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Dossiers
Renforcer la collaboration canado-américaine dans l'espace
Mercredi 9 septembre 2009
Agence spatiale canadienne
Aujourd'hui, Steve MacLean, président de l'Agence spatiale canadienne, et Charles Bolden, administrateur de la NASA, en présence de Michael Wilson, ambassadeur du Canada aux États-Unis, ont signé une entente-cadre générale sur la coopération dans l'espace, réaffirmant par le fait même près de 50 ans de collaboration entre ces deux pays dans l'utilisation et l'exploitation pacifiques de l'espace pour en faire profiter leur citoyens et l'humanité toute entière.
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Déclaration de l’ambassadeur du Canada en Afghanistan sur les élections afghanes
Mercredi 9 septembre 2009
Affaires étrangères et Commerce international Canada
L’ambassadeur du Canada en Afghanistan, M. William Crosbie, a fait aujourd’hui la déclaration suivante au sujet des récentes élections présidentielles afghanes :
« La Commission électorale indépendante a annoncé que 91,6 p. 100 des bulletins de vote avaient été dépouillés et qu’environ 600 bureaux de scrutin avaient été mis en quarantaine afin de permettre la tenue d’enquêtes plus poussées.
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40 ans de débats linguistiques racontés par les caricaturistes : Graham Fraser veut faire réfléchir et sourire
Mercredi 9 septembre 2009
Commissariat aux langues officielles
Le commissaire aux langues officielles, Graham Fraser, inaugure aujourd’hui à Ottawa une exposition retraçant les 40 ans de la Loi sur les langues officielles, vus par la caricature politique. « Les caricatures sont une façon de revivre les débats souvent passionnés qui ont balisé le cheminement du bilinguisme canadien et de souligner cet important anniversaire. En les présentant au public, j’espère donner aux gens une occasion de réfléchir, mais aussi de sourire, » dit le commissaire.
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Actualités internationales
Mr. Doer goes to Washington
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Patrick White, The Globe and Mail
He can barely sip his coffee without someone thrusting a palm toward his tanned face.
“I just want to congratulate you,” says one well wisher.
“Thank you,” he replies, strolling past a Tim Hortons inside Winnipeg's MTS Centre, the city's downtown entertainment complex. More fans line up for a word.
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Wait continues for U.S. ambassador to Canada
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Jennifer Campbell, The Ottawa Citizen
While Canada waits for the Obama administration’s pick for ambassador to arrive, U.S. ambassadors to Benin, Swaziland, the Solomon Islands and Suriname, are working their respective posts.
Ditto for U.S. ambassadors to Mexico, as well as those for other G8 nations including France, Germany, Britain and Japan.
Meanwhile, officials in Canada and the U.S. are preparing for Stephen Harper’s visit to Washington — the second leaders’ meeting without an ambassador in place.
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Canadian teams scramble as U.S. bans NHL charter flights
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Don Martin, Canwest News Service
Canada's six NHL teams are scrambling to find alternative travel arrangements south of the border after the U.S. Department of Transportation banned Air Canada's charter fleet from flying between U.S. cities.
In a furious exchange with the Obama administration over the mid-August ruling, Canada has launched its own investigation and will soon close its skies to U.S. sports team charters in retaliation, warns Transport Minister John Baird.
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Michaëlle Jean de retour d'Afghanistan
Jeudi 10 septembre 2009
Bill Graveland, La Presse
La gouverneure générale, Michaëlle Jean, a mis un terme, hier, à une visite éclair - et secrète - de deux jours en Afghanistan, où elle a livré un message de soutien aux soldats canadiens, les encourageant à poursuivre leur travail pour améliorer les conditions de vie de la population afghane.
À titre de commandante en chef des Forces armées canadiennes, Mme Jean était symboliquement vêtue de l'uniforme officiel des soldats canadiens. Pour des raisons de sécurité, sa visite devait demeurer secrète. Elle ne pouvait être rendue publique qu'au moment de son départ de l'espace aérien afghan, une fois en route vers le Canada.
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Canadian made the call that left Afghans in limbo
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Sonia Verma, The Globe and Mail
The moment Grant Kippen realized the extent of fraud in Afghanistan's presidential election came when he reached his hand into an unusually heavy ballot box in Kandahar province last week.
The Ottawa native, who currently chairs Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission, had expected to find 600 ballots, the maximum number of votes allowed in a single box.
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New border checks weeding out U.S. criminals
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Tom Godfrey, Toronto Sun
Hundreds of U.S. criminals and lawbreakers are being banned from Canada now that criminal-record checks are the norm at Windsor-Detroit border crossings, immigration officials say.
The number of applications for Rehabilitation and Temporary Resident permits are up 38% over last year, according to an immigration program manager at the Canadian consulate in Detroit. There were 298 applications last year.
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Fowler is home—but Canada's mission isn't over
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Colin Freeze, The Globe and Mail
Canada wants to bring the al-Qaeda militants accused of kidnapping Robert Fowler and Louis Guay out of Africa and into Canadian courts.
