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Canadian Architect Awarded U.N. Habitat Scroll of Honor
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Cornelia Hahn-Obelander accepted the U.N. Habitat 2009 Scroll of Honor award on behalf of her late husband Dr. Peter Oberlander for his lifetime achievements. Dr. Oberlander, a Canadian architect, was one of the founding fathers of the U.N.-HABITAT agency, the founder of the School of Community and Regional Planning as well as the Centre for Human Settlements at the University of British Columbia. Monday, October 5, 2009 marked the launch of the U.N. World Habitat Day at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. For more information on U.N. Habitat and the Scroll of Honor please visit: http://www.unhabitat.org/categories.asp?catid=588
Special Features
Minister Cannon Meets With New U.S. Ambassador to Canada
Monday, October 05, 2009
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today met with David Jacobson, the new U.S. ambassador to Canada, in Ottawa.
“I had the opportunity to welcome Ambassador Jacobson to Ottawa,” said Minister Cannon. “We had a productive exchange on the importance of the Canada–U.S. relationship and our respective priorities for the coming year.
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Canada Requests WTO Panel on U.S. Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labelling
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
The Government of Canada is standing up for Canadian producers by launching a World Trade Organization dispute settlement process over U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL). The Honourable Stockwell Day, Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Asia-Pacific Gateway, and the Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the Canadian Wheat Board, announced Canada’s request for a WTO panel today.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper welcomes royal visit to Canada
Saturday, October 03, 2009
Office of the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall will visit 12 cities and communities in four provinces across Canada from November 2 to November 12, 2009.
“The visit by Their Royal Highnesses is a great honour for Canadians,” said the Prime Minister. “It will allow all of us, particularly young people, an opportunity to learn more about the heritage and traditions of which we are all proud.”
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International News
Canada's plans in Afghanistan will influence U.S.: Adviser
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Ian MacLeod, Ottawa Citizen
Canada's planned 2011 military pullout from the Afghan war, which enters its ninth year Thursday, will significantly influence the debate among the United States and allies about whether to continue a mission that is currently being lost, says a U.S. presidential adviser.
"What Canada does in Afghanistan will be wholly and significantly important in the debate that takes place… much more, I think, than any other country. Americans will be looking to see what you do," Bruce Riedel, who led a recent review of U.S. policy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, told a gathering of the Ottawa Roundtable on Security and Intelligence at the University of Ottawa.
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Canadian universities advance in global ranking
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Elizabeth Church, Globe and Mail
Canadian universities continue to make gains in a widely watched ranking of higher education, but the principal of McGill University, the country's top finisher, says that position is “precarious” without further government investment.
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A U.S. envoy with ties to the top
Friday, October 02, 2009
Sonia Verma, Globe and Mail
David Jacobson's dream job got off to a rough start.
When the newly appointed U.S. ambassador arrived in Ottawa earlier this week, the airline lost his luggage, then he came down with a terrible cold.
Most troubling, however, were the headlines, some of which suggested Canada and the United States were on the verge of resolving a simmering dispute over Buy American provisions in Washington's federal stimulus package.
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Guy Laliberté s'adapte peu à peu
Mardi 06 octobre 2009
Tristan Péloquin, La Presse
Terrifié à l'idée de gaffer en accrochant un ordinateur ou une pièce d'équipement cruciale de la Station spatiale internationale, Guy Laliberté se dit heureux de ne pas avoir trop de boulot... du moins pour le moment.
Le touriste spatial canadien, arrivé vendredi matin dans la Station, dit «croquer dans chaque instant» de son expérience. « Je n'ai pas le temps de décanter tout ça. Il y a des moments magiques. Tout arrive en même temps. J'ai le sourire accroché jusqu'aux oreilles en permanence », a-t-il dit, lors d'une conférence de presse retransmise par l'Agence spatiale canadienne, à Longueuil.
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Canada ranks fourth in quality of life
Monday, October 05, 2009
Globe and Mail
Norway enjoys the world's highest quality of life, while Niger suffers the lowest, a United Nations agency said today, as it released a ranking that highlights the wide disparities in well-being between rich and poor countries.
Canada was listed fourth.
The annual Human Development Index, unveiled in Bangkok by the UN Development Program, takes into account life expectancy, literacy, school enrolment and per capita gross domestic product in 182 countries.
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Canada joins in effort to end Honduras crisis
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Mike De Souza, Canwest News Service
The Harper government is dismissing criticism that it has been timid in its response to the ousting of Manuel Zelaya as president of Honduras, and it hopes a new round of negotiations will lead to a peaceful resolution to the ongoing standoff in the Central American country.
Zelaya has been staying at the Brazilian embassy after he was forced out of office on June 28 by Honduran soldiers, and replaced with Roberto Micheletti.
