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Special Features
Minister Day Launches Campaign to Help Canadian Business Expand Abroad
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, today launched the annual advertising campaign for the Canadian Trade Commissioner Service while delivering a speech at the Toronto Board of Trade. The two-month campaign includes billboards in nine airports across Canada, web advertising and ads in select Canadian business magazines and newspapers.
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Minister Day Concludes Successful Meetings at World Economic Forum
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Foreign Affairs and Trade Canada
The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, today concluded a successful trip to Davos, Switzerland, where he participated in the annual World Economic Forum.
“It is important that Canada work with other world leaders to strengthen the global economy,” said Minister Day. “Canada remains strongly committed to encouraging increased trade and investment flows with other nations and finding new opportunities by working together in investment, trade, and science and technology partnerships.”
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Ambassador Wilson’s speech at the Canadian Club of Toronto
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Embassy of Canada, Washington DC
Ambassador Wilson delivered remarks at a luncheon hosted by the Canadian Club of Toronto on January 19, 2009. He discussed key aspects of the Canada-U.S. bilateral relationship on the eve of the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as the United States’ 44th President. Ambassador Wilson also explored the tremendous challenges facing the new Administration and opportunities for enhanced Canada-U.S. cooperation going forward.
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International News
Obama’s Canada visit to be brief: official
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Don Martin, National Post
The official Canadian visit by Barack Obama is looking more like a presidential pit stop, with the working assumption in the Prime Minister’s Office that the U.S. President won’t leave the vicinity of the Ottawa airport when he makes his first foreign trip two weeks from Thursday.
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Canada in step with U.S. on China’s currency
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Paul Vieira, National Post
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty appears to be in lockstep with the Obama administration in cranking up the rhetoric against China by suggesting Wednesday morning that next week’s meeting of the Group of Seven finance officials will deal with worries over the "inflexibility" of certain Asian currencies.
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Guantanamo detainees seeking to come live in Canada
Monday, February 02, 2009
Kate Hammer, Globe and Mail
With the pending shutdown of the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, six detainees have applied for resettlement in Canada, including three Uyghurs who have been cleared of all charges.
Their lawyers hope that a changed political landscape will help them, and a Toronto-based refugee organization that is sponsoring one of them says the step could earn Canada the favour of U.S. President Barack Obama.
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New patrol to monitor Quebec-U. S. border
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Phil Couvrette, National Post
A special border-patrol unit consisting of RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency agents will soon take shape in Quebec under a pilot project that could herald a new nationwide effort to beef up border security.
The patrol will monitor Quebec-U. S. crossings and combat criminals taking advantage of the boundary, said Jean-Pierre Fortin, vice-president of the Customs and Immigration Union.
The initiative comes from a Conservative party platform to enhance security by creating "a border patrol that can patrol the many unguarded roads and the border in between official entry points," Mr. Fortin said.
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Afghan guards will be hired to protect dam project
Friday, January 30, 2009
Mike Blanchfield, Edmonton Journal
A Canadian company is recruiting a private Afghan security team to help guard Canada’s "signature" aid project in Kandahar, the province’s governor said Thursday.
Canada will spend $50 million to refurbish the Dahla Dam in the northern part of Kandahar province. After the Canadian International Development Agency announced the project earlier last year, violence across Afghanistan -- especially in the south -- spiked to record levels, sparking concerns the dam would become a prime target of Taliban and al-Qaida insurgents.
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Business and Trade
Canada making headway in battle against Buy American plan: Day
Thursday, February 05, 2009
Virginia Galt, Globe and Mail
Canada has made “great headway” in its bid to win relief from the Buy American initiative in the United States, International Trade Minister Stockwell Day said Thursday.
"It’s not finished yet ...we are keeping on this full-court press, 24/7 to work with our American counterparts to see this through to what we hope will be a successful conclusion," Mr. Day said in a speech to the Toronto Board of Trade.
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Cdn ambassador to US issues blunt anti-protectionist letter to Senate leaders
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Canadian Press Newswire
Reports say Canada’s ambassador to the United States has bluntly warned American lawmakers their nation’s moral authority on global trade issues is being put at risk.
A letter to U.S. Senate leaders from Michael Wilson warns of that prospect should ’’Buy American’’ provisions in President Barack Obama’s economic rescue package become law.
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Obama sends diplomat to Davos to quell trade outrage
Monday, February 02, 2009
Kevin Carmichael and Heather Scoffield, Globe and Mail
Facing one of his first big diplomatic tests, U.S. President Barack Obama dispatched an official to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in an attempt to quell outrage from Canada and other countries over plans to make “buy American” a stipulation of the U.S.’s multibillion-dollar economic stimulus program.
Peter Allgeier, the acting U.S. trade representative, used the annual gathering of the world’s leading executives and policy makers to assure his country’s biggest trading partners that Mr. Obama understands concerns that the proposal could spark a trade war that would deepen the global recession.
