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Special Features
Prime Minister Stephen Harper to participate in the UN Summit on Climate Change in New York and the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh
Monday, September 21, 2009
Office of the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that he will visit New York City on September 22 and 24 to meet Mayor Michael Bloomberg, to participate in the United Nations Summit on Climate Change and to attend a leaders’ meeting of the Friends of Democratic Pakistan. The Prime Minister will also participate in the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh on September 24 and 25.
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PM joins world leaders in New York to discuss climate change
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Office of the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with world leaders in New York at the Summit on Climate Change organized by the United Nations Secretary-General. “Our government is committed to working toward a comprehensive and effective international agreement that puts the world on a clean energy path,” said the Prime Minister. “We need the commitment of both developed and developing nations on a framework that is fair and ambitious, yet realistic and responsible, in addressing the challenges of climate change.”
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Canada Appoints New Representative in Kandahar
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced the appointment of Ben Rowswell as the new Representative of Canada in Kandahar (RoCK), succeeding Ken Lewis, who had held the position since January 2009.
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International News
Canadian delegation leads walkout
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Campbell Clark, Globe and Mail
Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon led a Canadian walkout as Iran’s president began speaking to the United Nations Wednesday night, a boycott that was followed by diplomats from the United States and other countries. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad then launched into a tirade against the United States, Israel, and Jews. The government signalled earlier in the day that they planned the walkout to protest the Iranian leader’s past attacks on Israel and denial of the Holocaust, as well as his regime’s disregard for human rights.
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New U.S. envoy could be in Ottawa by next week
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Sheldon Alberts, National Post
David Jacobson is expected to be sworn in as the U.S. ambassador to Canada as early as Friday and could present his diplomatic credentials in Ottawa by next week. The nomination of Mr. Jacobson, a loyal political ally of President Barack Obama, received the unanimous consent of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday night. The 57-year-old Chicago lawyer was one of Mr. Obama’s top campaign fundraisers in the 2008 election, serving as deputy finance chair.
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Harper has key role in shaping G8’s future
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Kevin Carmichael, Globe and Mail
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is facing a decision that could fundamentally change the ordering of global affairs and determine Canada’s future role on the international stage. Away from the more pressing concern of nurturing a fragile economic recovery, governments in the Group of 20 nations, whose leaders reconvene in Pittsburgh this week for the third time in less than a year, are engaged in a debate about whether the G20 will remain the global economy’s steering committee once the financial crisis has finally passed.
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Le G20 en cinq questions
Jeudi 24 septembre 2009
Laura-Julie Perreault, La Presse
Le G20, qu’est-ce que ça donne au-delà de la jolie photo de famille des leaders politiques? Le club des 20 guérit-il vraiment les maux économiques et financiers de la planète? Survol des tenants et aboutissants alors que le sommet de Pittsburgh s’ouvre aujourd’hui.
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Brokaw hunts down Gander 9/11 story
Friday, September 18, 2009
CBC News
NBC newsman Tom Brokaw was in Gander on Thursday, investigating a story that’s now old news — the role residents of the Newfoundland town played during the Sept. 11 attacks. When air traffic was shut down on Sept. 11, 2001, dozens of planes landed in the town — so many that there were too few hotel rooms for the passengers. The people of Gander readily opened their doors.
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Canada, U.S. must invest in green technology: Wall
Monday, September 21, 2009
Anna Kyle, Regina Leader-Post
Canada and the United States, particularly coal-producing and consuming jurisdictions, need to invest in green technology in order to remain competitive, Premier Brad Wall told a U.S. congressional delegation visiting Regina. Wall said his government is prepared to work with what he calls a cap and cut system -- an initiative that sets a target capping carbon emissions and sets future agreed-upon cuts to those targets.
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Canada issues terrorism warning for travellers to India
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Canwest Nwes Service
Canada has joined a growing list of countries warning residents to be careful when travelling to India due to the potential for terror attacks. The Department of Foreign Affairs updated its travel report to India Tuesday, following Australia and Israel which issued similar warnings. “There is a high risk of terrorism throughout India,” the travel report reads. “Canadians should exercise a high degree of caution at all times.”
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Canadians’ help sought for a green desert oasis
Monday, September 21, 2009
Tyler Hamilton, Toronto Star
The first city in the world likely to emit zero carbon and generate zero waste is, ironically, likely going to be in a country that gets most of its revenues from the sale of oil and gas. Three years ago Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates, came up with a grand plan. The country is rolling in petrodollars, which make up more than two-thirds of its gross domestic product. So it decided it would commit $22 billion (U.S.) toward an ambitious effort to diversify the economy, by building a green city from scratch in the middle of the desert.
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Business and Trade
La renaissance de Pittsburgh: un exemple pour le G20
Jeudi 24 septembre 2009
Bloomberg
La métamorphose de Pittsburgh, qui est passé de symbole de délabrement urbain à centre de haute technologie et de services de santé, pourrait offrir certaines leçons aux ministres des finances du G20 qui se réunissent dans la ville à compter d’aujourd’hui. Mais les problèmes financiers persistants de Pittsburgh ont aussi de quoi les faire réfléchir.
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BMO gets green light to incorporate in China
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tara Perkins, Globe and Mail
China’s banking regulator has given Bank of Montreal (BMO-T53.860.981.85%) preliminary approval to incorporate in that country, a move that will allow the bank to do everything from accept deposits in local currency to sell investment products. BMO expects to receive final approval by the middle of next year, making it the first Canadian bank — and one of roughly 30 foreign banks — to incorporate in China.
