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Special Features
Lest we forget
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Office of the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today issued the following statement to mark Remembrance Day:
“Across this great country, from our largest cities to our smallest communities, we are united in remembrance and gratitude. On this Remembrance Day, we pause to remember the courage and sacrifice of those Canadian soldiers, sailors, and airmen and airwomen who served to defend our nation and fight tyranny, injustice and terror.
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Canada Signs Historic Agreement on Wilderness Protection with U.S. and Mexico
Saturday, November 07, 2009
Parks Canada
The Honourable Jim Prentice, Canada’s Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, today announced an unprecedented memorandum of understanding with the U.S. and Mexico to cooperate on wilderness conservation across North America. The announcement was made at the 9th World Wilderness Congress (Wild 9) in Mexico, where the Minister delivered a keynote speech on Canadian leadership in wildlife conservation.
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Minister Raitt Concludes Successful Visit to New York
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Natural Resources Canada
The Honourable Lisa Raitt, Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, concluded a two-day visit to the U.S. for talks about energy resources in Canada. Minister Raitt delivered a clear message to key business and national opinion leaders in New York: Canada is the largest supplier of crude oil to the U.S., focused on clean energy collaboration. And the source is right next door.
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PM welcomes 2015 Pan American and Parapan American Games to Canada
Friday, November 06, 2009
Office of the Prime Minister
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today welcomed the announcement that the 17th Pan American and Parapan American Games have been awarded to Toronto and the Greater Golden Horseshoe area. The decision was announced today at the Pan American Sports Organization meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico.
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International News
Canadians, Royals observe Remembrance Day
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Canwest News Service
Canada's war veterans and soldiers serving in Afghanistan were honoured from coast to coast and across two oceans Wednesday on Remembrance Day, including a ceremony in the nation's capital attended by Prince Charles and Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall.
Bright sunny skies welcomed the Royal couple along with veterans, dignitaries and tens of thousands of people for the sombre ceremony held at the National War Memorial in Confederation Square.
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Royals arrive in Ottawa in final leg of cross-Canada tour
Monday, November 09, 2009
Bruce Deachman and Sandra McCulloch, Canwest News Service
Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, arrived in Ottawa from Victoria on Monday evening, touching down at Ottawa International Airport just after 8 p.m. before being taken to Government House, where they were to spend the night.
The couple is rounding out their 11-day visit to Canada, spending their last few days in Ottawa, Montreal and at CFB Petawawa, before returning to England.
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Canadians could face eye scans at border
Monday, November 09, 2009
Ian Macleod, National Post
Washington is turning to the next item on its security agenda: eye scans.
With the last of about 600 northern border radiation detectors having been installed at Trout River, N.Y., on the Quebec border, completing a continent-wide shield aimed at repelling the smuggling of nuclear bombs, dirty bombs and other malicious nuclear materials from Canada, every car, truck and passenger entering the United States by land from Canada is searched for nuclear weapons.
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Pickens' plan good for Alberta and environment
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Calgary Herald
Philanthropist and oilman T. Boone Pickens dropped by for a visit with the Herald editorial board this week and showed he's the kind of friend Alberta's oilsands needs in the U.S.
The legendary Texas financier, who has the ear of President Barack Obama, has spent $62 million of his own money to create and promote a plan that has evolved into a Natural Gas Act with bipartisan support.
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PM departs for Asia with ambitious agenda
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
David Akin, Canwest News Service
Prime Minister Stephen Harper travels Thursday to Asia for a weekend summit in Singapore of Pacific Rim nations, followed by three days next week in India, a trip that Canadian officials hope leads to "a brand new era of partnership" with the world's largest democracy.
It will be Harper's first trip to India and his office has a jam-packed dawn-to-dusk itinerary that includes political, commercial, cultural and spiritual events.
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Canadians: balanced and competitive
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Diane Francis, Financial Post
Christina Gold spoke recently about the workplace and management differences between Canada and the United States with National Post editor-at-large Diane Francis. Ms. Gold is chief executive of Coloradobased Western Union Co., a US$5.3-billion-a-year financial institution operating in 200 countries and transferring about 70% of the world's remittances. She immigrated to Canada from the Netherlands at age four, grew up in Montreal, attended Carleton University and sped up the ranks of Avon North America's Canadian operations before taking its top position in 1993 in New York City.
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Minister slams N. Korea 'folly' ahead of visit
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Canwest News Service
Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon chastised North Korea's government yesterday for the "folly of totalitarianism" ahead of a visit he will make today to the demilitarized zone that separates the two Koreas.
The visit to the four-kilometre wide strip that cuts the Korean Peninsula in half is largely a symbolic one the Canadian government is using to underscore North Korea's isolation from the international community of nations as well as Canada's concerns that North Korea has abandoned negotiations — the so-called six-party talks — to find a peaceful resolution to get North Korea to end its nuclear weapons program.
