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Special Features
Secretary Napolitano and Minister Van Loan announce initiatives to combat common threats and expedite travel and trade
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Public Safety Canada
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Public Safety Canada Minister Peter Van Loan today announced initiatives between the United States and Canada.
Those initiatives build on their shared commitment to tackle common threats like terrorism and organized crime while ensuring the lawful flow of travel and trade across the border.
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Canada Welcomes UN Resolution on Iranian Human Rights Situation
Friday, November 20, 2009
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
The Honourable Lawrence Cannon, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today issued the following statement welcoming the adoption of a resolution on the human rights situation in Iran, following a vote earlier today at the Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly:
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WTO to Hear Canada’s Challenge to U.S. Mandatory Country-of-Origin Labelling
Friday, November 20, 2009
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada
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, today announced that the World Trade Organization has established a dispute settlement panel to hear Canada’s challenge to U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL).
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International News
Saskatchewan premier takes green scheme south
Friday, November 20, 2009
Sheldon Alberts, Canwest News Service
The surest way for any Canadian politician to gain access to the halls of power in Washington is to arrive here selling something the Americans are buying.
Right now, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall is finding more doors open than closed on Capitol Hill and at the White House.
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JO 2010: Ottawa s'assurera qu'il n'y ait pas de traite de personnes
Mardi 24 novembre 2009
Lee-Anne Goodman, La Presse
Le gouvernement fédéral suivra de près les Jeux olympiques de Vancouver pour s'assurer que la traite de personnes ne soit pas un problème, a assuré mardi le ministre fédéral de la Sécurité publique, Peter Van Loan.
A l'issue d'une rencontre au sujet de la sécurité frontalière avec la secrétaire de la Sécurité intérieure des Etats-Unis, Janet Napolitano, M. Van Loan a déclaré que les autorités ne disposaient pas de preuves démontrant que des opérations de trafic de personnes étaient planifiées pour les Jeux olympiques.
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Solving hunger with super-rice
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Jessica Leeder, Globe and Mail
In a humid faux-tropical haven set in a Toronto basement and lit with near-blinding artificial sunlight, Herbert Kronzucker has begun to save the world.
As a starting point, he chose the three billion people — just under half the globe's current population — who subsist mainly on rice. The logic of doing so occurred to him while he was up to his knees in a swampy Philippine rice field more than a decade ago, on a side-trip during a tree biology project.
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Canada ready to defend Arctic, minister says
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Antonella Artuso, Sun Media
Canada remains ready to defend its Arctic border against nations that would "push the envelope," Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon says.
Although scientists are still mapping the country's icy and watery northern limits, an exercise that won't be complete until 2013, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said yesterday that the country takes its responsibility for its Arctic lands and water seriously.
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Sunken Gold Rush ship discovered in Yukon
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service
A team of Canadian and U.S. marine archeologists has discovered a long-lost shipwreck in the depths of Yukon's legendary Lake Laberge that is being hailed as a "national treasure" and a "time capsule" from the Klondike.
The "perfectly preserved" 19th-century sternwheeler A.J. Goddard — named for an intrepid U.S. shipping merchant who pioneered Yukon River transport during the wild race for Canadian gold in the 1890s — went down in a storm more than a century ago in the setting made famous by the Robert Service poem "The Cremation of Sam McGee."
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Quebec vows ambitious cuts to greenhouse gas emissions
Monday, November 23, 2009
Rhéal Séguin, Globe and Mail
Quebec Premier Jean Charest unveiled an ambitious plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 per cent from 1990 levels by 2020, setting a target similar to what the European Union has adopted.
The stringent new goal would place Quebec among North American leaders with the lowest level of emissions per habitant on the continent
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Wall unearthed from Canada’s oldest British settlement
Monday, November 23, 2009
Randy Boswell, Canwest News Service
Archeologists at the historic Newfoundland colony visited earlier this month by Prince Charles have made a tantalizing new find: the remnants of a stone wall apparently built to defend Canada's earliest English settlement.
Buried under soil and rubble dumped by 19th-century residents of Cupids — the Conception Bay village set to celebrate its 400th anniversary next year — the wall was hidden until this summer within a thicket of aspen trees north of the enclosed townsite where experts have already unearthed building foundations and artifacts from the original 17th-century colony.
