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News from Connect2Canada
New Citizenship Rules
The Connect2Canada Team
A new law amending the Citizenship Act will come into effect on April 17, 2009. The new law will give Canadian citizenship to certain people who lost it and to others who will be recognized as citizens for the first time. It will also protect the value of citizenship by limiting citizenship by descent to one generation outside Canada. Find out more about the new law. Watch Waking Up Canadian on YouTube!
C2C Podcast: Implications of Canada's Arctic Policy
The Connect2Canada Team
What effects will Canada's new Arctic policy have on its energy relationship with the U.S.? The Canada West Foundation's Roger Gibbins offers his insights with us in this week's podcast.
Special Features
Will you wake up Canadian? Minister Kenney launches a video to raise awareness of new citizenship law
Friday, April 10, 2009
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney today launched a short video to raise awareness among people who may be affected by changes to Canadian citizenship law. The changes come into effect later this month and give Canadian citizenship to many who lost it or never had it due to outdated rules.
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Canada And U.S. Work Together To Cut Air Pollution From Shipping
Friday, April 10, 2009
Environment Canada
Canada's Transport Minister, John Baird, and the Honourable Jim Prentice, Minister of the Environment, today announced federal government support for a joint Canada–U.S. proposal to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to establish an Emission Control Area (ECA) in North American coastal waters.
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Minister Oda Participates in the Successful Haiti Donors' Conference
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Canadian International Development Agency
The Honourable Beverley J. Oda, Minister of International Cooperation, today participated in the Haiti Donors' Conference “Toward a New Cooperation Paradigm for Growth & Opportunity” that brought leaders from over 30 donor countries and multilateral organizations to Washington, D.C.
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International News
Mort de Natasha Richardson : Québec réagit aux critiques
Dimanche 12 avril 2009
Violaine Ballivy, La Presse
Québec s'inquiète des critiques soulevées dans les médias américains sur la qualité des soins de santé offerts dans la province depuis la mort de l'actrice Natasha Richardson après un accident à la station de ski Mont-Tremblant. Le ministre des Relations internationales, Pierre Arcand, a demandé au célèbre réseau de télévision CNN de corriger un reportage diffusé jeudi sur le sujet.
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NATO troop commander says battle in southern Afghanistan will be pivotal
Monday, April 13, 2009
Patrice Bergeron, Macleans
Afghanistan's future will be decided by the crucial battle for control of the southern part of the country where Canadian troops are located, a top NATO commander said Monday.
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Ottawa faces pressure to align with U.S. on green plans
Friday, April 10, 2009
Shawn McCarthy, Globe and Mail
Ottawa could be forced to drop its controversial intensity-based approach to reducing greenhouse gas emissions to avoid having to pay U.S. border duties, Environment Minister Jim Prentice says.
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Canadian helicopter monitoring latest hijacked ship
Monday, April 13, 2009
Jorge Barrera and Alison Bevege, National Post
A Canadian warship was again in the thick of the action Tuesday after Somali pirates launched a brazen, moonlit hijacking of a Greek-owned ship in the Gulf of Aden.
A helicopter dispatched from HMCS Winnipeg made contact with the MV Irene E.M. moments after it had been taken over by Somali pirates, a NATO spokesperson said.
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U.S. red tape forces gifted workers north
Monday, April 13, 2009
Iain Marlow, Toronto Star
Canada should, perhaps, praise the H-1B.
Among others, the American work visa has brought this country Sanjay Mavinkurve, a brilliant Google engineer born in India who helped create the foundation for Facebook while studying at Harvard—and owned Google stock before the company went public.
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PM to push free trade at Summit of Americas
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Joanna Smith, Toronto Star
Canada will push to advance free trade talks at the Summit of the Americas this weekend as it warns other countries against developing protectionist policies to cope with the economic crisis.
“We must not allow the impact of the crisis to reverse the hard-fought progress toward freer trade and investment,” Dimitri Soudas, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, told reporters yesterday.
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Business and Trade
Day cools rhetoric on U.S. meat labels
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Paul Vieira, National Post
Stockwell Day, the International Trade Minister, said on Thursday Canada is “reserving judgment” on potential trade action against Washington over a meat-labelling law that domestic livestock producers argue is a "significant" non-tariff barrier costing them hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Softwood deal holds, despite new U.S. levies
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Roberta Rampton and Allan Dowd, Ottawa Citizen
The U.S.–Canada softwood lumber agreement may be the trade deal that everyone loves to hate, but despite renewed complaints neither country seems eager to give up on the pact just yet.
In the first test of the 2006 deal, and the first concrete signal that the Obama administration will live up to a promise to get tough on trade enforcement, the U.S. government this week said it will tack a 10-per-cent duty on some imports of Canadian lumber, taking the federal government to task for a 2007 infraction.
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Clement tells auto union to make more concessions
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Shawn McCarthy and Greg Keenan, Globe and Mail
Canadian workers at the two crippled Detroit-based auto makers must agree to slash wages and benefits by as much as $19 an hour to prevent their employers from filing for bankruptcy protection, Industry Minister Tony Clement says.
