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C2C Podcast: Canadian Students Design Solar-powered Homes of the Future
The Connect2Canada Team
Join us as we talk to the Canadian students who are hoping to bring home the gold at this year’s Solar Decathlon, a building design competition sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and held on the National Mall in Washington D.C. The Decathlon challenges 20 teams from around the world to design, build and operate the ultimate energy-efficient, solar-powered house.
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Special Features
PM and Alberta Premier announce cutting-edge clean energy project
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Office of the Prime Minister
Canada is strengthening its position as a world leader in clean energy as Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach today announced construction of one of the world’s first fully-integrated carbon capture and storage projects, for a coal-fired power plant near Edmonton. A partnership between the Harper Government and the Government of Alberta, the project will reduce CO2 emissions from TransAlta’s Keephills 3 plant near Edmonton.
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Russia and Canada Partner for Ground-Breaking New Opportunities for Agricultural Exports
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Canada and Russia are creating ground-breaking new opportunities for agricultural trade and cooperation between the two countries. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz announced progress on a number of agricultural issues from Moscow today. Minister Ritz's mission builds on the Joint Statement on Agriculture Cooperation signed in 2007 and Minister of International Trade Stockwell Day's mission to Russia in June.
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PM celebrates Diwali
Friday, October 09, 2009
Office of the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today highlighted the Indo-Canadian community’s contributions to Canada during a Diwali celebration on Parliament Hill.
“Diwali, or the ‘Festival of Lights,’ illuminates the universal hope of all people for the renewal of life and the triumph of good over evil,” said the Prime Minister. “This is a journey that resonates with all Canadians and binds us together in our faith, dreams and aspirations for the future.”
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International News
New U.S. ambassador to Canada in Alberta to visit oilsands
Monday, October 12, 2009
Jason Markusoff, Calgary Herald
U.S. President Barack Obama’s new envoy to Canada will get his first glimpse of the oilsands Wednesday, and said he hopes to help offer input for the administration’s climate-change policies.
U.S. Ambassador David Jacobson met with oilpatch members on his first visit today to Calgary. Afterwards, he said people on both sides of the border want a balance between energy production and environmental protection.
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Canada rated a stellar performer in improving energy efficiency
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Peter ONeil, Canwest News Service
The world needs countries like Canada as it struggles to meet both the rising demand for energy and the critical need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, a senior International Energy Agency official said here Wednesday.
At a gathering of ministers that included senior representatives from China, Russia and India, the IEA released a "scoreboard" assessing the performance of the agency's 28 member countries.
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David Suzuki wins 'Alternative Nobel'
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
CBC News
Environmentalist David Suzuki has received a prestigious award known as the "alternative Nobel" for his work to raise awareness about climate change.
Suzuki, 73, received the Right Livelihood Award, along with three other activists.
The awards were established in 1980 by Swedish-German philanthropist Jakob von Uexkull to recognize work that he felt was ignored by the Nobel Prizes.
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Un prix littéraire français pour la romancière québécoise Christine Eddie
Mercredi 14 octobre 2009
La Presse
La saison des prix littéraires bat son plein en France, où plusieurs petites récompenses sont attribuées chaque semaine, en marge des plus prestigieuses comme le Goncourt ou le Renaudot, décernés en novembre. La romancière québécoise Christine Eddie vient d'en remporter une: il s'agit du prix Senghor du premier roman francophone, qui lui a été accordé hier pour Les Carnets de Douglas.
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Tim Hortons strikes gold; opens at Fort Knox
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Canwest News Service
Tim Hortons has broken into Fort Knox. The iconic Canadian coffee and doughnut chain, announced Tuesday the opening of a franchise at the American landmark.
The Kentucky base, home to 30,000 soldiers, civilians, and their families, lies adjacent to the United States Bullion Depository, the gold reserve famous for its super security.
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False Creek getting Belgian-made trams for 2010 Olympics
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Jeff Lee, Vancouver Sun
The city of Brussels, Belgium on Monday shipped two state-of-the-art light rail trams to Vancouver, a gift to use during the 2010 Winter Games on a refurbished 1.8-kilometre line along False Creek.
