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Celebrate Canada Day Across America
The Connect2Canada Team
Celebrate Canada's birthday with the Fourth Annual "Canada Day Across America"! We're featuring an interactive map of Canada Day gatherings throughout the U.S. on our special CDAA site. If you're hosting an event and would like to welcome fellow friends of Canada to join in the festivities, you can submit your event here. You can stay up to date on all things Canada Day on our site, Facebook page, and Twitter. Also new this year, we're calling on you to upload a video and share your views with fellow Canadians and friends of Canada across this country. To learn more, visit www.canadadayacrossamerica.com
Podcast: Cybersecurity and GhostNet
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
The Connect2Canada Team
Earlier this year, the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto's Munk Centre for International Studies uncovered a massive cyber-spying operation, dubbed GhostNet. We spoke with professor Ron Deibert about GhostNet and other important cybersecurity issues.
Listen.
Special Features
Canada and United States Committed to Amend Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton today announced, during the official celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the Canada–U.S. Boundary Waters Treaty, that Canada and the United States are committed to amending the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
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Canada and U.S. Reach Agreement to Create More Opportunities for Organic Producers
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Canada Food Inspection Agency
Canada and the United States have reached an agreement that will give organic producers access to more markets and make sure Canadian families can find more organic products in their grocery stores.
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Government of Canada Announces $1 Billion to Support Environmental Improvements for Pulp and Paper Industry
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Natural Resources Canada
Canadian Pulp and Paper producers who invest in improved energy efficiency and environmental performance may qualify for funding from a new, $1-billion Pulp and Paper Green Transformation Program, Minister of Natural Resources Lisa Raitt announced today.
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International News
Great Lakes pact open for overhaul
Monday, June 15, 2009
Paul Morse, Hamilton Spectator
Canada and the U.S. have agreed to renegotiate their pact on protecting the Great Lakes.
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Harper dénonce la « conduite inacceptable » du régime iranien
Mercredi 17 juin 2009
La Presse
Le premier ministre Stephen Harper a dénoncé mercredi la « conduite inacceptable » à plus d'un titre des autorités de Téhéran après l'élection présidentielle contestée par l'opposition iranienne.
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Canada painted as bogeyman in U.S. health care fight
Friday, June 12, 2009
Sheldon Alberts, National Post
With U.S. President Barack Obama in the midst of an intense political fight to pass comprehensive health-care legislation this year, U.S. opponents have returned to a familiar argument in efforts to derail the plan—warning Americans that all roads lead to a dysfunctional, Canadian-style, single-payer health system.
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Monetary policy, eh? U.S. Fed studies wording of Bank of Canada statements
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Drew Hasselback, National Post
Monetary policy, eh?
Apparently policy makers at the U.S. Federal Reserve are considering whether to insert a Canadian tone into the central bank's monetary policy statement, due June 24.
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Another U.S. law firm sets up shop in Toronto market
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Jim Middlemiss, Financial Post
Miller Canfield celebrated its move into Toronto last week by throwing a bash for 200 clients. The 370-lawyer firm has offices in China, Poland and the United States, but the bulk of lawyers practise in Michigan -- Ontario's top trading partner, accounting for 27.59% of Ontario exports. The firm employs 25 lawyers in Windsor and moved into Toronto by merging with the 10-lawyer firm Gaertner, Tobin.
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Secret Canadian mission maps volatile Afghan landscape
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Craig Pearson, National Post
Canada wrapped up a secret mission this week that provides the country's military a greater intelligence role in Afghanistan - literally from a Canadian perspective.
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Hundreds rally across Canada to protest Iran's election results
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Pat Hewitt, Canadian Press
Hundreds of Iranian-Canadians and their supporters turned out across the country Sunday to protest the Iranian election result that saw hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared the winner over his reformist rival Mir Hossein Mousavi.
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Business and Trade
Canada needs 'to win over' U.S. Congress
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Derrick Penner, Times Colonist
Canada needs to take a dual-track approach to resolving the current atmosphere of isolationism in American trade circles, a senior U.S. political analyst told a Vancouver business audience yesterday, and it isn't President Barrack Obama who needs convincing of the merits of a more open relationship.
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Premiers, governors promote Canada–U.S. energy corridor
Monday, June 15, 2009
Star Phoenix
Western premiers and U.S. governors on Sunday hailed their push to develop a cross-border Western Energy Corridor that will be the largest on the planet and one that develops both non-renewable and clean-energy options.
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Canadian executives expect growth this year
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Financial Post
A survey of those in charge of managing the money at companies across Canada shows economic conditions might not be so dire after all.