In an interview Wednesday, Mr. Clement said Fiat SpA has committed to follow through with Canadian investment promised by Chrysler LLC, if the ailing car maker can slash its labour costs and can conclude a strategic alliance with the Italian car company.
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Trade versus security
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Rebecca Penty, Telegraph-Journal
Peter Nelson is taking his case for a more open border with Canada's southern neighbour right to the woman at the top—U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.
Nelson, the executive director of the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association, will be in Washington, D.C., from Sunday to next Tuesday for the Border Trade Alliance annual conference, where Napolitano will deliver the keynote address.
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Employment quality up as openings fall: report
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Alia McMullen, National Post
The Canadian economy has been losing jobs at the fastest pace since 1982, but the recession has not damaged the quality of jobs available, a CIBC World Markets report said Wednesday.
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Emploi : le Québec s'en tire mieux jusqu'ici
Samedi 11 avril 2009
Rudy Le Cours, La Presse
L'économie canadienne continue de sabrer des emplois, mais à un rythme moins brutal, tandis que quelques teintes de regain percent la grisaille.
La perte nette de 61 000 emplois d'un océan à l'autre, tous à temps plein de surcroît, a porté le taux de chômage de 7,7% à 8,0%, de février à mars, indiquait jeudi Statistique Canada. Ces mauvais chiffres font suite aux saignées de 129 000 et 82 600 jobs de janvier et février.
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Beyond the energy bear market
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Claudia Cattaneo, National Post
Eight months into what is rated by many as the most devastating downturn experienced in the Canadian oil and gas sector, signs of a recovery are emerging.
Oil prices have returned to the US$50 range, the energy group on the Toronto Stock Exchange has bounced more than 8% since the beginning of the year, bargain hunting is on the rise.
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Canadian News
Mounties, Transport Canada team up to boost airport security
Saturday, April 11, 2009
The Canadian Press, Globe and Mail
The Mounties and Transport Canada are teaming up to crack down on organized crime and other threats at Canadian airports, following stinging criticism from Canada's auditor-general.
Transport Canada and the RCMP announced Saturday they signed an information-sharing agreement to conduct expanded criminal background checks for workers with access to secure areas at Canada's airports.
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Canada's top spy to retire in June
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Colin Freeze and Josh Wingrove, Globe and Mail
Canada's top spymaster is retiring after five years at the helm of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service.
Government sources confirmed Tuesday night that Jim Judd, 61, who was appointed as an outsider to head CSIS in 2004, will retire from the Canadian public service in June.
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Canadian clubs become NHL's economic engine
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Dan Healing, Montreal Gazette
It is February in sunny Florida and the Tampa Bay Lightning—whose rookie phenom Steven Stamkos just became the second-youngest National Hockey League player to score a natural hat trick—are hosting the red-hot New Jersey Devils.
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Aéroports de Montréal — De grands projets en chantier
Samedi 11 avril 2009
Martine Letarte, Le Devoir
Quelque 300 millions de dollars. C'est l'investissement qui a été nécessaire pour la construction du tout nouveau secteur des départs de l'aéroport Pierre-Elliott-Trudeau vers les États-Unis, dont l'ouverture est prévue le 20 mai. Mais ce n'est pas tout. Aéroports de Montréal a bien d'autres projets en développement, comme la navette ferroviaire et l'harmonisation du réseau routier.
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Tiny Saskatchewan town turns carbon trap into cash
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Richard Brennan, Toronto Star
Carbon dioxide has breathed new life into this small southern Saskatchewan city.
The odourless, tasteless gas and major global warming ingredient is pumped in from a coal gasification plant in North Dakota to help push untapped oil reserves to the surface and extend the life of an old oil field by 25 years.
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Federal gov't ready to help flood-washed Manitoba 'any way that is needed'
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Steve Lambert, CFTK TV
Prime Minister Stephen Harper got a bird's-eye view Tuesday of the swamped roads and farmlands in southern Manitoba, and promised federal aid.
“The federal government stands ready to assist in any way that is needed… as the situation unfolds,” Harper told reporters in Winnipeg after touring the Red River Valley by helicopter, seeing water that stretched to the horizon.
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Quadriplegic conquers the Pole
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Kate Hammer, Globe and Mail
The most accessible parking spaces are often reserved for the disabled, but now so is one of the world's least accessible slices of real estate: the North Pole.
Over the weekend, David Shannon, a resident of Thunder Bay, became the first quadriplegic to reach the North Pole.
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Opinion/Editorial
Something about our April
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Alec Bruce, Times & Transcript
Things are looking up. The grey days are arching into blue. The cold nights are melting into mist. And, suddenly, I'm having a hard time maintaining the furrow in my brow.
It's not that I've forgotten the orgy of greed and avarice that's sent the global financial system to the precipice, or the trillions of dollars governments are printing just to keep their injured economies from collapsing altogether, or the renewed sabre-rattling in some of the world's most dangerous places.
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Canada must seize the advantage
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Roger Martin and Jim Milway, Ottawa Citizen
The current economic turmoil is certainly a cause for concern, but it also can be a time for opportunity and hope—if we are prepared to take bold action.
Despite public concerns about the current economic slowdown, Canadians have an opportunity to build our future prosperity by ensuring we keep a balanced perspective on short-term and long-term challenges.
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