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Félicitations aux deux équipes canadiennes pour leur classement impressionnant au Solar Decathlon de cette année, un concours de conception de bâtiments parrainé par le département américain de l'Énergie et tenu sur le National Mall à Washington (D.C.). La North House de l'Équipe Ontario/Colombie-Britannique a terminé au 4e rang et la SolAbode de l'Équipe Alberta s'est classée sixième. Apprenez-en davantage sur les deux maisons qui seront présentées aux Jeux olympiques d'hiver de 2010 à Vancouver. Écouter.
Dossiers
Le Canada, les États-Unis et le Mexique réaffirment leur engagement envers l'ALENA
Lundi 19 octobre 2009
Affaires étrangères et Commerce international Canada
Le ministre du Commerce international et ministre de la porte d'entrée de l'Asie-Pacifique, l'honorable Stockwell Day, a rencontré aujourd'hui le représentant au Commerce des États-Unis, M. Ron Kirk, et le secrétaire à l'Économie du Mexique, M. Gerardo Ruiz Mateos, à Dallas, au Texas. Au cours de cette rencontre, la première des ministres responsables du commerce des trois pays de l'ALENA depuis 2007, les trois ministres ont réaffirmé l'engagement de leur pays envers l'ALENA.
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Le Canada se réjouit de la mise en liberté de Maziar Bahari en Iran
Samedi 17 octobre 2009
Affaires étrangères et Commerce international Canada
Le ministre des Affaires étrangères, l’honorable Lawrence Cannon, s’est réjoui aujourd’hui de la mise en liberté du journaliste canadien Maziar Bahari par le gouvernement de l’Iran.
« C’est avec un grand soulagement que nous avons accueilli la nouvelle de la mise en liberté de Maziar Bahari de la prison où il était détenu en Iran, a déclaré le ministre Cannon. Le gouvernement du Canada partage la joie de la famille de M. Bahari, de ses amis, de ses collègues et de ses concitoyens, et espère qu’il pourra bientôt rejoindre son épouse pour la naissance de leur premier enfant. »
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Le Canada célèbre la résolution sur la Trêve olympique pour Vancouver 2010
Mardi 20 octobre 2009
Affaires étrangères et Commerce international Canada
Le gouvernement du Canada et le Comité d'organisation des Jeux olympiques et paralympiques d'hiver de 2010 à Vancouver (COVAN) ont accueilli avec satisfaction aujourd’hui l’adoption par l’ONU de la résolution sur la Trêve olympique pour les Jeux d'hiver de 2010. Le gouvernement et le COVAN ont présenté la résolution, une tradition de l’ONU et des Jeux olympiques, à l'Assemblée générale de l'ONU à New York, et elle a été adoptée hier soir d'un commun accord par les 192 États membres de l'ONU.
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Actualités internationales
U.S. says it's keen to resolve Buy American
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Bertrand Marotte, Globe and Mail
The United States is acutely aware of Canadians' concerns over protectionist Buy American policies and keen to resolve the issue, says the new U.S. Ambassador to Canada.
“Every elected official (in an ongoing tour of Canada) I met has raised it with me,” David Jacobson said in a speech to the annual policy forum of the Canadian American Business Council.
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Le Canada et les États-Unis forment une « famille »
Mercredi 21 octobre 2009
Vincent Brousseau-Pouliot, La Presse
« Bonjour mesdames et messieurs! »
En commençant son discours avec quelques mots en français, le nouvel ambassadeur américain au Canada, David Jacobson, a réussi sa rentrée diplomatique en sol québécois. L'avocat de Chicago, qui a été vice-président des finances de la campagne présidentielle de Barack Obama, a effectué son premier discours au Québec ce matin lors d'une conférence du Conseil des affaires canado-américaines, au centre-ville de Montréal. « Mon fils étudie à l'Université McGill, alors je vais accepter toutes les invitations à Montréal au cours de mon mandat », dit-il.