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RBC lays down new pay rules for capital markets
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tara Perkins, Globe and Mail
The financial crisis is changing the way Bay Street paycheques are calculated, even as world leaders prepare to square off on the contentious issue of regulating bankers’ pay at the G20 summit this week. Royal Bank of Canada, the country’s largest financial institution, outlined major changes Tuesday to its compensation plans for roughly 3,000 employees in its capital markets business.
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Rogers Wireless ends system access charge
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Chris Sorensen, Toronto Star
The country’s biggest wireless company, Rogers Communications Inc., has finally decided to kill off its controversial $6.95 system access fee, but subscribers shouldn’t hold their breath waiting for a cheaper monthly bill. As of Oct. 5, plans offered to new Rogers Wireless subscribers will replace the fee with a new government regulatory recovery fee that ranges from $2.46 to $3.46 per month, depending on the province.
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Patent protection, the new mother of invention
Monday, September 21, 2009
Michael Trebilcock and Edward Iacobucci, Globe and Mail
After years of effort, a Toronto startup company called i4i invented an important piece of technology to dramatically enhance software programs, such as Microsoft Word. Recognizing its potential, i4i obtained a U.S. patent to protect, and hopefully prosper from, the invention.
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Google exec says Canada missing web’s potential
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Peter Nowak, CBC News
Canadian businesses are lagging behind their peers in other developed countries when it comes to advertising online, according to one of Google’s top executives. “It’s not as competitive a business market, which basically suggests that there’s not as many businesses online because they’re not competing for more share amongst each other or there are not enough businesses competing in certain areas,”; said Nikesh Arora, Google’s president of global sales operations and business development, during a visit to the company’s Toronto office on Wednesday.
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Canadian News
Obama’s popularity higher than ever in Canada: poll
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Bradley Bouzane, Canwest News Service
U.S. President Barack Obama is more popular among Canadians now than when he was first elected, according to a new poll that suggests this country’s opposition parties may have lost one of their campaign weapons against the governing Conservatives. A new poll provided exclusively to Canwest News Service suggests Canadians are no longer as worried about seeing Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government cozy up to the U.S. administration, said Greg Lyle of the Innovative Research Group.
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Doctors, pharmacists most trustworthy professionals: survey
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Bradley Bouzane, Windsor Star
More trust is put in doctors and pharmacists than any other profession, according to a new poll on honesty and ethics among Canadian professionals. The Nanos Research poll, released Tuesday, shows more than 77 per cent of respondents said the level of honesty and ethics among doctors was either very high or high. More than 72 per cent of respondents felt pharmacists fell into the same category.
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Birthrate, age of mothers on the rise in Canada
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Canwest News Service
The number of births in Canada appears to be increasing, with more than half of babies being born to mothers over 30, according to the latest data from Statistics Canada. According to the report, released Tuesday, Canadian women gave birth to 367,864 babies in Canada in 2007, up 13,247 or 3.7 per cent from 2006. Also, Statistics Canada said the number of babies born in 2007 was the highest since 1995 and the fifth consecutive annual increase.
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Une première femme nommée directrice générale
Mercredi 23 septembre 2009
Katia Gagnon, La Presse
Rachel Laperrière est devenue hier la première femme à occuper le poste de directrice générale de la Ville de Montréal. Elle est issue du milieu culturel, ce qui est également une première pour ce poste, traditionnellement occupé par des ingénieurs.
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Countdown to Trailer Park Boys movie
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Olive Moore, Globe and Mail
It ended, appropriately enough, with a huge party. A decade after Mike Clattenburg showed up hopefully at the Atlantic Film Festival with a rough black-and-white mockumentary about a few hapless losers in a trailer park, the swan song of the now famous characters opened this year’s festival in Halifax.
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Bollywood Bound
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Wall Street Journal
That millions of people have Bollywood dreams in India comes as little surprise. But Canada? This month, the Canadian Institute of Management and Technology in Mississauga, outside Toronto, launched the Bollywood Acting Diploma, a four-month course costing $9,000 and targeting students who want to break into the business.
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Low marks keeping Canadian boys out of university: study
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Joanne Laucius, Canwest News Service
For more than a decade, universities have been puzzling over where the boys are as the ratio of female to male students keeps climbing. About 56% of Canadian undergraduates in 2006 were women, according to the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada, a significant change from the early 1970s, when more than two-thirds of university graduates in their mid-20s were men.
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Opinion/Editorial
Oilsands debate fit for adult only
Monday, September 21, 2009
Lorrie Goldstein, London Free Press
Can we have an adult discussion about Alberta’s oilsands? That is, an informed and intelligent one. One not dominated by radical greens chaining themselves to oil production equipment in northern Alberta.
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A G20 summit of hawks or doves?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
David Olive, Toronto Star
Ahead of the summit of the 20 biggest economies this Thursday and Friday in Pittsburgh, it seems obvious to many that the casino culture on Wall Street must end. Yet, with about 7.3 million North Americans rendered jobless by a severe economic downturn triggered by aberrant risk-taking in the financial markets, bankers have taken no heed and are already resuming their dangerous practices.
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Air Canada est de retour
Vendredi 18 septembre 2009
André Pratte, La Presse
Il n’y a pas six mois que Calin Rovinescu est à la tête d’Air Canada que déjà on sent souffler un vent de renouveau. Pour la première fois depuis longtemps, on a l’impression que la haute direction de l’entreprise veut s’attaquer résolument au mécontentement de la clientèle, autrefois fidèle.
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