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Au moyen du Jerusalem Old City Project, le professeur Michael Bell de l'université de Windsor, et ses collègues aux États-Unis et au Canada, développent un plan pour faciliter une paix durable dans le Moyen-Orient. Apprenez plus sur cette initiative et autres projets de recherche canadienne dans le dernier numéro de Canada Watch.
Dossiers
L'ambassadeur Wilson rencontre Neil Armstrong
Lundi 17 août 2009
Ambassade du Canada à Washington (D.C.)
L'ambassadeur Wilson a récemment rencontré Neil Armstrong, le premier homme à avoir posé le pied sur la Lune, lors d'un événement organisé pour célébrer le 40e anniversaire de l'alunissage d'Apollo 11.
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Le gouvernement du Canada condamne l’attentat de Kaboul
Samedi 15 août 2009
Affaires étrangères et Commerce international Canada
Le ministre des Affaires étrangères, l’honorable Lawrence Cannon, a émis aujourd’hui la déclaration suivante au sujet de l’attentat de ce matin à Kaboul.
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Le secrétaire parlementaire Obhrai conclut une importante tournée diplomatique à l'étranger
Lundi 17 août 2009
Affaires étrangères et Commerce international Canada
Le 9 août, le secrétaire parlementaire du ministre des Affaires étrangères, M. Deepak Obhrai, a conclu une tournée diplomatique fructueuse de six semaines sur trois continents.
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Actualités internationales
Afghan voter turnout low, officials say
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Kevin Frayer, Associated Press
Fear of Taliban attacks and voter apathy appear to have led to a low turnout in Afghanistan's presidential election, officials said as the country's polls closed.
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Canada protects deadly bio-lab
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Tom Blackwell, National Post
Canada plans to spend $30-million to build a high-level bio-security lab in Kyrgyzstan, the centrepiece of efforts to keep terrorists from getting their hands on anthrax, plague and other dangerous diseases stored in the former Soviet republic.
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Visas halting tide of Czech refugees, officials say
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Terry Pedwell, The Canadian Press
A new policy imposing visa requirements on people travelling from the Czech Republic has proven effective—so much so that Canadian officials say they are no longer speaking with Czech authorities about reversing the policy.
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Angela Merkel est la femme la plus puissante selon Forbes
Mercredi 19 août 2009
Agence France-Presse
La chancelière allemande Angela Merkel reste en 2009 la femme la plus puissante de la planète d'après le magazine Forbes, qui a publié mercredi un classement annuel dominé par le monde des affaires.
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Diplomacy sets stage for Pan Am evaluation panel
Thursday, August 20, 2009
John Kernaghan, The Hamilton Spectator
The 2015 Pan Am Games bid is humming towards dates with an evaluation committee in 10 days and has been bolstered by high-level diplomacy.
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Affaires et commerce
Most Canadians optimistic about economic recovery
Sunday, August 16, 2009
The Canadian Press
Canadians are feeling pretty good about where their economy is headed.
That's the conclusion drawn from a new Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey. The poll suggests six in 10 Canadians think the economy will bounce back at least twice as strongly as it will in the United States.
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Premier urges caution in 'Buy American' battle
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Joanna Smith, Toronto Star
Premier Dalton McGuinty encouraged cities and towns across the province to fight "Buy American" policies by reaching out to their neighbours south of the border instead of adopting protectionist measures of their own.
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Signs show recession may be over
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Times & Transcript
Evidence is mounting that the recession in Canada is over, making it one of the shortest although deepest since the Second World War.
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The star of Canada's recovery
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Jay Bryan, The Gazette
If you're looking for a sign that Canada's recession has ended, look no farther than the massive rebound in the housing market. It's more than a sign; it's a ashing neon billboard.
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Canada, U.S. take different approaches to meltdown
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Ray Turchansky, Edmonton Journal
For a Canadian, this year's annual shareholders meeting of Berkshire Hathaway in Omaha provided a foreshadowing of differences between Canada and the United States toward the recent financial crisis.
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Actualités canadiennes
Cross-border travel hits record low
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Jennifer MacMillan, The Globe and Mail
New passport rules are keeping Americans at home, with June numbers showing that travel to Canada from the United States fell to its lowest level since Statistics Canada started tracking cross-border trips in 1972.
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Canada's military power on display during PM's northern tour
Thursday, August 20, 2009
David Akin, Canwest News Service
Prime Minister Stephen Harper was at the centre Wednesday of a display of Canada's military capabilities in the North that seemed designed as much to awe his political opponents in Canada as to impress other Arctic powers who are contesting some of Canada's claims to undersea oil and gas resources.
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Harper gives seal of approval to hunt
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Bruce Campion-Smith, Toronto Star
Prime Minister Stephen Harper served up a stinging rebuke of Europe's ban on Canadian sealing products - and then dined on seal to show solidarity with Canada's beleaguered seal hunters.
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Scientists predict another year of major Arctic ice loss
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Randy Boswell,, Canwest News Service
Two scientific reports released this week are predicting another year of severe ice loss for the Arctic, though atmospheric patterns and cool temperatures in some regions—including Hudson Bay—are expected to prevent the world from witnessing the kind of record-smashing retreat seen in 2007.
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Montréal au 32e rang
Mercredi 19 août 2009
Radio-Canada
Montréal n'est pas la ville la plus chère au monde. Mais la métropole du Québec se situe tout de même au 32e rang des villes les plus chères au monde, juste après Toronto, selon une étude effectuée par la banque suisse UBS. Le palmarès d'UBS compte 73 villes d'importance.
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Opinions et éditoriaux
Canada showing U.S. how to do free trade
Monday, August 17, 2009
Calgary Herald
In the 1930s, a localized recession turned into what we now know as the Great Depression as a result of several government actions, not least of which was a particularly damaging piece of protectionist U.S. legislation, the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Act.
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Consider North a national issue
Thursday, August 20, 2009
The StarPhoenix
In the three and a half years since he took office, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been to the Arctic six times.
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NATO partners must do more
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Waterloo Region Record
In asking Canada to keep its soldiers fighting in Afghanistan after 2011, the new chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is pressuring the wrong country.
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