minister. “This will help us deal with the enormous challenges that confront Canada as part of the global economy – challenges which have only grown since our election concluded just five weeks ago.”
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Ministers Cannon and Day to Participate in APEC Ministerial Meeting in Peru
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial Meeting in Lima, Peru, on November 19 and 20.
“Canada welcomes Peru’s leadership in hosting this year’s APEC meeting,” said Minister Cannon. “APEC is an important venue to discuss global issues. This year’s meeting will follow up on APEC’s work in the areas of counterterrorism, emergency preparedness and regional security.”
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International News
PM looks to fall in with U.S. on climate
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Tonda MacCharles, The Toronto Star
The Conservative government has formally pledged to work toward a North America-wide climate change plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions and reward industrial polluters who meet their targets.
It will pursue a carbon "cap-and-trade" system with the United States, and Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced his government would reduce "regulatory and other barriers" to natural gas pipelines in the North, boost nuclear energy projects, and support "cleaner energy supplies."
The government repeated its commitment to reduce Canada's total greenhouse
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Ontario, Ottawa going to Washington to suss out auto aid package
Monday, November 17, 2008
CBC News
An Ontario cabinet minister says he'll join federal Industry Minister Tony Clement in Washington this week to gather information about a possible U.S. aid package for struggling automakers.
Ontario Economic Development Minister Michael Bryant says Canada should move to help automakers before the Americans do.
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NATO allies meet in N.S. on Afghan violence
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Michael Tutton, Canoe.ca
Defence ministers with troops in southern Afghanistan meet in a tranquil Nova Scotia village Thursday and Friday, eager to hear how fresh brigades of U.S. soldiers may help contain rising militant violence.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay says details of the U.S. plan will be a key topic in informal and wide-ranging talks in Cornwallis, which are scheduled to include the defence secretaries of the United States, Robert Gates, and Britain, John Hutton.
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Harper says Canadians can breathe easier after G20 agrees on plan of attack
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Lee-Ann Goodman, Canadian Press
Canadians can breathe a bit easier about the global economic meltdown after the world's most powerful countries agreed on a series of measures to help ease the crisis, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Saturday.
"The declaration should give us all hope, and I would hope would give the markets some reassurance," Harper told a news conference, referring to the so-called G20 countries' communique following the end of their emergency summit.
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UN peacekeepers called on to battle piracy
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Abdi Sheikh, The National Post
The United Nations should send peacekeepers to Somalia urgently to stop the strife that is fuelling piracy and is being aggravated by feuding politicians, the African Union's top diplomat said on Thursday.
Gunmen from the chaotic Horn of Africa country grabbed world headlines with Saturday's spectacular capture of a huge Saudi Arabian supertanker loaded with US$100-million worth of oil, the biggest ship hijacking in history.
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Vancouver scientists help solve world isotope dilemma
Monday, November 17, 2008
Margaret Munro, The Vancouver Sun
Vancouver-based scientists are at the forefront of a team who say they have hit on "a uniquely Canadian solution" to the world's medical isotopes woes.
The team, which includes scientists from Triumf, the national particle and nuclear physics laboratory at the University of B.C., say intense beams of light should be able to generate isotopes for nuclear medicine.
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Canines, Cats and Canadians
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Ethan Baron
Let slip the pets of war.
Canadian soldiers can't always count on the civilian population for support in this battle-ravaged province, but local dogs and cats are jumping into Canada's war effort with all four paws.
At major military bases and remote combat-zone outposts, animals are helping keep Canadian soldiers healthy, happy - and safe.
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Business and Trade
PM vows economic protection
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Andrew Mayeda, Canada.com
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government on Wednesday pledged to shield Canadians from the global economic downturn.
The promise came in an austere throne speech that also vowed to put all public spending under the microscope and provide aid to struggling sectors such as the auto industry, while leaving the door open to a budget deficit.
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Ottawa forging ahead with national securities regulator plan
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Paul Vieira and Barbara Shecter, The National Post
Jim Flaherty, the Finance Minister, said on Wednesday Ottawa is forging ahead with "willing" provinces to create a national securities regulator because Canada's patchwork system remains flawed in the global context.
The "flaw we have in our system is that we still have 13 securities regulators. So we are going to go ahead and create a Canadian securities regulator," Mr Flaherty said following the Throne speech. "We are going to do this with our willing partners—which include some of the provinces. Those who choose not to [work with Ottawa] will not join."
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La retraite repoussée de six ans ?
Jeudi 20 novembre 2008
Olivier Bourque, La Presse
Nouveau sujet de conversation à côté de la machine à café: est-ce que mon plan d’épargne en vue d’assurer ma retraite tient le coup avec la dégringolade des marchés ?
Si vous avez tenu cette discussion ou si avez réfléchi à repousser votre retraite, dites-vous que vous n’êtes pas le seul.
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Why Canada looks likely to escape severe recession
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Jay Bryan, The Vancouver Sun
Stocks swooned again Monday amid new signs that the U.S. recession would be even more severe than expected, but there was a small ray of sunshine for ordinary Canadians.
While this country can't escape the serious drag from a U.S. recession, there's reason to believe that the slowdown in Canada will be a good deal less serious, says a new analysis by National Bank economist Yanick Desnoyers.
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Canada's mortgage consumers 'remarkably positive'
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Eric Beauchesne, The Ottawa Citizen
Canadians are still in a mood to mortgage.
