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July Science and Technology Update
The Connect2Canada Team
This month's Science and Technology Update features articles on dark matter research, the fastest supercomputer in Canada, and storm chasing in the Canadian Prairies. Read this issue and subscribe if you are not receiving it.
Share your Canada Day Photos
The Connect2Canada Team
Thank you for making our 4th annual Canada Day Across America a huge success! With nearly 200 parties across the U.S., and one in almost every state, this was our biggest year yet. Now we're asking you to share your Canada Day photos and stories with us.
Podcast: What is "Free Trade?"
The Connect2Canada Team
Professor Steve Suranovic at George Washington University explains the concept of free trade and explores its benefits. Listen.
Special Features
Minister Cannon Concludes Productive Meeting with North American Counterparts
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today concluded a productive meeting in Washington, D.C., with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mexico’s Secretary of Foreign Affairs Patricia Espinosa.
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Canada imposes a visa on Mexico
Monday, July 13, 2009
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Beginning 12:01 a.m. EDT on July 14, 2009, Mexican nationals will require a visa to travel to Canada, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney announced today. For the first 48 hours, Mexican citizens may apply for entry on arrival in Canada. After 11:59 p.m. EDT July 15, 2009, a visa will be required.
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Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan Conclude 12-Day Visit to Canada
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today paid tribute to Their Majesties the Emperor and Empress of Japan, departing Canada after a 12-day visit that included stops in Ottawa, Toronto, Victoria and Vancouver.
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International News
Climate change, U.S. protectionism to top 'Three Amigos' summit
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Sheldon Alberts, National Post
Mexican President Felipe Calderon is preparing to host Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U. S. President Barack Obama for a North American leaders' meeting in early August-- reviving a tradition of trilateral summits established during the latter years of the Bush administration.
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Harper, Pope discuss economy, values
Monday, July 13, 2009
Brian Laghi, Globe and Mail
Stephen Harper capped four days of high-level meetings Saturday with a visit to Pope Benedict XVI's Vatican Palace, where the two men discussed the pontiff's recent appeal for economic reforms based on strong moral values.
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Taliban in 'disarray,' top Canadian general says
Monday, July 13, 2009
Colin Perkel, Globe and Mail
Mounting casualties and unprecedented numbers of roadside bomb attacks are more a reflection of increased activity by the international coalition than a sign of a strengthening insurgency, Canada's top soldier in Afghanistan says.
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For the Emperor of Japan, a sentimental journey
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Rod Mickleburg, Globe and Mail
Emperor Akihito of Japan is the first of his exalted status to make an official journey to Canada. But for the elderly, gentle man who occupies the millenniums-old Chrysanthemum Throne, much of his 12-day visit has been a trip down memory lane.
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Endeavour : le sixième essai aura été le bon
Jeudi 16 juillet 2009
La Presse
La navette spatiale américaine Endeavour a finalement décollé, mercredi soir, à 18h03, du Centre spatial Kennedy de Cap Canaveral, en Floride, avec à son bord l'astronaute canadienne Julie Payette.
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Chrétien 'thrilled' by rare honour from Queen
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Jane Taber, Globe and Mail
He wowed her with a rousing solo rendition of O Canada. He made her laugh when he swore at the ceremony marking the patriation of the Canadian constitution. He happily allowed her to practice her excellent French over lunch.
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Queen confirms visit to Canada
Saturday, July 11, 2009
Globe and Mail
The Queen will visit Canada next year for the first time in five years, the Governor-General's office announced Sunday.
Although she won't attend next February's opening of Vancouver's Winter Olympics, her mid-year trip will be the second in the space of a year, after her son and heir Charles, Prince of Wales, visits Canada in November of this year.
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Business and Trade
U.S., Canadian officials complain about border policy
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Canadian Press
Officials from the United States and Canada say that American northern border policy, shaped by terrorism concerns and Mexican border issues, is negatively impacting Pacific Northwest communities.
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Tim Hortons débarque à New York
Mercredi 15 juillet 2009
André Simard, La Presse
La chaîne ontarienne de restauration rapide Tim Hortons (T.THI) , connue pour son café et ses beignes, vient d'ouvrir 12 restaurants à New York, dans une offensive d'expansion sur le marché américain.