The test case would showcase the long arm of Canada's Anti-Terrorism Act.
RCMP officers were among dozens of federal agents sent to Africa last spring in hopes of facilitating a rescue of the two Canadian hostages, and still hope to lay charges over the abduction of the Canadian diplomat and his aide.
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A look at the aftermath, memories and slow rebirth at New York's Ground Zero
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Marie-Joelle Parent, The Kingston Whig-Standard
They all had thoughts of leaving New York, but everyone decided to stay.
Today, the emotion is still palpable for the Canadians who lived near the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. These are people who witnessed the horror and saw death up close. Eight years later, the spectre of terrorism seems diminished, but the city is still in the process of rebuilding itself and will never quite be the same.
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Affaires et commerce
Buy America laws will drag down Canadian recovery, CIBC report says
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Julian Beltrame, The Daily Gleaner
Buy America restrictions in the massive U.S. stimulus package could be sufficiently punitive to keep Canada's economy from a more robust recovery next year, a new economic outlook says.
The CIBC report argues that Canada will largely miss out on the benefits of the U.S. recovery next year because most of the activity is being generated by government stimulus.
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Canada adds jobs while U.S. weakens
Saturday, September 05, 2009
Kevin Carmichael, The Globe and Mail
Canada appears to be breaking free from the downward pull of the U.S. recession, surprising many economists by creating jobs in August even as the American unemployment rate jumped to the highest since 1983. Private employers in Canada, led by retailers, financial firms and real estate agencies, hired more people than they fired for the first time since September, 2008, resulting in a net increase of 27,100 positions in the month, compared with a net decrease of 44,500 in July. Canada's unemployment rate rose a 10th of a percentage point to 8.7 per cent—still the highest since January, 1998—as the number of people looking for work increased faster than the number of new positions, Statistics Canada reported yesterday.
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Crisis pushes U.S. to 2nd in global competitiveness
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
The Canadian Press
Canada has again won the top rating in the world for the soundness of its banking sector, a fundamental strength many credit for the country's ability to escape the worst of the global recession.
The World Economic Forum rankings released Tuesday places Canada's banks as the soundest in the world for the second straight year, followed by New Zealand and Australia
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Bank of Canada holds rates, sees quicker recovery
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Paul Vieira, Financial Post
The Bank of Canada indicated Thursday that it has become more confident about the economic recovery in this country and abroad, and added that growth in Canada in the second half of this year could exceed previous expectations.
However, the central bank warned "persistent strength" in the Canadian dollar remained a risk to growth, and it retained "considerable flexibility" through monetary policy to deal with a high-flying currency if necessary.
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Is the economy ready to start creating jobs again? Economists say time is near
Friday, September 04, 2009
Canadian Press
Canadian workers could be in for the most encouraging news in months Friday, just in time for Labour Day, a return to job creation coinciding with the first positive economic growth in almost a year.
Jobs is often called a lagging indicator, so the consensus is that Statistics Canada will report the country shed another 15,000 jobs last month.
But at least one economist, CIBC chief economist Avery Shenfeld, is predicting just the opposite, saying up to 15,000 jobs may have been created during the month.
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Canadian home construction surges
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Globe and Mail
Canada's housing and construction industry continues to bounce back sharply.
Housing starts across the country rose more than 12 per cent in August, hitting a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 150,400, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said Wednesday. That level was up from the annual rate of 134,200 in July, the agency said.
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Lumber prices to recover in 2010: TD
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
The Canadian Press
Lumber prices have begun to turn the corner and consumption should pick up next year as the housing market in both the U.S. and Canada continues to improve, a report from TD Economics says.
However, the bank warns the "sustained recovery" won't mean an end to production cuts at mills across Canada in the near term.
In a report released Tuesday, TD says lumber prices are expected to rise gradually next year, but not return to their long-term average of about $400 US per thousand board feet until 2011.
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Le Canada continuera à aider l'industrie aéronautique
Jeudi 10 septembre 2009
Marie Tison, La Presse
Le gouvernement canadien étudie minutieusement la décision de l'Organisation mondiale du commerce (OMC) sur l'aide gouvernementale versée à Airbus, mais il entend continuer à aider financièrement l'industrie aéronautique canadienne.
« Nous continuons à croire que nous respectons les règles et les traités internationaux, a déclaré le ministre fédéral de l'Industrie, Tony Clement, hier. Nous avons une relation très positive avec l'industrie aérospatiale et cela va continuer. »
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Actualités canadiennes
PM's playing stuns crowd
Friday, September 04, 2009
Grant Lafleche, The London Free Press
The most surprising moment came when the interview was finished.
After the last question was answered and the room was being cleared, Prime Minister Stephen Harper quietly sat down at the dusty old upright piano pushed into a corner of the theatre.
At first, it sounded like he was just noodling on the keys, not playing anything specific. Just something bluesy. But it was enough to stop everyone in their tracks—the press and government personnel alike.