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National women's hockey team prepares to take on arch-rival U.S.
Friday, October 02, 2009
Cleve Dheensaw, Vancouver Sun
Canada and the U.S. are practically guaranteed to win medals for women’s ice hockey in the Winter Olympics — the only question every four years is who gets the gold and who the silver.
On Monday, the two sides will begin warming up for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Games with the first of six exhibition games, starting at 7 p.m. at Save-on-Foods Memorial Centre.
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Canadian shares Nobel in physics
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
The Canadian Press
Willard Boyle is reminded all the time about the work he did 40 years ago that led to him sharing the 2009 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday.
“When I go around these days and see everybody using our little digital cameras everywhere, although they don’t use exactly our CCD, it started it all,” Mr. Boyle said after learning he is sharing the prestigious award with Americans George E. Smith and Charles K. Kao.
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Business and Trade
Loonie soars to year-high
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Paul Vieira, Financial Post
The Canadian dollar roared past the 94 U.S. cent mark in trading Tuesday, rising by more than a penny and hitting a one-year high, on the back of higher commodity prices, a weak U.S. dollar and a surprise rate hike from Australia's central bank.
The dollar reached a high of 94.66 U.S. cents, and was trading in that range at around 11:30 am ET—up from Monday's close of 93.45 U.S. cents. The previous high was set on Oct. 1 of last year.
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Feds appeal to WTO over U.S. meat labels
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Paul Vieira, Financial Post
Canada fired yesterday its latest shot to push the United States to repeal a controversial meat labelling law by formally asking the World Trade Organization to issue its own judgment over whether the legislation passes muster.
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Canada, India near new era of trade
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Campbell Clark, Globe and Mail
India and Canada are moving to jolt stagnant trade ties, concluding a series of trade-related deals, including opening nuclear commerce and starting the first phase toward a free-trade agreement.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit Mumbai and Delhi between Nov. 15 and 18 and meet with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, sources said, a visit that is intended as a turning point.
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Canada to have three carriers that will offer Apple's iPhone
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Luann Lasalle, The Canadian Press
BCE Inc.'s Bell Mobility (TSX:BCE) and Telus Corp. (TSX:T) will begin offering two models of the Apple iPhone in November, giving Canadians three carriers to choose from and putting added pressure on rival Rogers Wireless (TSX:RCI.B), the two companies announced Tuesday.
Rogers has been exclusively offering the iPhone touchscreen mobile phone since July 2008 due to its advanced wireless network.
It remains to be seen what will happen to Canadian prices for iPhones and related wireless services now that Rogers has lost its exclusivity.
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Septembre record sur le marché montréalais
Jeudi 08 octobre 2009
Hugo Fontaine, La Presse
Il s'est dit 3140 fois « marché conclu! » le mois dernier. Si bien que les acheteurs et vendeurs de maisons du Grand Montréal ont réalisé un nombre record de transactions pour un mois de septembre.
Le nombre de ventes totales dans la région métropolitaine est en hausse de 5% par rapport à septembre 2008, qui était déjà le meilleur mois de septembre depuis que la Chambre immobilière du Grand Montréal (CIGM) accumule les données, dans les années 80.
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Jim Flaherty honoré par un magazine européen
Mardi 06 octobre 2009
La Presse
Jim Flaherty a été nommé mardi ministre des Finances de l'année par un influent magazine économique européen, Euromoney, qui a estimé que M. Flaherty avait agi rapidement pour faire face à la récession.
Pour le premier ministre Stephen Harper, cet honneur est la preuve que son gouvernement fait du bon travail contre la crise économique.
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The Asper dream ends, the selloff begins
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Grant Robertson and Andrew Willis, The Globe and Mail
Canada's largest media empire has taken its first step toward a historic breakup, as debt-laden CanWest Global Communications Corp. sought court protection from creditors to shelter some of its most crucial assets.
It was a move the company's chief executive officer, Leonard Asper, tried desperately to avoid over the past year, agonizing in private that the business founded by his late father, Izzy Asper, 35 years ago would be forever tainted by the stigma of a filing aimed at staving off bankruptcy.
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Canadian News
Canada to delay flu vaccine rollout
Thursday, October 08, 2009
Caroline Alphonso, Globe and Mail
The pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in Canada is not as severe as expected nor is it spreading quickly, the country's top public health official has determined as he put the brakes on an early rollout of the vaccine.
Canadians will be able to get the swine flu vaccination in early November, which will allow Health Canada to review more clinical-trial data and follow the regulatory process it set out for approving the pandemic vaccine.
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Canadian researchers make breast cancer breakthrough
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
The Canadian Press
In a world first, Canadian scientists have decoded all three billion letters of DNA in a breast cancer tumour and identified the mutations that caused the cancer to spread.