Nearly four in 10 still think that now is a good time to buy a house, even though the proportion who expect home prices to fall has soared and the proportion expecting higher housing prices has plunged, according to survey results published yesterday.
"Residential mortgage consumers remain remarkably positive as they weather the financial storm," the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals said in releasing the results of a mid-October survey.
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N.B. companies seek Chicago opportunities
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Mary Moszynski, Times & Transcript
Business New Brunswick Minister Greg Byrne is hoping a trade mission to Chicago will help local businesses weather the current economic storm.
Byrne is in Chicago with 60 Atlantic Canadian businesses, including 15 New Brunswick companies, meeting with executives and selling the merits of doing business in the province.
The local businesses are meeting with Chicago-based companies to discuss potential opportunities.
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Canadian News
Ottawa pledges better food, toy safety
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Kevin Donovan, The Toronto Star
Ottawa will bring in tough new toy safety laws and also quickly launch an independent probe into the summer's listeria outbreak, the government announced yesterday.
In a section of the throne speech devoted to "safety and security," the Conservative government outlined plans to improve consumer confidence in a range of products.
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Nino Ricci wins Governor General's prize
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Canada.com
Nino Ricci has won the 2008 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction for his novel, The Origin of Species.
The Toronto writer beat out Rawi Hage (Cockroach), David Adams Richards (The Lost Highway), Rivka Galchen (Atmospheric Disturbances) and Fred Stenson (The Great Karoo).
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Canada's highest point seems to be higher, new readings say
Monday, November 17, 2008
Randy Boswell, Canada.com
Canada's highest point - the ice-covered peak of Yukon's soaring Mount Logan - may be due for an official re-measurement after an American researcher on a neighbourly flyby took readings that suggest this country's superlative summit has experienced a growth spurt.
The University of Alaska aerial survey, conducted last summer with a laser altimeter by Fairbanks-based geoscientist Sandy Zirnheld, pegged Canada's geographic zenith at 5,966 metres. That's seven metres higher than the official height of 5,959 metres, determined in 1992 after a celebrated climb to the top by a team of Canadian researchers led by Mike Schmidt of the Geological Survey of Canada.
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Report praises female flight attendant who helped land Air Canada Jet
Thursday, November 20, 2008
The National Post
A flight attendant aboard a transatlantic Air Canada flight that diverted to Ireland in January was "not out of place" when she took the place of a co-pilot who became belligerent and had to be removed from the cockpit, according to a report released yesterday. The report, issued by the Irish Transportation Ministry, said the female flight attendant—who had a commercial pilot's licence—replaced the first officer on the Boeing 767 flight bound for London from Toronto. It had 146 passengers and nine crew on board. The Jan. 28 flight diverted to Shannon, Ireland, for an emergency landing when the original co-pilot, a Canadian who was not named in the report, was removed from the cockpit.
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Plenty of promise in new Canadian TV comedies
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Rob Salem, The Toronto Star
With the recent announcement that the Trailer Park Boys are calling it quits at the end of this season, it has occurred to me that we are about to lose three of our most reliable sources of clever, topical and/or character-driven, distinctly Canadian homegrown humour.
Having made such inroads into convincing Canadians to want to actually watch their own programming, it seems a shame to relinquish such a large component of what is making the country laugh.
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Peter Milliken réélu président
Jeudi 20 novembre 2008
Radio-Canada
Les députés fédéraux ont décidé de reconduire Peter Milliken au poste de président de la Chambre des communes, lors du début des travaux sur la colline du Parlement, à Ottawa, mardi. Le député libéral de Kingston - Les Îles occupe cette fonction depuis 2001.
« J'espère que nous pourrons rendre la Chambre plus à l'ordre. Et je sais que les nouveaux membres vont intimer leurs collègues plus bruyants à baisser le ton pour que nous ayons une Chambre plus calme et plus productive », a déclaré Peter Milliken après avoir été « traîné » jusqu'à son siège de président, comme le veut la tradition
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Opinion/Editorial
Il s'est passé quelque chose à Washington
Mercredi 19 novembre 2008
La Presse
On pourrait être tentés d'accueillir le sommet des dirigeants du G20, qui se sont réunis ce week-end, avec le même scepticisme et la même indifférence que l'on réserve aux grands-messes internationales. Mais il s'est passé quelque chose d'important à Washington.
Au premier abord, les résultats du sommet sur les marchés financiers et l'économie mondiale peuvent sembler maigres. Les leaders se sont entendus sur la nécessité de poser des gestes qui contribuent à relancer l'économie, mais c'est quelque chose qu'ils faisaient déjà tous. Quant aux décisions vraiment difficiles, notamment la mise sur pied de mécanismes de contrôle du système financier international, ils les ont repoussées à plus tard, à une autre réunion prévue pour le 30 avril.
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Obama’s victory has great impact on black Canadians
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Donald H. Oliver, The Chronicle-Herald
Like countless other blacks across the U.S., Canada and indeed around the world, my eyes welled up with tears of jubilation in the late hours of Nov. 4 when Barack Obama was elected the 44th president of the United States. Against all the odds in a long and contentious struggle, he had broken through the great divide with dignity, intelligence and determination. And because of what he – what the people did – "on this date, in this election, at this defining moment, change has come to America."
This change has been a long time coming – and not just in the United States with its sad legacy of slavery, segregation and overt discrimination. Racism remains an original sin in most societies across the globe, including Canada. And unless you have felt its sting, you cannot truly appreciate its impact or import.
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