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Swine flu models preparing Canada for pandemic
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Meagan Fitzpatrick, Canwest News Service
The hottest, most relevant, models in Canada these days are not necessarily the slim, leggy ladies that strut down the runways and adorn the pages of fashion magazines. The most important models that Canadians should know about are the mathematical ones being used to prepare the country for a more severe round of the swine flu this autumn and winter.
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Airline passengers can keep their shoes on at security
Monday, September 07, 2009
Dean Beeby, Canadian Press
Good news for harried travellers who resent having to remove their shoes at airport-security checkpoints: now you can just say no.
Canada's airport security agency has issued a bulletin to front-line officers instructing them they cannot require domestic or international passengers to doff footwear before walking through metal detectors.
''Never suggest, ask or demand that passengers remove footwear prior to entering the WTMD (walk-through metal detector),'' says the one-page directive, issued in April.
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Le Dalai Lama rencontrera des étudiants à Montréal
Dimanche 6 septembre 2009
La Presse Canadienne
En visite éclair à Montréal, le 3 octobre prochain, le Dalai Lama aura un horaire très chargé.
Le chef spirituel tibétain donnera entre autres une conférence publique au Centre Bell devant des milliers de personnes. Elle portera sur les valeurs qu'il faut promouvoir pour améliorer le monde. Auparavant, le Dalai Lama aura rencontré un groupe de 500 étudiants des facultés d'éducation des plus grandes universités du Québec.
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Commish all for Canada landing second LPGA event
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Todd Saelhof, Edmonton Sun
The question was raised yesterday to LPGA acting commissioner Marty Evans about whether the tour is considering a second event north of the border to complement the CN Canadian Women's Open.
Her answer?
All aboard—thanks to the success of the Canadian-hosted event in Calgary.
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Canadian films shake up genre conventions
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
James Adams, Globe and Mail
Canadian films are hard to find in the commercial theatres of the nation. Last year, in fact, they accounted for less than 2 per cent of total domestic box-office.
But this doesn't mean there aren't any out there.
Steve Gravestock knows this perhaps better than anyone else. As chief wrangler for Canadian programming at the Toronto International Film Festival, he and his two-member selection committee—CBC Radio critic Jesse Wente and Montreal film writer Matthew Hays—screened 200 feature-length movies and documentaries seeking berths this year from which they culled the 27 productions that are to be screened from tomorrow through Sept. 19.
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Scouts, Guides have come a long way in the last 100 years
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Shannon Proudfoot, Canwest News Service
A new season of Scouts and Girl Guides is kicking off, and both century-old organizations are reinventing themselves in an effort to buoy flagging memberships and show they're relevant to a generation more worried about cyberbullying than charred marshmallows.
The Girl Guides of Canada has introduced a body-image badge and launched an online film festival, while Scouts Canada is discarding its iconic tan uniforms and teaching disaster preparedness for H1N1 and the hurricane season.
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2010 Olympic Games set to show some pride
Monday, September 07, 2009
Jane Armstrong, The Globe and Mail
After his gold-medal swim in the 1992 Summer Games, Canadian swimmer Mark Tewksbury was in the mood to celebrate. He went to a Barcelona gay bar and stood outside on the sidewalk.
"I had always promised myself that as soon as I was done, I'd start to live my life, so I was ready," Mr. Tewksbury said in a recent interview.
Not ready enough as it turned out. Despite an aching curiosity, he didn't go inside the bar. "I was, sort of, too afraid to go in, fearing that reporters were sort of hovering."
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Opinions et éditoriaux
Canada's man in Washington brings expertise to water file
Wednesday, September 09, 2009
Michael Byers, Toronto Star
Of the many challenges Gary Doer faces as Canada's ambassador to the United States, none will engage his interest more than protecting our transboundary rivers and lakes.
The 1909 Boundary Waters Treaty prohibits diversions that have not been approved by the governments of both Canada and the United States, as well as pollution "on either side to the injury of health or property on the other."
Today, North Dakota is violating those provisions and placing the entire treaty at risk.
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In defence of the oilsands
Thursday, September 10, 2009
David Collyer, The Windsor Star
I read with interest the recent article—Activists assail tar sands, Aug. 24—about environmental activist symposiums in Windsor, Sarnia and Detroit that advocate for a halt to development in Canada's oilsands. We encourage all Canadians to engage in a balanced and objective conversation on the oilsands, exploring benefits, concerns and solutions. (www.canadasoilsands.ca)
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Celebrating labour
Saturday, September 05, 2009
The Record
Labour Day is always, as it should be, a time to celebrate and remember the achievements of workers. Work is the creation of a product or the provision of a service that other people want or need. And it is what keeps our community and our nation going.
No one should be surprised that Labour Day this year is a bit different from other years. Canadians have experienced a difficult year economically as the recession that started in the United States crossed the border and struck the Canadian economy.
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