The landmark study by researchers at the B.C. Cancer Agency is a first step towards unlocking the secrets of how cancer begins and moves to other parts of the body.
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Quebec to join lawsuit against tobacco firms
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Rheal Seguin, Globe and Mail
Several provinces are planning to work together against tobacco companies to recover health-care costs related to smoking, says Quebec's Health and Social Services Minister Yves Bolduc.
Quebec confirmed yesterday it is joining British Columbia, New Brunswick and Ontario in filing a multibillion-dollar lawsuit against tobacco manufacturers.
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Monday marks 25th anniversary of first space flight by Canadian
Sunday, October 04, 2009
The Lethbridge Herald
Exactly 25 years after Canada's first astronaut captured this country's imagination by blasting into space, the country celebrates another extra-terrestrial milestone this week with a unique spectacle planned by Canada's first space tourist.
Marc Garneau wound up on cereal boxes and had schools named for him after Oct. 5, 1984, when the young naval officer began an eight-day mission on the now-infamous Space Shuttle Challenger.
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Canadian Nobel winners through history
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Amber Bellaire, Globe and Mail
Willard S. Boyle, a McGill University graduate born in Nova Scotia, was a joint recipient of the 2009 Nobel Physics Prize Tuesday morning in Stockholm, Sweden.
Mr. Boyle, a dual citizen of Canada and the U.S., shared the award with two Americans - George E. Smith and Charles K. Kao. In 1966, Mr. Kao figured out how to transmit light over long distances through optical glass fibers, a discovery that made it possible for people to exchange text, music and images around the world within seconds.
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Canadian universities getting greener: study
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Mark Iype, Vancouver Sun
An assessment of the environmental sustainability of colleges and universities across North America released Wednesday shows that Canadian schools are making headway in their efforts to go green.
The 2010 College Sustainability Report Card shows that the majority of the 17 Canadian universities included in the report have either improved their standing or have remained steady compared to last year's rating.
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Vancouver unveils LiveCity 2010 Winter Olympic sites, entertainment
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Bruce Constantineau, Vancouver Sun
What’s an Olympic celebration without beer or wine?
People asked that question a lot recently and the City of Vancouver listened; beer and wine will be sold at one of the city’s two Olympic entertainment sites to operate during the 2010 Games.
“We heard very strongly from people that were looking for a diversity of experiences for everyone,” said Sue Harvey, the city’s executive producer of the LiveCity Vancouver program.
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Battle of the Blades: faceoff on figure skates
Monday, October 05, 2009
Gayle MacDonald, Globe and Mail
From the huffing and puffing Tie Domi is doing as he skates off the ice at Upper Canada College – and is that a black eye? – one would think the former Toronto Maple Leafs enforcer had just dropped the gloves and gone another round with his former NHL nemesis, Bob Probert.
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B.C. relief map sees new life as Olympic security tool
Tuesday, October 06, 2009
Rod Mickleburgh, Globe and Mail
For more than 10 years, its whereabouts known only to a few dedicated preservationists, one of the world's largest relief maps and perhaps the province's best example of folk art languished in a series of dusty warehouses.
Now, the famed Challenger Relief Map, or at least a portion of it, has resurfaced as a centrepiece in, of all places, the headquarters of the RCMP-led Integrated Security Unit for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
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Opinion/Editorial
The Canada—U.S. border: It's time for Canada to smarten up
Monday, October 05, 2009
Colin Kenny, Vancouver Sun
Lots of Canadians are in full-tilt grumble these days over the stricter security measures the U.S. is imposing along the Canada–U.S border. I'm a bit grumpy myself. I have some real suspicions about the motives of some powerful Americans on what's happening at the borders.
Which might make you wonder why I'm suggesting that Canada enhance security along the border too—and that we do so in conjunction with the Americans as often as possible.
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Credit-card reforms are just and sensible
Monday, October 05, 2009
Montreal Gazette
We're touched, really touched, by the concern Canada's big banks are showing for our welfare. New federal rules requiring fuller disclosure about credit-card interest rates will cost a fortune to put into effect, the banks are saying, and in the end it's the poor consumers who will pay.
Much as we welcome the banks' solicitude, however, we think most Canadians who use credit cards are prepared to be brave and look the true cost of borrowing right in the face, when it's spelled out more clearly on our monthly statements, starting Jan. 1.
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Run for the Cure reminds us about breast cancer risks
Friday, October 02, 2009
Vancouver Sun
We frequently hear about breast cancer today, but it was not always so. Consequently, in 1992 a small group of volunteers in Toronto created a run to raise awareness of the disease.
One year later, Vancouver joined the run, and not long after, it became a national event. Last year, the CIBC Run for the Cure was held in 55 communities across Canada, included 170,000 runners, and raised $28.5 million for breast cancer research, education and awareness programs.
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