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Business and Trade
BMO hausse ses profits et achète Diners Club
Mardi 24 novembre 2009
La Presse
La Banque de Montréal (T.BMO) a vu ses profits et ses revenus augmenter, respectivement, de 15,6% et 6,3%, au quatrième trimestre par rapport à la période correspondante de l'exercice précédent.
Pour la période de trois mois terminée le 31 octobre dernier, la banque a réalisé un revenu net (bénéfice net) de 647 millions de dollars, ou 1,11 $ par action ordinaire, contre un revenu net de 560 millions, ou 1,06 $ par action, un an auparavant.
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Feeding China's middle class
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Rebecca Penty, Telegraph-Journal
China's burgeoning middle class offers new market opportunities for Atlantic Canadian lobster, says a Saint John consultant charged with building ties with the Asian country.
Ivy Wang says lobster from Canada's East Coast has not yet been aggressively promoted in China, where the population segment that can afford the crustacean is growing.
"Every year we see another 300,000 people moving into the middle class," Wang said of the Asian superpower. "The market itself is growing really fast."
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Retail sales rise more than expected in September
Monday, November 23, 2009
Financial Post
Retail sales in Canada rose more than expected in September, the seventh increase in nine months, led by gains in the automotive sector, Statistics Canada said Monday.
Sales were up one% during the month to $34.9-billion, the federal agency said, with increases recorded in six of eight major sectors.
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Torino's deal shows Vancouver a path
Monday, November 23, 2009
Bert Archer, Globe and Mail
On the eve of the Vancouver Olympics, the organization that owns the Italian venues built and renovated for the last Winter Games is putting the final touches on a deal that illustrates a key challenge: What to do with the buildings after the crowds have left?
The agreement in principle, still in final negotiations, is with LiveNation, the Clear Channel entertainment-management spinoff best known for deals with U2, Jay-Z and Madonna.
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First Quantum to buy Kiwara for US$260.2-million
Monday, November 23, 2009
Eric Lam, Financial Post
Canadian mining company First Quantum Minerals Ltd. said Monday it has agreed to buy Kiwara PLC, a London mineral exploration company, for about US$260.2-million in cash and stock.
Kiwara shareholders will get 0.0085 First Quantum shares and 0.375 of a pound for each share held. This implies a value of 0.75 of a pound for each Kiwara share, a 41.5% premium on its closing price last Friday.
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Victoria restaurateur finds new career in olive oil
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Andrew A. Duffy, Canwest News Service
Demetrios Psyllakis, known better as Paul to those who have dabbled in the Victoria restaurant scene, ought to be slowing down. But fuelled by a surging olive oil business, a successful restaurant and a passion for improving the lot of his people on Crete, the 70-year-old is flying high right now and quite happily working “more than full time.”
“I feel 10 feet tall,” said Psyllakis as he surveyed a display of his recently arrived extra virgin olive oil. “I am just thrilled to see people coming in to get some of that olive oil, it’s an incredible feeling when people come to ask you for it.”
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Portrait — Des condos à la carte
Lundi 23 novembre 2009
Claude Turcotte, Le Devoir
À l'âge de 24 ans, encore étudiant, Stéphane Côté achète en 1992, avec un ami d'enfance, deux triplex en mauvais état situés rue Saint-Urbain, à Montréal, pour les rénover eux-mêmes et les louer par la suite. Cet investissement de 120 000 $ par triplex fut le premier pas de ces apprentis entrepreneurs vers la création, en 1998, de l'entreprise Développements McGill (DM), qui depuis 10 ans a effectué des investissements immobiliers de 175 millions et vient d'annoncer une injection supplémentaire de 30 millions dans la troisième phase de son projet de condominiums dans le Vieux-Montréal. Mais ce n'est là qu'un début.
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Canadian News
Ottawa, Alta. to spend $560 million on carbon capture project
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
The Canadian Press
A large-scale carbon capture and storage project planned for Alberta's industrial heartland could be a "bright light" for a region hit hard by woes in the petroleum refining sector, the head of a local economic development group said Tuesday.
