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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 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: The Impacts of “Buy American”
The Connect2Canada Team
Economists Gary Hufbauer and Philip Levy examine the deleterious effects of “Buy American” in the U.S. and abroad, and describe how the situation can be ameliorated.
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Special Features
Minister Cannon condemns use of violence against protestors in Iran
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, made a statement condemning the use of violence against protestors in Iran.
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Ambassador Wilson's visit to Buffalo, NY
Monday, June 22, 2009
Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.
Ambassador Wilson was in Buffalo, New York on June 12, 2009 for a day of outreach in advance of the 100th anniversary of the Canada–U.S. Boundary Waters Treaty celebrated in Niagara Falls on June 13. During his visit to Buffalo, the Ambassador met with the local media and gave a speech at the Great Lakes Connecting Channels Conference hosted by SUNY Buffalo.
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Parliamentary Secretary Obhrai to Represent Canada at a Meeting in Washington
Monday, June 22, 2009
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that Canada will participate in a high-level meeting in Washington, D.C., on June 23, 2009, on the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.
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International News
Harper to push G8 peers for stimulus exit plan
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Brian Laghi and Kevin Carmichael, Globe and Mail
Canada will push for an orderly retreat from government economic rescue measures when major industrial countries meet at an Ontario resort next year to plot the recovery, according to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. The Prime Minister predicted in an article he wrote for an academic publication that the international economy will be heading for a rebound and that countries must develop a co-ordinated exit strategy from some of the programs established to combat the financial crisis.
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Afghanistan on its way to democracy ambassador
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Dan Lett, Winnepeg Free Press
Canada's outgoing ambassador to Afghanistan is leaving his post with full confidence that the troubled, war-torn country is on its way to becoming a high-functioning democracy.
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Friendlier China shows willingness to embrace Canada's new tone
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Campbell Clark, The Globe and Mail
China's Foreign Minister signalled that his country is ready to turn the page on a rocky relationship with the Conservative government, opening the door for Stephen Harper to rebuild ties in a fall visit. Yang Jiechi bustled out of an Ottawa speech flashing a thumbs-up to reporters and declaring that China wants to see “high-level” visits in both directions. That came after he told business leaders that Beijing wants to move on from recent strains in its relations with Canada.
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Israeli minister presses Canada to take tougher stand with Iran
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Campbell Clark, Globe and Mail
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman continued his push for Western nations to prepare to impose tougher sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program as he met in Ottawa with Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon.
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Canada unveils ‘adopt-a-village' project in Afghanistan
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Colin Freeze, Globe and Mail
With a dozen new solar-powered streetlights around its village square, the small mud hut village of Deh-e-Bagh hardly lights up like Broadway. But Canadian and Afghan officials are today shining a spotlight on their modest works in village, suggesting it could be the way forward for all Afghanistan
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À l'heure de la cybersécurité
Mardi 23 juin 2009
Radio-Canada
À l'heure où les réseaux numériques sont de plus en plus la cible de pirates et d'espions, le Pentagone a annoncé mardi qu'il se dote d'un commandement militaire dédié à la cybersécurité.
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West shuns 'Durban II' financial conference
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Steven Edwards, Canwest News Service
Canada is among Western countries whose leaders have spurned invitations to attend a United Nations “summit” opening today on how the world body can help solve the global financial crisis.
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Business and Trade
Clement vows to boost high-tech sector
Monday, June 22, 2009
David Akin, Financial Post
Industry Minister Tony Clement says copyright and privacy act reform will be at the top of his fall legislative agenda, two key areas he believes will help boost Canada's high-tech industry.
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Coping with American cap-and-trade systems
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Julius Melnitzer, National Post
It's apparent that the federal government is keeping a close eye on climate-change developments in the United States. It has already, for example, followed the U.S. lead by adopting new emissions standards for automobiles.
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Market showing signs of correction
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
David Pett, Financial Post
Canada's top benchmark exchange crashed below 10,000 on Monday, signalling the long-awaited market correction has all but arrived. As a result, investors are left wondering how long the sell-off will last and just how drastic it will be. While a retest of March lows is unlikely, strategists think the current lack of corporate earnings visibility could result in a pullback that lasts through the summer.
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Air Canada gets labour deals with all unions
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Ross Marowits, Toronto Star
Air Canada is on the runway to achieving labour peace after reaching a tentative deal with flight attendants to extend their contract by 21 months.
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'White-condos' likely headed north
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Kristine Owram, The Canadian Press
A new type of condo for the price-conscious, recession-weary consumer has popped up south of the border and some experts say the so-called “white box” could soon find a market in Canada too.
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Les Molson n'ont pas payé trop cher
Mardi 23 juin 2009
Vincent Brousseau-Pouliot, La Presse
Des experts ne sont pas surpris de la somme de 500 millions US déboursée pour l'achat du Canadien.
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Tim Hortons sets sights on Nunavut
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Paul Waldie, Globe and Mail
Whenever Iqaluit Mayor Elisapee Sheutiapik returns home from a trip to southern Canada, she brings back a gift for friends and family: a few dozen Timbits.
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Canadian News
Roméo LeBlanc s'éteint à 81 ans
Jeudi 25 juin 2009
Isabelle Rodrigue, La Presse
Roméo LeBlanc, le premier Acadien à avoir occupé le poste de gouverneur général du Canada, est décédé de la maladie d'alzheimer. Il était âgé de 81 ans.
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We're famous for more than ice, snow and hockey players
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Cheryl Chan, The Province
It's Canada's birthday. A toast is in order. So fill up the glass and raise it high with these quintessentially Canuck beverages.
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The art of asking Barack Obama to the Olympics
Monday, June 22, 2009
Miro Cernetig, Vancouver Sun
A lot of people assume it's a slam dunk Barack Obama, a well-known sports aficionado, will come to Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics, lending us some of his presidential aura. Don't be so sure.
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Canada's population keeps growing
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Montreal Gazette
In the first three months of 2009, Canada's population grew at a rate not seen since the first quarter of 2001, according to Statistics Canada.
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Unmanned drone may soon patrol our border
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Chris Thompson, The Windsor Star
Another stretch of the Canada–U.S. border is now being patrolled by an unmanned Predator B drone, another step in Homeland Security's plan to have the planes eventually flying over the Detroit River and Lake St. Clair.
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Alberta will take hit from U.S. gas discoveries
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Dan Healing and Darcy Henton, Edmonton Journal
In the face of grim provincial drilling numbers and growing interest in shale gas development south of the border, Premier Ed Stelmach hinted Tuesday that the province will offer more royalty breaks to companies drilling for natural gas.
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McLachlin pronounces on judicial activism
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Kirk Makin, Globe and Mail
Beverley McLachlin marked her tenth year as Chief Justice of Canada by pronouncing the end of a volatile debate over judicial activism.
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'Kidney swap' a medical first for Canadian doctors
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Marina Jimenez, Globe and Mail
In a Canadian medical first, four people with severe kidney failure received new organs from living donors in simultaneous “kidney swap” operations in Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto.
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Opinion/Editorial
Give Air Canada credit: It's become a much better airline
Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Jeffery Simpson, The Globe and Mail
Times are tough in this recession for lots of industries, but times always seem to be tough for the airline business.
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Neda, l'immortelle
Mardi 23 juin 2009
Mario Roy, La Presse
D'un côté, un État placé sous la protection d'une divinité vengeresse et gouverné par des hommes pétris dans la culture religieuse, la plupart âgés, puissants et accrochés au pouvoir, sévères et impitoyables.
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