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Cour pénale internationale — Le tribunal gagne en crédibilité et en influence
Mercredi 11 novembre 2009
Isabelle Porter, Le Devoir
Le président sortant de la Cour pénale internationale, le Québécois Philippe Kirsch, croit que l'organisation, malgré les résistances auxquelles elle fait face, commence à avoir un effet dissuasif chez les auteurs de crimes de guerre.
« Comme tous les adolescents, elle [la CPI] montre à la fois des signes d'infantilisme et de maturité », a déclaré le juge Kirsch dans une boutade au terme d'une conférence présentée hier à l'Université Laval devant une centaine de personnes.
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Business and Trade
Doer says Buy America program bad for both sides of border
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Karry Kusch, Winnipeg Free Press
Canada's rookie ambassador to the U.S. says the way to convince the United States to amend its protectionist 'Buy America' program is to prove to them that the strategy is costing American jobs.
Gary Doer has been lobbying U.S. politicians and business leaders and touring American manufacturing plants, making the case that the protectionist policy actually endangers U.S. jobs because of the integrated nature of the Canadian and American economies.
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Maintaining integrated trade between Canada and United States must be done: Doer
Friday, November 06, 2009
Barb Pacholik, The Leader-Post
In his first speech in this country as Canada’s ambassador to the United States, Gary Doer told a Regina crowd that a “Buy America” or “Buy Canada” policy isn’t good on either side of the border.
Doer warned that if such protectionist measures lead to a “closed America” or “closed Canada,” job losses in both countries will follow.
“We have to work on maintaining our integrated trade,” Doer told legislators from both sides of the border gathered in the city for the Pacific Northwest Economic Region (PNWER) meeting.
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Canada’s dirty oil needed on market: UN report
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Peter ONeil, Canwest News
The world needs Canada’s so-called dirty oil, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday even as it called on leaders to make decisive moves to slash greenhouse gas emissions at a United Nations-sponsored negotiating session next month.
"World leaders gathering in Copenhagen next month for the UN Climate Summit have a historic opportunity to avert the worst effects of climate change,” IEA executive director Nobuo Tanaka said in a statement after releasing the agency’s annual World Energy Outlook analysis.
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Une coentreprise pour Couche-Tard et Shell aux États-Unis
Mercredi 11 novembre 2009
La Presse
L'entreprise Alimentation Couche-Tard (T.ATD.B) a annoncé mercredi qu'elle prévoit signer une entente, par l'entremise d'une de ses filiales, en vue de la création d'une coentreprise avec Shell Oil Products US pour l'exploitation d'environ 100 magasins d'accommodation dans la grande région métropolitaine de Chicago.
Cette transaction, a expliqué Couche-Tard, est sujette aux approbations finales de la direction des deux entreprises et des autorités réglementaires ainsi qu'aux conditions de clôture usuelles. Il est prévu qu'elle soit conclue avant la fin de l'année en cours.
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B.C.'s top 100 companies: All that glitters is gold
Monday, November 09, 2009
Fiona Anderson
All that glitters is, in fact, gold — and in some cases, copper, silver or even sand and gravel.
Because, once again, British Columbia’s top companies for the past year are overwhelmingly miners.
Leading the pack as Business BC’s strongest company is Eldorado Gold, which moved up from 18th last year. The gold miner — with two operating mines and five exploration projects around the world — also ranked third on Business BC’s list of fastest-growing companies.
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Advertisers shifting their dollars to digital
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Matt Hartley, Financial Post
The recession has forced marketers to rethink how they’re divvying up their advertising budgets, allocating more money than ever to digital marketing, a new survey shows.
Thanks to improvements in technology, the economic downturn and increasing demand from their audiences, 81% of marketers said they planned to increase their spending online, while 49% said they expected to boost what they were shelling out for mobile marketing on cellphones and smartphones, according to a Media Mix survey from Ipsos Reid, presented Wednesday at Marketing Week’s Digital Day conference in Toronto.
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New online store sells designer duds at bargain prices
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Paula McCooey, The Ottawa Citizen
Not everyone can afford to pay full pop for their favourite designer styles, so a Canadian web-based company has created a site to help you look like a million bucks without blowing your budget.
Montreal-based BeyondtheRack.com launched last month and is similar to hot American websites such as Gilt Groupe and Rue La La where members-only users shop online "flash sales" for heavily discounted products.
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Canadian technology could help China’s housing
Monday, November 09, 2009
Dave Simms, CBC News
A promising Canadian technology may turn agricultural waste into a building product that could remedy problems of housing, carbon emissions and earthquake-proof construction in China.
Developed by the Alberta Research Council in Edmonton, the technology uses wheat straw — the residue from cutting the crop and removing the grain — to make a plywood substitute called Oriented Split Straw Board (OSSB).
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Canadian News
Torch to visit high arctic post of Alert, Nunavut
Sunday, November 08, 2009
The Canadian Press
At the end of his 16-hour days setting up a Cold War listening post at the very tip of northern Canada, Darryl Catton would walk along the untouched coast of Ellesmere Island with a midnight sun shining overhead.