The vehicles, which were built by Canadian transportation giant Bombardier at its Bruges plant in Belgium, will operate 18 hours a day, seven days a week during the Olympic and Paralympic period between Granville Island and the Vancouver Athletes Village.
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Vancouver Film School added to list of top 25 exporters
Monday, October 12, 2009
Joanne Lee-Young, Vancouver Sun
When the Vancouver Film School opened admissions offices in Mexico City, Taipei and Seoul last year, it didn't realize their importance — until the U.S. economic crisis wiped out 50 per cent of its American students, starting last October.
Without the new markets, "we would not have been able to increase our growth. They have more than replaced our American students," said Benjamin Colling, the school's Vancouver-based director of admissions.
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Business and Trade
Canada adds 31,000 jobs in September
Friday, October 09, 2009
Julie Fortier, Financial Post
The Canadian economy gained a surprising 30,600 jobs in September, driven mostly by full-time jobs, Statistics Canada said Friday, as the economy continued to show signs of recovering from the country's first recession since the early 1990s.
"September's full-time increase of 92,000 — the largest since May 2006 — was partially offset by part-time losses of 61,000," the federal agency said. "Construction, manufacturing and educational services saw employment increases in September, while there were declines in transportation and warehousing."
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Loonie, gold, oil rise as dollar sinks
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The Canadian Press
The embattled U.S. dollar sank again Tuesday, driving the loonie (CAD/USD-I0.970.0030.29%), gold and oil higher.
The weakening greenback boosted demand for oil and other commodities, in turn giving the Canadian dollar another push as it is seen as a commodity-linked currency by global traders, and some analysts say the loonie could hit parity with the U.S. currency before the end of the year.
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How to make the rising dollar your best friend
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
John Heinzl, Globe and Mail
The loonie's stunning rise may be causing some teeth-gnashing in Ottawa and sowing fear among manufacturers, but for investors such as Tony Demarin, it's a gift from the currency gods.
The president of BCV Asset Management in Winnipeg has been taking advantage of the strong dollar by scooping up more U.S. stocks, which have gotten cheaper thanks to our soaring currency.
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Canada could cash in on climate change battle
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Carrie Tait, Financial Post
Canada could cash in on the battle for climate change should countries around the world spend the trillions of dollars the International Energy Agency contends is necessary to boost carbon capture and storage, it was predicted Tuesday.
Businesses and governments need to pony up between US$2.4-trillion and US$3.4-trillion before 2050 for carbon-capture and storage projects, the IEA said in a 46-page report. While Canada is going to have to invest billions to develop CCS techniques, that could translate into big profits down the road.
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RBC buys wealth JP Morgan's wealth management business
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Reuters
Royal Bank of Canada said on Tuesday it reached a deal to buy JPMorgan Chase & Co's investment adviser servicing business, the latest step by RBC to expand its U.S. wealth management division.
Details of the agreement were not disclosed.
When the deal is complete, the business will be renamed and become part of RBC Advisor Services, a unit of RBC Wealth Management's U.S. division that specializes in providing custody and clearing services to high-performing third-party registered investment advisors.
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RIM launching new version of touchscreen BlackBerry
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Wojtek Dabrowski, Globe and Mail
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM-T71.020.170.24%) is launching a new version of its touchscreen Storm smartphone, marking its latest move in the fight with Apple's iPhone.
The Storm2, as the device is known, is “a biggie for us,” RIM co-chief executive Jim Balsillie said in an interview.
The smartphone retains the original Storm's clickable touchscreen interface, but improves upon it with faster typing and “multitouch” capabilities, which allow users to type on more than just one part of the screen at a time.
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Ontario boosts local wine with new labelling, tax measures
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Josh Wingrove, Globe and Mail
In an effort to squeeze foreign grapes out of Canadian wine, the Ontario government Tuesday announced regulatory and tax changes that will encourage local producers to make wines entirely from domestic grapes.
The province announced it will change the rules surrounding wines branded as “Cellared in Canada,” which, despite their name, are required to include only 30 per cent local grapes to be sold under that label in the province.
