Canada
bloomberg.com 1/11/2009 — Obama to Visit Canada in First International Trip as President By Edwin Chen Jan. 11 (Bloomberg) -- President-elect Barack Obama will visit Canada in his first international trip as president, his transition office said. Obama “looks forward to his ...

Oh, Canada!
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 2/14/2009 — A Canadian reader writes: Drum and Zakaria are busy applauding us Canadians for our financial foresight. While it is true that the relative lack of leverage in the financial system was a good thing, it is also true that the Canadian economy tends ...

The Canada Trip
yglesias.thinkprogress.org 2/19/2009 — I’ve been meaning to comment on Barack Obama’s visit to Canada. Americans tend not to recognize it, but our relationship with Canada is our most important bilateral relationship. Not only is Canada very high on the list of our trade ...

Go, Canada!
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Obama's Canada Trip: Can He Undo Bush's Damage?
tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2009: 2/18/2009 — OTTAWA -- When then-U.S. President George W. Bush took office in 2001, he chose Mexico instead of Canada for his first foreign visit, and relations with Canada suffered throughout his presidency. To heap the decline of Canada-U.S. relations entirely at the feet of his decision to go ...

Service and country
toyoufromfailinghands.blogspot.com 12/3/2008 — In a message to two members of Parliament - one Conservative and one Liberal - a retired Vice-Admiral has written (posted with permission): Gentlemen, As you both may be aware I contributed financially towards your recent re-election - not because of ...

Auto abyss
damianpenny.com 3/4/2009 — Worser and worser. Canada (and Ford US): GM Canada loses sales crown February marked the end of an era in the Canadian automotive market as General Motors of Canada Ltd. was knocked out of top spot in sales. GM sank to third place, two industry sources said Tuesday, behind Chrysler ...

Oh Canada! ... Role-Reversal in North America?
brusselsjournal.com 5/19/2009 — Stereotypes are often rooted in some current or past reality, but they can also become outdated.  While the USA and Japan have for a long time been regarded as small-government countries, among industrial countries, Canada has long been ...

Will Canada see its first white Christmas since '71?
ctv.ca 12/22/2008 — The first day of winter brought wind-chill warnings, snow and a bevy of storms to cities across Canada on Sunday, potentially laying the groundwork for the first cross-country white Christmas in nearly four decades.

Wormtongues
canuckjihad.wordpress.com 1/15/2009 — ~ NOBODY LIKES BAD NEWS, unless it’s for somebody else. Added to that, we hear what we want to hear. The bad news is, the Jihadis and Sharia Supremacists are in Canada; they are organized; they are pumping money and support to international ...

Olmert's boast on U.N. Gaza vote is 'completely not true,' U.S. says — L.A. Times - Politics 1/14/2009
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he persuaded Bush to reverse a vote on a Gaza cease-fire resolution. But the State Department says Condoleezza Rice already had decided to abstain. >  ...

Bin Laden message: Stop 'aggression' against Gaza — CNN Political Ticker 1/14/2009
(CNN) — Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden has apparently released a new audio message calling for a jihad, or holy war, against Israel for its Gaza campaign. The message is "an invitation" from bin Laden to take part in "jihad to stop the ...

UN says cholera has killed 2,106 in Zimbabwe (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/14/2009
AP - The United Nations says the death toll from Zimbabwe's cholera outbreak has risen to 2,106.

Iraq ratifies treaty banning chemical weapons (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/14/2009
AP - Iraq has given the United Nations its ratification of the treaty banning chemical weapons, a move welcomed by the U.N. chief as a demonstration of the country's commitment to disarmament and nonproliferation.

UN finds 217 sex abuse claims against blue helmets (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 1/14/2009
AP - A United Nations probe collected 217 allegations of abuse of girls and women by peacekeepers in eastern Congo, from sex with teenagers in the back room of a liquor store to threats of "hacking" victims for cooperating with investigators.