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Royal Bank 1st to see Q3 growth
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Alia McMullen, Financial Post
Royal Bank of Canada has become the first of the country's major banks to officially predict the recession will end in the third quarter.
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Chrysler to restart seven assembly plants
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Globe and Mail
Chrysler Group LLC says it will resume making vehicles at seven of its North American factories starting June 29.
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La TD met le cap sur l'Est américain
Mercredi 17 juin 2009
Stéphane Paquet, La Presse
Ceux qui sont allés à New York dernièrement ont vu le changement de décor dans le paysage bancaire: les affiches vertes de la Banque TD sont de plus en plus visibles. Et s'il n'en tient qu'au stratège en chef du groupe financier, le Québécois Bernard Dorval, c'est sur toute la côte Est qu'elles feront leur apparition.
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RIM launches its first salvo at the enemy
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Jaimie Sturgeon, Financial Post
Research In Motion Ltd. on Tuesday launched the first salvo of what promises to be many against rival mobile-handset makers in the coming months, releasing details on the Tour, a sleek combination of the successful Bold and Curve devices.
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Province to get 10% of Hibernia oil
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Carrie Tait, Financial Post
Danny Williams, Newfoundland and Labrador's Premier, and no stranger to squaring off against corporate titans over natural resources, has extracted a 10% stake in the southern extension of the Hibernia offshore oil project and record royalty rates, ending a two-year dispute with the oil companies over the expansion.
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Canadian News
Harper, Ignatieff agree to study EI reform
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Juliet O Neil, National Post
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff have worked out a deal to avoid a possible election until at least the fall by agreeing to appoint an expert panel to study employment insurance reforms.
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‘We have a plan’ to return to surplus: Flaherty
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Kevin Carmichael, Globe and Mail
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty insisted he has a viable plan to return the federal government to surplus, stressing that much of his recession-fighting spending is one-time and won't be renewed.
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Ordre national du Québec : 34 personnalités honorées
Mercredi 17 juin 2009
La Presse
Une trentaine de personnalités parmi les plus réputées du Québec ont été honorées de l'un des trois grades de l'Ordre national du Québec lors d'une cérémonie solennelle tenue mercredi après-midi à l'hôtel de l'Assemblée nationale.
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U.S. networks look north
Sunday, June 14, 2009
Eric Volmers, CanWest News Service
Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern are used to being questioned about some of the peculiar Canadianisms found in the scripts of their TV hit, Flashpoint.
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Federal money, mining will help shelter territory
Monday, June 15, 2009
Jason Unrau, Whitehorse Daily Star
Transfer payments from Ottawa and the development of new and operating mines in the territory should keep the Yukon's bubble economy from going flat this year, according to an economic forecast released by the territorial government last Thursday.
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Quebecers should buy Habs: Charest
Friday, June 12, 2009
Marianne White, National Post
The provincial government here said yesterday it wants to see Quebecers regain control of the Montreal Canadiens and offered a $100-million loan to any Quebec-based consortium interested in buying the hockey team.
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Beating Phelps earns Hayden star treatment
Monday, June 15, 2009
Terry Bell, CanWest News Service
Hayden beat the American superstar in a 100-metre freestyle race Sunday at the Santa Clara Grand Prix in California. When he arrived home Monday, there was a sizable pack of journalists on hand to talk to him.
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Opinion/Editorial
The politicians acted like adults, which means everyone wins
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Lawrence Martin, Globe and Mail
No election And everyone can declare victory. Even the Prime Minister, even the Opposition Leader, even the people. Everyone except those of us in the media who see politics as sport and relish in repeatedly reducing it to schoolyard scorekeeping.
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Le nationalisme d'ouverture
Jeudi 18 juin 2009
André Pratte, La Presse
On a beaucoup parlé au cours des derniers jours de l'intention de certains organisateurs de la Fête nationale d'exclure des artistes anglophones du spectacle prévu dans le quartier Rosemont. Le plus important, toutefois, c'est le tollé qu'a suscité cette intention.
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This year's Stanley Cup final marked a great game and good times for NHL
Monday, June 15, 2009
Tim Dahlberg, Canadian Press
Muhammad Ali was at Joe Louis Arena, perhaps waiting for a fight to break out. One did in Game 7 of the NHL championships, but not in the traditional hockey sense.
The two heavyweights on Friday night were the Pittsburgh Penguins and Detroit Red Wings and they played a Game 7 for the ages, one that was still in doubt into the final frenetic seconds.
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