Catton was an 18-year-old member of an air force construction unit when, in 1957, he was sent to the remote weather station at Alert to convert it into a military facility for spying on the Soviet Union.
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Vancouver Whitecaps join breakaway North American league
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Reuters
North America will have a new soccer league from April after rebel clubs broke away from the established second tier league to form a new competition.
The seven clubs, previously tied to the United Soccer Leagues (USL), the structure below Major League Soccer, said on Tuesday they had formed a new league and begun the formal process of gaining official recognition from governing bodies. The seven include USL champions Montreal Impact and the team they beat in the league’s final game — Vancouver Whitecaps.
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Proposed TV drama will bring Canadian legend to life
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Paula Simons, Edmonton Journal
The life of Sam Steele — Mountie, soldier, commander, and lover — is so grand, so improbable, so filled with action and adventure, courage and romance, history and heroism, it sounds like a movie script.
Now, at last, it will be.
This afternoon in Calgary, Alberta Culture Minister Lindsay Blackett, the CBC, and independent producer Chris Knight will announce a development deal to create a two-hour television movie based on Steele's life.
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10 faits remarquables sur le Québec
Mercredi 11 novembre 2009
Simon Diotte, La Presse
C'est le temps de tester vos connaissances ou de choisir votre prochaine destination vacances!
La plus grande municipalité
La municipalité de la Baie-James se targue non seulement d'être la plus grande municipalité du Québec, mais la plus grande du monde. Rien de moins. Son territoire fait 350 000 km2, surpassant la superficie totale de l'Italie! Son attrait principal: la visite de la centrale hydroélectrique Robert-Bourassa (LG2), à Radisson, le village blanc le plus nordique du Québec.
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Mansbridge named Mount Allison University chancellor
Monday, November 09, 2009
CBC News
The CBC's Peter Mansbridge will become the next chancellor of Mount Allison University in Sackville, N.B.
Mansbridge, anchor of CBC News The National and chief correspondent for the network, will be formally installed as the small liberal arts university's chancellor in May and will hold the position until December 2013.
Mansbridge will be the ceremonial head of Mount Allison, presiding over convocations, conferring all degrees and acting as an ambassador for the university.
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Buble adding more Love
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Gary Graff, Reuters
Michael Buble plans to give fans another dose of Crazy Love in 2010.
The Canadian singer tells Billboard.com that he will reissue the album — which recently spent its first two weeks at No. 1 on the U.S. charts — with some tracks left over from the recording sessions.
Among them will be "Hollywood Dead," which will be the third single from Crazy Love after "Have I Met You" and "Hold On."
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Linden MacIntyre, best known as broadcaster, wins Giller Prize
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Mark Medley, National Post
Linden MacIntyre, a veteran broadcast journalist best known for his investigative reporting, won the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize Tuesday evening for his novel The Bishop’s Man.
“I had a speech prepared but it wasn’t a speech that I wasn’t prepared to give here,” he said upon taking the stage. “It was a speech that I planned to give at home.”
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Funding sought for carbon capture push
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Dina OMeara, Calgary Herald
Carbon capture and storage schemes will help the world transition to renewable forms of energy but need government and industry funding to bridge the gap between implementing the technology and making a profit from it, according to a new study by the Integrated CO2 Network.
The technology is one in a suite of options Canada should be looking at to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and has an important role to play in moving the country to a lower carbon-emission future, said the 220-page report, one of the most detailed studies on carbon capture and storage in the world.
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Opinion/Editorial
Walt Natynczyk: The Canadian Forces are second to none
Wednesday, November 11, 2009
National Post
Tonight we recognize the outstanding service to Canada by our men and women in uniform. We also appreciate the love, care and support of their families. You know, we who wear the uniform, we all walked into the recruiting centre of our own volition. But our spouses were drafted when they agreed to marry us!
And especially in this week of remembrance, we celebrate our veterans — those who trained us, who showed us the way, who showed us what right looks like. Those who went overseas and made the supreme sacrifice so that we could live in peace.
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Time for Canadians to let their light shine
Monday, November 09, 2009
Arlene Dickinson, Financial Post
What is it about Canadian business leaders that differentiates them from the rest of the world? It's an interesting question, and one that really made me think.
For generations, Canadians have been guilty of hiding our lights under a barrel. There is a quiet confidence and self-deprecating streak that runs deep in Canadian business — despite the occasional gunslinger who seems to enjoy kicking the door in versus using the bell (Jim Balsillie comes to mind).
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Embuscade à Fort Hood
Mercredi 11 novembre 2009
Mario Roy, La Presse
Comme c'est devenu courant depuis 2001, les médias ont redoublé de zèle dans l'appel à la prudence à la suite du massacre de Fort Hood, il y a six jours. La lugubre embuscade a tué 13 personnes et en a blessé une quarantaine d'autres, en majorité des frères et soeurs d'armes du tireur, le major Nidal Malik Hasan. Celui-ci est un psychiatre militaire d'origine palestinienne et de confession musulmane.
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