"It could become a huge strategic factor in where companies locate their operations," said Neil Shelly, executive director of Alberta's Industrial Heartland Association, which represents four municipalities surrounding Edmonton.
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Un coup de coeur nommé Aveux
Mardi 24 novembre 2009
Stéphane Baillargeon, La Presse
Radio-Canada diffuse ce soir la conclusion de sa mégamerveilleuse série Aveux, de loin la plus belle surprise de la rentrée automnale au petit écran. Retour sur une production hors norme avec l'auteur, Serge Boucher, et le réalisateur, Claude Desrosiers.
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City shows off gadgets to help use less road salt
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
The Ottawa Citizen
The City of Ottawa has unveiled new monitoring technology for its salt trucks that it says will save money and reduce the use of salt to keep roads free of ice in winter.
The city has added a system that allows it to monitor salt operations in real time. Supervisors will be able to tell operators to make adjustments in response to changes in weather and road conditions.
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Grand Prix du Canada : approbation cette semaine
Lundi 23 novembre 2009
Denis Lessard, La Presse
Après bien des faux départs, tout est en place pour la tenue du Grand Prix du Canada à Montréal le 13 juin prochain. Les trois ordres de gouvernement se sont entendus avec Formula One Management, la société de Bernie Ecclestone, pour la tenue de cette compétition internationale pour les cinq prochaines années.
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Grey Cup: In Calgary, Rider fans feel right at home
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Sean Fitz-Gerald, National Post
Marion Hayes owns a modest 50-seat pub just down the road from McMahon Stadium, home to the Calgary Stampeders. She describes it as the kind of neighbourhood watering hole where pictures of famous people from small towns hang on the wall, where sports jerseys are put on display along with an unwavering devotion to a certain Canadian Football League franchise.
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Catherine Durand honorée aux Prix de la musique folk
Lundi 23 novembre 2009
La Presse
Pour son album Coeurs migratoires, Catherine Durand a remporté le prix de l'auteur compositeur francophone de l'année à la cinquième présentation des Prix de musique folk canadienne, samedi soir à Ottawa.
Karim Saada, Québécois d'origine algérienne, a gagné le prix de l'album de musique du monde de l'année/solo avec l'album La danse de l'exilé. La catégorie musique du monde de l'année/groupe a été remportée par le duo formé du joueur de kora d'origine malienne Mansa Sissoko (de Québec) et du banjoïste torontois Jayme Stone. Plus tôt cette année, le même album a raflé un prix Juno dans la catégorie musique du monde.
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Iqaluit needs performing arts centre, advocates say
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
CBC News
Two members of Iqaluit's arts scene are teaming up to help create Nunavut's first performing arts centre.
Singer-songwriter Ellen Hamilton and Heather Daley, executive director of the annual Alianait Arts Festival, have organized a planning committee to lobby the territorial government to build a performing arts facility.
They are urging others in Iqaluit to join the committee, which is to hold its first meeting next week.
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Opinion/Editorial
There's No Place Like Home
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Theresa Tedesco, Financial Post
Let's face it, Canada's major banks are too innately conservative to ever become truly global players.
After all, if there was ever an opportunity to wield their clout in the international marketplace, it's been during the past year's financial crisis that has claimed among its casualites some of the world's most venerable financial institutions.
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Libre opinion — Un juste prix pour CBC/Radio-Canada
Mardi 24 novembre 2009
Hubert T. Lacroix, La Presse
Les audiences du CRTC sur l'avenir du modèle de financement de la télévision généraliste ont donné lieu à des échanges musclés la semaine dernière. Certains soutiennent que CBC/Radio-Canada ne devrait pas profiter d'un éventuel régime de négociation de la juste valeur de ses propres signaux de télévision parce qu'elle reçoit plus d'un milliard de dollars du gouvernement.
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Grab G20 opportunity
Friday, November 20, 2009
Toronto Star
Rather than wringing our hands about potential traffic disruptions, we should be seizing the opportunity to host the Group of 20 economic summit next year. It would be a chance to showcase our city to the world as both a financial centre and a tourist destination.
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