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All Politics is Local
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.
Canada’s most senior diplomats in the U.S. met with over 75 members of Congress and staff to drive home the message that the Buy American restrictions in the U.S. Recovery Act are costing jobs on both sides of the border. The Canadian delegation was accompanied by close to 30 American business leaders who support the message that by working together our two countries can kick-start the North American economy.
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PM reports to Canadians: 80% of Economic Action Plan initiatives already being implemented
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Office of the Prime Minister
The Government's unprecedented effort to accelerate the job-creating investments contained in Canada’s Economic Action Plan is paying dividends.
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Protectionism a barrier to recovery
Monday, June 08, 2009
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
The current global economic crisis, along with protectionist murmurs around the world, have raised fears of a new wave of trade protectionism. A report by DFAIT’s Office of the Chief Economist warns that the cost of such protectionist policies are greater now than they were even in the 1930s.
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Offset System A Step Towards A Carbon Market In Canada
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Environment Canada
Canada’s Environment Minister, Jim Prentice, today announced that the Government is taking an important step towards setting up a carbon market in Canada by moving forward with its Offset System for Greenhouse Gases.
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International News
Former U.S. envoy to Canada has been advising Jacobson; says he's 'thrilled'
Monday, June 08, 2009
Lee-Anne Goodman, Canadian Press
Canada's incoming ambassador is delighted about his new job, says the man who's been advising Chicago lawyer David Jacobson for months due to his own experience in the same position.
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Defence ministers meet to discuss Afghan strategy
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
The Globe and Mail
Defence ministers from the eight nations with troops fighting the Taliban in southern Afghanistan were meeting in the Netherlands on Wednesday to take stock of their progress.
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Colombia to ask MPs to ratify free trade
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Campbell Clark, Globe and Mail
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will press Canadian MPs today to ratify a free-trade deal with his country, but his target is Michael Ignatieff's Liberal Opposition, not the Harper government.
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Bob Rae denied entry into Sri Lanka
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Ranga Sirilal, Globe and Mail
Sri Lanka on Wednesday deported a Canadian legislator it views as sympathetic to the Tamil Tiger separatists, the latest foreign official it has sent out of the country at the end of a 25-year war.
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Russia plans to rebuild polar stations
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Vladimir Isachenkov, Globe and Mail
Russia will rebuild its Soviet-era network of polar stations and use its icebreaker fleet to help support its claim to the vast resources of the Arctic, the man who led a mission to plant a Russian flag on the Arctic seabed said today.
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Le projet de réforme de l'assurance maladie lancé au Congrès
Mardi 9 juin 2009
La Presse
Le projet de loi sur la réforme de l'assurance maladie, grande promesse de campagne du président Barack Obama, a été lancé mardi au Congrès, avec pour but de fournir une couverture santé aux 46 millions d'Américains qui en sont dépourvus.
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Business and Trade
Progress being made against U.S. protectionism: Wilson
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Bertrand Marmotte, Globe and Mail
Canada is making inroads in the United States in its efforts to counter the negative fallout from the Buy American purchasing rules, says Canadian ambassador to the U.S. Michael Wilson.
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Team Canada storms U.S. in war on 'Buy American'; U.S. business backs diplomats in fight against protectionism
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Mitch Potter, Toronto Star
A small army of Canadian diplomats fanned out across Washington today in a full-court press to "contain the contagion" of Buy America trade protectionism.
Stressing that the frantic round of lobbying was "to educate, not to threaten," Canada's Deputy Head of Mission Guy Saint-Jacques led Ottawa's effort to reach out to more than 75 members of Congress with a barrage of raw statistics showing how the benefits of free trade flow both ways.
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World Bank joins Buy American battle
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Steven Chase, Bertrand Marotte and Barrie McKenna, Globe and Mail
World Bank president Robert Zoellick warned that protectionist Buy American rules in U.S. stimulus spending threaten the global economy and backed Canada's urgent drive for free trade in state, provincial and city purchasing on both sides of the border.
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Economy on the mend, Flaherty says
Monday, June 08, 2009
Toronto Star
There are signs that Canada's economy has stabilized, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said today as a major international think-tank cited Canada among countries in the leading-edge of recovery.
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Jean Charest est optimiste
Mardi 9 juin 2009
Mathieu Perreault, La Presse
Le premier ministre Jean Charest s'est déclaré optimiste à propos de l'économie québécoise, hier à la Conférence de Montréal.
« Le Québec s'en sort mieux que partout ailleurs sur la planète, a dit M. Charest en point de presse. Nous avons eu deux mois de création d'emplois, c'est inattendu. »
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Canadians' incomes growing twice as fast as Americans': CIBC
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Eric Lam, Financial Post
Disposable income in Canada may be growing twice as fast as in the United States thanks to surging commodities prices but this will create a new divide between Alberta and Ontario that only productivity growth can fix, a CIBC ecnomist says.
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Canadian News
New Democrats make history in Nova Scotia
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Richard Foot, National Post
Nova Scotians overhauled their political landscape and made history on Tuesday night, electing the first NDP government east of Ontario.
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Young Montrealer wins Tony Award
Monday, June 08, 2009
Simon Houpt, Globe and Mail
David Alvarez, a 15-year-old classically trained ballet dancer from Montreal, won a Tony Award last night as the best actor in a musical for his role as the title character in Billy Elliot: The Musical, as the show took home 10 awards, including the evening's biggest honour, best musical. Mr. Alvarez shared the honour with two other teenagers with whom he alternates performances, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish.
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Ottawa pours $1M into U.S. border crossing
Monday, June 08, 2009
The Toronto Star
The federal government says it's planning to invest $1 million to improve the Canadian customs facility at the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie, Ont.
The bridge links Canada to the United States at Buffalo, N.Y.
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Minister says disputed border crossing might move
Saturday, June 06, 2009
The Canadian Press
The federal public safety minister says a border crossing in eastern Ontario might be shut permanently unless aboriginals accept a decision to arm border guards.
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Six acheteurs intéressés par le Canadien
Mercredi 10 juin 2009
André Simard, La Presse
Ce sont six groupes qui devraient déposer aujourd'hui une offre pour acquérir le Canadien et le Centre Bell, selon ce que rapporte mercredi le Journal de Montréal.
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Bachelorette's influence felt across Vancouver after episode filmed here
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Jeff Lee, Vancouver Sun
Less than 24 hours after the latest episode aired involving Vancouver's Bachelorette Jillian Harris, the city no longer seems the same.
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Opinion/Editorial
A Canadian strategy for Pakistan
Monday, June 08, 2009
David Gillies, The Toronto Star
By coining the term "AfPak," America and its NATO allies now believe that there is a single conflict against Islamic extremism straddling two countries, and that any plan to stabilize Afghanistan is unattainable without a more coherent Pakistan strategy. A U.S. military surge is to be balanced with more support for economic development, good governance and regional cooperation. This shift in approach raises a number of questions for debate in Canada and Europe.
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