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Baird aims to allay 'Buy Chinese' fears
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Carolynne Wheeler, Globe and Mail
Federal Transport Minister John Baird has sought to ease fears of protectionism in China's stimulus spending, saying there is plenty of opportunity for Canadian companies operating in the country.
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Inflation rate expected to drop below zero
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Julian Beltrame, The Record
Canada is expected to experience an economic oddity Friday that few thought possible before the world was turned upside down a year ago—annual inflation below zero.
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Pullback in commodity prices should keep Canadian dollar in check
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Alia McMullen, Financial Post
The Canadian dollar has fallen to more "reasonable levels" after it surged more than 9% in May, says Yanick Desnoyers, strategist at National Bank Financial.
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Housing sales bounce back nationwide
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Dave Ebner and Susan Krashinsky, Globe and Mail
Amid the month-to-month torrent of real estate statistics, economists pegged particular significance on new numbers because they reveal widespread strength at strong prices and showed mounting momentum over a three-month span, carried by what had been the weakest region—the West.
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Forestry may soon rebound
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Brett Bundale, New Brunswick Business Journal
Despite a sharp decline in lumber exports in the first quarter of this year, New Brunswick's forest products sector may soon rebound as fragile green shoots of economic recovery begin to sprout across North America.
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Canadian News
Les Canadiens préfèrent leur système de santé à celui des Américains
Vendredi 10 juillet 2009
Métro Montréal
Les Canadiens croient que leurs voisins américains, plongés dans un débat sur la refonte de leur système de santé, auraient tout intérêt à regarder ce qui se fait au nord de la frontière.
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Minister calls for overhaul of Canada’s refugee system
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Campbell Clark, Globe and Mail
Canada needs a refugee-claims system that will quickly turn away those who falsely claim persecution to take advantage of the country's generosity, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney says.
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Ottawa's Mounties back in the saddle
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Tim Naumetz, Toronto Star
The red-coated riders and their black steeds have returned to Parliament Hill. The iconic sight of an RCMP officer riding under the Peace Tower had been a summer attraction for three decades until the Mounties were ordered to dismount for safety reasons in 2007.
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Accelerate the corridor
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Globe and Mail
The strongest argument for high-speed rail between Edmonton and Calgary is not found in a dense study conducted for the Alberta government and made public last week, but in the fluid logic of a report for the Ontario government that emphasizes the link between future prosperity and investments in connectivity.
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Tiny Quebec town is sitting on a gold mine
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Rhéal Séguin, Globe and Mail
The streets of Malartic in northwestern Quebec may not be paved with gold, but the ground underneath them is.
Some time next year, Osisko Mining Corp. plans to start ripping up those streets and digging what will become Canada's biggest open-pit gold mine.
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Billy Talented? Canuck band puts own spin on 'Guitar Hero' with new album
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Nick Patch, Canadian Press
Despite their guitar heroics and fretboard wizardry, Billy Talent has always been excluded from the fraternity of bands featured in rhythm-rock video games.
So the Streetsville, Ont., rockers have taken matters into their own calloused hands with new album, "Billy Talent III," which is available Tuesday in two versions.
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No Olympic freebies for our politicians
Monday, July 13, 2009
Hamilton Spectator
The 2010 Winter Olympics may be Canada's Games, but if Canadian politicians want to experience the thrill of the events, they'll have to pay their own way.
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Opinion/Editorial
Mexico's stability at risk
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
The Economist, The Gazette
Over the past decade Mexico might not have enjoyed explosive economic growth, but it has achieved something equally valuable. As it has transited rather painlessly from seven decades of rule by the Institutional Revolutionary Party to a competitive democracy, the country has discovered a new stability.
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Où étiez-vous le 20 juillet 1969, à 22h56?
Jeudi 16 juillet 2009
André Pratte, La Presse
Dans une semaine, la NASA célébrera le 40e anniversaire des premiers pas de l'Homme sur la Lune. C'est le 20 juillet 1969, à 22h56, que Neil Armstrong posa le pied sur sol poussiéreux du satellite de la Terre, déclarant: «C'est un petit pas pour l'homme, mais un bond de géant pour l'humanité.»
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