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Canadian News
Canadians will get H1N1 shots faster than others: official
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Chinta Puxley, Globe and Mail
Canada may be behind other countries in rolling out its swine flu vaccine, but the population should be immunized by Christmas before the virus peaks, the country's chief public health officer said Wednesday.
David Butler-Jones said when the H1N1 vaccine becomes available in early November, Canadians will be immunized faster than people in other parts of the world.
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Space trip a 'great success': Laliberté
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
CBC News
Canadian space tourist Guy Laliberté says his 10-day stay at the International Space Station successfully drew attention to his work to guarantee access to clean water worldwide.
Laliberté, 50, told reporters at the cosmonaut training centre outside Moscow on Tuesday that his trip was a "great success."
The Cirque du Soleil founder used part of his trip to stage a two-hour, multi-city show from the station on Friday to help raise awareness of global drinking-water problems.
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Olympic employees, volunteers will be sporting blue in 2010
Monday, October 12, 2009
Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun
Athletes at the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will be competing for gold, silver and bronze. But the dominant colour in the Olympic esthetic in Vancouver and Whistler will be bright blue.
Vancouver 2010 employees and volunteers — all 30,000 of them — are being kitted out in blue winter jackets with Olympic rings or Paralympic crescent-shaped symbols called agitos on the back on the back.
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Olympic transportation plan will see people funnelled to transit
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Kelly Sinoski, Vancouver Sun
Olympic officials hope to funnel an unprecedented number of people onto transit during the 2010 Winter Games in a bid to avoid chaos on the roads.
With about 150,000 people per day expected to surge into Vancouver’s downtown peninsula, the goal is to cut road traffic into the downtown, over the region’s bridges and into Whistler by 30 per cent.
Transit officials say they expect a 20-per-cent increase in ridership on all modes of public transportation.
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Trois jours de fête au coeur de la mode
Mercredi 14 octobre 2009
Carole Vallières, Le Devoir
Que ce soient les grandes fleurs dans la robe longue de Muse, qui présentait une collection « new look revisité par Pretty Woman », les vestes graphiques extravagantes de Dinh Bà ou les soies et les lins d'Yves Jean Lacasse, dont les robes et les vestes modernes évoquent la noblesse passée; que ce soit la présence de jeunes designers français venus montrer qu'il y a une couture créative en France en dehors de la Chambre syndicale de la haute couture, le maître mot de la Semaine de mode de Montréal est: festif.
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Arctic voyagers reach Halifax
Saturday, October 10, 2009
CBC News
Three sailors who crossed the Northwest Passage this summer completed the final leg of their journey Saturday in Halifax harbour.
Canadian Cameron Dueck and two Germans set sail from Victoria in early June, hoping to raise awareness about the impact of climate change in the Arctic.
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Hockey scores a new arena
Monday, October 12, 2009
Larry Humber, Globe and Mail
A show of hockey art called ARENA: Road Game at Toronto's Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art may have hard-line gallerygoers gagging, but that doesn't bother David Liss and Ray Cronin.
Five years before the World Hockey Championships came to Halifax in 2008, Cronin, who was then curator and is now director and CEO of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, began to think about putting together a show focusing on Canada's national game. It turned out to be a massive undertaking, raising eyebrows along the way.
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Are you in your happy place?
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Anna Mehler Paperny, Globe and Mail
If you can believe their survey responses, Canadians are happiest when they're surrounded by an outdoorsy environment and friendly neighbours.
And, furthermore, the urbanized city dwellers who aren't getting their friendly, fresh-air fix just aren't as satisfied with their lives as a result.
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Opinion/Editorial
Why people are chilled by warming
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail
Tim Flannery, the well-known Australian environmentalist, was on CBC Radio the other day to issue more alarms about global warming. He was more pessimistic than ever. “It's now or never,” he said. “We have about 20 years to address climate change or else our entire future is in jeopardy.” He painted an apocalyptic picture of drought, flooding, famine and war.
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Avant de tuer le Stade
Mercredi 14 octobre 2009
Yves Boisvert, La Presse
On est sur le point de condamner pour de bon le Stade olympique et de se priver d'un lieu de manifestations sportives majeures assez rare. Me semble qu'avant d'y engloutir d'autres centaines de millions, un nouvel examen de la question s'impose.
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