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Gary Doer set to tell Canada's 'great story'
Monday, October 19, 2009
Mitch Potter, Toronto Star
When Gary Doer arrives today as Canada's new ambassador to Washington, the move involves more than trading Winnipeg winters for life in America's often sweltering political hothouse.
The former Manitoba NDP premier's journey is also a leap of faith that, whatever their ideological differences, he and Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper are cut from the same cloth when it comes to selling Canada here.
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Oil sands get ‘disproportionate’ bad reputation: Gary Doer
Monday, October 19, 2009
Sheldon Alberts, Canwest News Service
Canada's new ambassador to the United States said Alberta's oil sands are facing a "disproportionate amount" of criticism in the climate-change debate—arguing North America risks missing "the big picture" on global warming if Canadian oil is singled out as the chief carbon emissions culprit.
"One of the concerns that I have is that it represents so little of the emissions in North America. It's getting a disproportionate amount of chatter," Gary Doer said in an interview Sunday with Canwest News Service.
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Bill Clinton praises Canada
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Jean-Marc Gilbert, QMI Agency
Former U.S. president Bill Clinton was given a warm welcome yesterday during a visit to McGill University where he was accepting an honorary law degree from the school.
Clinton was greeted by nearly 500 people as well as an imposing group of journalists during a speech that lasted about 30 minutes and illustrated Clinton's fondness for Canada.
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Solar house built with UW talent finishes fourth in international competition
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Cherri Greeno, The Record
An experimental solar house designed partly by University of Waterloo students placed fourth in an international competition that ended this weekend.
Team North—whose members are students from the University of Waterloo, Ryerson University in Toronto and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, B.C.—was among 20 teams entered in the Solar Decathlon in Washington D.C.
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Olympic flame officially lit in Greece
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Stephanie Levitz, The Canadian Press
With the presentation of an olive branch and the release of a white dove, the torch departed with a Greek runner, the start of a seven-day historic relay through Greece.
It will then be handed over to Vancouver 2010 officials next week and flown to Canada for a 45,000-kilometre, 106-day trek criss-crossing the country before culminating with the start of the Winter Games in February.
The ceremony moved many of the dignitaries in attendance who have been planning the Games for years.
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CBC's Beijing Olympics coverage scores Gemini honours
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
The Canadian Press
CBC-TV's coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympics won five Geminis at an industry gala celebrating the best in news, sports, documentary and lifestyles television.
The trophies were handed out at a private bash in Toronto that recognized the public broadcaster for best sports analyst, feature segment, play-by-play announcer, reporting and live event.
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Affaires et commerce
Canadian forest sector fears massive U.S. green energy subsidy
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Gordon Hamilton, Vancouver Sun
A new U.S. biofuel subsidy is sounding alarm bells in the Canadian forest industry over fears it could be used by American forest companies to give them a final and overwhelming advantage in the battle for continental supremacy.
The Canadian industry is saying it is no longer competing against American forest companies but is in an unwinnable battle with the U.S. Treasury which is doling out billions in a bid to develop new green energy resources.
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Bank of Canada clings to low rates on strong dollar
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Paul Vieira, Financial Post
The Bank of Canada said Tuesday that the "heightened volatility" and "persistent strength" in the Canadian dollar are subduing inflationary pressures and slowing growth.
It added that "the current strength in the dollar is expected, over time, to more than fully offset the favourable developments" in the economy since the central bank last published its economic outlook in July.
As a result, it reiterated its conditional commitment to keep its key policy rate at a record low 0.25 per cent until the end of June of 2010.
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Tame inflation may keep rates low
Friday, October 16, 2009
Globe and Mail
Inflation in Canada remains tame, giving the central bank leeway to continue to fight the economic slump with low interest rates.
Consumer prices fell 0.9 per cent in September from a year earlier, closely tracking the 0.8-per-cent decline in August, Statistics Canada said Friday. But this was driven largely by energy prices, which has been a trend.
Energy prices fell 18.7 per cent year over year. Excluding energy, the annual inflation rate was 1.3 per cent last month.