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Canada seeks ’Buy American’ exemption
Sunday, February 01, 2009
Linda Nguyen, Ottawa Citizen
Canada might be allowed to sidestep the protectionist "Buy American" provision in the U.S. $819-billion economic stimulus plan, International Trade Minister Stockwell Day said yesterday.
The minister said he spoke with Peter Allgeier, acting U.S. trade representative, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and was told that an exemption for Canadian steel and iron is "one of a number options," that the administration of President Barack Obama is considering.
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Canada’s rejection of peanuts led to recall
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Joe Friesen, Globe and Mail
The first sign of trouble for Peanut Corp. of America, the company blamed for a salmonella outbreak that has killed eight people in the United States and led to a massive product recall, was a tainted shipment of chopped peanuts that arrived in Canada last spring.
A customer in Canada rejected the peanuts, an act that may have saved lives here, and prompted officials with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to turn their attention to sanitary conditions in the Blakely, Ga., peanut plant at the centre of the outbreak.
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Blitz d’Ottawa auprès de Washington
Mardi 02 février 2009
Joël-Denis Bellavance, La Presse
Le gouvernement Harper affirme qu’il met les bouchées doubles afin de convaincre le Congrès américain d’abandonner les velléités protectionnistes du plan de relance économique de 820 milliards de dollars US avant la visite officielle du nouveau président Barack Obama au pays le 19 février.
Le ministre du Commerce international, Stockwell Day, a affirmé lundi que le gouvernement accentue les pressions pour qu’une clause du plan de relance soit modifiée. Si cette clause dite Buy American demeure inchangée, elle risque de faire perdre des milliers d’emplois au Canada et provoquer une montée du protectionnisme sur la planète.
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Canadian News
Ottawa tries again to toughen product safety laws
Friday, January 30, 2009
Bruce Campion-Smith, Toronto Star
More than a year after Prime Minister Stephen Harper complained about Canada’s outdated consumer safety regulations, the government is taking another shot at toughening the laws.
The Canada Consumer Product Safety Act introduced yesterday would give Ottawa new power to enforce the recall of unsafe products and slap big fines on corporate offenders who produce them.
It’s an effort to overhaul laws that date back 40 years and leave the government relying on manufacturers to voluntarily recall unsafe products, federal officials say.
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Canuck helicopter team adds a vital eye in the sky
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Andrew Hanon, Edmonton Sun
Cpl. Christopher Lucas grows quiet, momentarily choked with emotion.
"I’d rather not talk about it," the 33-year-old Edmontonian replies when asked about his relative, who is among the 108 Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
"It’s personal and kinda tough."
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Ottawa using intervention to extinguish Muslim extremism
Monday, February 02, 2009
Stewart Bell, National Post
The government has been using "counter-radicalization techniques" to steer Canadian Muslims away from extremism, according to a secret intelligence report obtained by the National Post.
The document outlines a little-known, government-wide, counter-radicalization strategy that aims to prevent al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists such as the London transit bombers from emerging within Canada.
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Des centaines de douaniers canadiens sont déjà armés
Jeudi 05 février 2009
André Duchesne, La Presse
Le projet du gouvernement canadien d’armer ses quelque 4800 agents douaniers va bon train. Sept cents d’entre eux auraient déjà réussi leur entraînement. Il y a une ombre au tableau, cependant: il est difficile de recruter des instructeurs de tir qualifiés.
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Nickelback gets 5 Juno nods
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
The Canadian Press, Toronto Star
Nickelback is the leading nominee for this year’s Juno Awards.
The Alberta rockers earned five nods.
Montreal’s Sam Roberts was next with four nominations, while diva Céline Dion and Vancouver band Hedley each nabbed three.
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Students call space station with home-built radio
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Canadian Press, Globe and Mail
Four Toronto college students have accomplished a technological feat that their teachers are calling a first.
The Humber College seniors made contact with the International Space Station Monday with a radio system they designed and built themselves.
School officials say that, to their knowledge, that’s never been accomplished by students at the college level.
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Opinion/Editorial
1930 all over again
Friday, January 30, 2009
Thomas dAquino, National Post
Eighty years ago, the United States suffered its most devastating financial crisis of the 20th century. For many Americans, the preceding decade was a period of prosperity and excess. Real estate prices soared but turned downward after 1925, squeezing speculators and hard-working families alike. Then came the stock market crash of October, 1929, which triggered bank failures and a serious credit crunch. Overnight, the economy ground to a halt and the lines of the unemployed grew longer.
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Un Parlement enfin présentable
Vendredi 30 janvier 2009
Raymond Giroux, Le Soleil
Maintenant que les deux grands partis ont décidé de s’entendre pour qu’il n’y ait pas d’élections cette année, les députés sont passés à l’ouvrage en toute dignité.
Hier, ainsi, la période réservée aux interpellations a donné lieu à une série ininterrompue de questions sérieuses et de réponses, sinon complètes, au moins respectueuses.
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