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Best Cities for Business: Saskatchewan heats up
Monday, October 19, 2009
Derek Sankey, Financial Post
It's official: Saskatchewan is the new Alberta.
According to the second annual FP/CFIB ranking of Canada's top business-friendly cities, Saskatchewan and Quebec have the largest number of cities at the top of the list, while the post-boom cities of British Columbia and Alberta, along with those in Ontario, dropped significantly in the rankings from lower commodity prices and faltering economies.
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If a country's too good to be true… then diversify
Friday, October 16, 2009
Tom Bradley, Globe and Mail
Oh Canada! In the constant debate about whether this rally is for real or not, there is an underlying subtext. It relates to how much emphasis investors should put on Canada. In the discussion, there are many who are asking the question, why bother putting any money outside our borders?
The Canadian stock market has been the star of the show over the past decade. With the help of a strong currency, the S&P/TSX composite index has beat the S&P 500 in eight of the past 10 years (in Canadian dollar terms), and nine out of 11 when 2009 is included. And there are persuasive arguments why this will continue.
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Canadian exporters shift focus to Asia
Monday, October 19, 2009
David Ebner, Globe and Mail
An eight-person team of engineering, sales and marketing staff at Monarch Industries Ltd. is tackling a critical mission for the Winnipeg manufacturer: Crack China.
The 74-year-old maker of hydraulic cylinders and other products has long done most of its business in the U.S. But within a decade, Monarch Industries wants to completely reverse that, aiming to do 80 per cent of its sales outside North America, starting with China.
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Ontario breweries exchange Vancouver's Granville Island Brewery
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Vancouver Sun
Granville Island Brewing has been sold to Ontario-based Creemore Springs Brewing, the companies announced today.
The Vancouver firm, established in 1984, was Canada's first microbrewery.
Creemore, established in 1987, said it is buying Granville Island Brewing from Ontario-based Andrew Pelleter Limited.
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Vente du Canadien : la transaction est complétée
Vendredi 16 octobre 2009
Vincent Brousseau-Pouliot, La Presse
Après presque quatre mois de discussions, la famille Molson et George Gillett se sont entendus sur les détails de la vente du Canadien de Montréal vendredi dernier. Ne reste plus que l'approbation de la Ligue nationale de hockey, une formalité qui devrait venir à la mi-décembre.
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Actualités canadiennes
Canada approves H1N1 vaccine
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Caroline Alphonso, Globe and Mail
Canada's health regulator has approved the country's H1N1 influenza vaccine, The Globe and Mail has learned.
It will now be moved out of provincial and territorial warehouses and sent to local public health authorities so they can begin immunizing the population as soon as possible.
The authorization by Health Canada will be announced at a news conference later today and will mark the beginning of the country's largest immunization campaign, a federal official has confirmed.
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Provincial gap in tuition fees is growing, StatsCan finds
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Elizabeth Church, Globe and Mail
Tuition fees in Ontario are now the highest in the country, with undergraduates paying just shy of $6,000 a year on average, more than double the cost for students who study in the most affordable jurisdictions—Newfoundland and Quebec.
The growing gap in tuition costs across the country is reflected in new numbers from Statistics Canada. While the average increase for tuition this school year was the same as last, at 3.6 per cent, that national number masks a disparity among provinces in their approaches to fees for postsecondary education.
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1 in 3 Canadian baby boomers devote time, money, mileage to aging parents: Survey
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Linda Nguyen, Canwest News Service
A third of Canadian baby boomers spend either time or money looking after their aging parents, something the majority says has strengthened their family relationships for the better, according to the results of a national poll released Monday.
The study, conducted by Investors Group, surveyed 500 Canadians between the ages of 43 to 63 and found 69 per cent had at least one living parent or parent-in-law. Of that group, 35 per cent said they devoted an average of 42 hours each month or travelled an average of 225 kilometres a month to care for their parent or parents.
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New torch embodies pride of all Canadians
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Max Harrold, Canwest News Service
It weighs 1.5 kilograms, about as much as an alpine ski, and it is compact and sleek. But Canada's brand new Olympic torch also has to embody the dynamic landscapes, hopes and pride of all Canadians.
No pressure, then.
Crafting such a recognizable symbol was in fact a tall order, but Bombardier Inc. designer Daniel Deschenes got his basic inspiration for the torch that will light the flame at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver Feb. 12 by just looking out on a winter's day.
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Mayor releases plan to make Vancouver the world's greenest city by 2020
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Gerry Bellett, Vancouver Sun
Mayor Gregor Robertson announced an ambitious 10-year plan Tuesday to make Vancouver the world’s greenest city by 2020.
Robertson presented the plan to Gaining Ground-Resilient Cities conference at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
“As in many other cities, Vancouver’s ecological footprint is far too large despite having decisions made decades ago to keep freeways out of the city, protect our watershed and to protect agricultural lands surrounding the city,” Robertson told hundreds of delegates to the three-day conference.
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Alice Munro reveals fight with cancer
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Globe and Mail
Alice Munro, one of Canada’s most revered and internationally recognized authors, revealed Wednesday night that she has battled cancer.
Speaking at a sold-out, $100-a-head fundraising event in Toronto marking the beginning of the 10-day International Festival of Authors, the 78-year-old Ms. Munro made the admission during a discussion about age with acclaimed British author Diana Athill.
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Vancouver student wins Modern Amusement T-shirt contest
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Chantal Eustace, Vancouver Sun
Creating a winning T-shirt design for Los Angeles-based fashion label Modern Amusement was an exciting experience, says Emily Carr student Adam Lupton.
The 22-year-old's creation—an artfully scrawled poem wrapped around a profile sketch of a crow—helped him beat more than 475 entries from across Canada in a contest held by Modern Amusement and Holt Renfrew, which carries the line.
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Montréal ville de verre brillera de mille feux en 2010
Mercredi 21 octobre 2009
Isabelle Paré, La Presse
Si l'obscurité règne à l'Hôtel de Ville, le Montréal culturel sera plus que jamais transparent en 2010 grâce à l'élan commun de 25 musées montréalais qui multiplieront toute l'année les expositions sur les thèmes liés au verre, de l'histoire à l'architecture en passant par la science et l'art contemporain.
« Nous lançons un événement majeur. Le verre explosera en 2010 à Montréal en centaines d'objets et d'expositions liés à un thème commun: le verre », a soutenu Madeleine Juneau, présidente du conseil d'administration de la Société des directeurs des musées montréalais (SDMM), qui dévoilait hier le projet inusité « Montréal, ville de verre ».
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Opinions et éditoriaux
Canada needs to enlist its allies in the U.S. to fight Buy American
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Michael Fortier, Globe and Mail
The federal government has voiced significant concerns over the pernicious effects of the Buy American provisions embedded in the Obama administration's $800-billion stimulus program. Many Canadian companies maintain that they have been excluded from requests for proposals for contracts stemming from the program.
Although understandably irritated, should we be surprised?
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The talking cure for the currency
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Globe and Mail
The apparent effect of some words from Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of Canada, on the Canadian dollar's exchange rate yesterday was a striking success of Canadian public policy in influencing the markets; at one point, the dollar was cheaper than it had been since Oct. 9. It is an accomplishment to cause movement in the desired direction—downwards, in this case, to make Canadian exports more affordable—just by staying put and talking about it.
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La disparition du fédéral
Jeudi 22 octobre 2009
André Pratte, La Presse
Il y a cinq mois, l'Assemblée nationale adoptait une motion unanime réclamant que le gouvernement fédéral cède à la province tous les terrains dont il est propriétaire sur la colline parlementaire à Québec. « Je ne crois pas qu'une nation doive laisser à une autre la protection de son patrimoine », a lancé Pauline Marois.
Au fil des décennies, le gouvernement du Québec a à plusieurs reprises voulu devenir propriétaire du lot se situant juste devant l'Hôtel du Parlement. Cet été, le gouvernement Harper a acquiescé à cette demande. Dossier réglé? Non.
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