bloomberg.com - 1/11/2009
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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 visit to Canada,” said Brooke Anderson , a ...
walt.foreignpolicy.com - 1/8/2009
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Courtesy of Philip Weiss's blog, here is another
thought experiment from New America Foundation's Daniel Levy. Note:
it's not a transcript; it is Weiss's summary of a portion of a conference call that Levy conducted two days ago: [Levy] said: We all ...
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Thought experiments (one last time) and a reply to David ...
thestar.com - 1/14/2009
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Bruce Campion-Smith Les Whittington OTTAWA BUREAU OTTAWA–Canada stood
alone before a United Nations human rights council yesterday,
the only one among 47 nations to oppose a motion condemning the Israeli military offensive in Gaza. The vote before the ...
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Canada | Canada votes alone for Israel
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Obama to Visit Canada in First International Trip as President
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... 1989, the first year the two countries implemented an accord that became the North American Free Trade Agreement, or Nafta, when Mexico joined in 1994. Obama said during the Democratic primary campaign that he wanted to renegotiate Nafta to include more protection for U.S. workers. He has since softened that position. Anderson said no date for the trip has been set. The offices of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Obama didnt reveal the agenda for their meeting. Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082 ...
Obama talks Mexico today, Canada soon. And the new dog nears
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Aides to President-elect Barack Obama confirmed that he will meet today in Washington with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and will make his first foreign trip as president to Canada on an as-yet-unannounced date.
The moves continue a tradition of at least acknowledging the importance of two of the United States' contiguous neighbors early in a new administration, although the U.S. looms far larger in the minds and economies of Canada and Mexico than vice versa. Obama was wildly popular especially in Canada, where polls showed he could get elected there. (See fake border sign ...
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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 ...
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Oh Canada! ... Role-Reversal in North America?
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and Japan
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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.
Obama: Afghanistan 'still winnable'
swamppolitics.com 2/18/2009 — by Mark Silva
"Afghanistan is still winnable,'' President Barack Obama says, "in the sense of our ability to ensure that it is not a launching pad for attacks against North America.
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Debunking Canadian Health Care Myths
commondreams.org 6/7/2009 — by Rhonda Hackett As a Canadian living in the United
States for the past 17 years, I am frequently asked by Americans and
Canadians alike to declare one health care system as the better one. Often I'll avoid answering, regardless of the ...
An open letter
the-reaction.blogspot.com 3/28/2009 — By Grace To the American media, commentators/pundits and politicians: The United States and Canada are neighbours, each others' closest allies and biggest trading partners. And hey, we both know that we make fun of each other once in a while - or ...
The Company We Keep
transmontanus.blogspot.com 3/20/2009 — George Galloway, the British MP who has just now been reportedly denied entry to Canada, is a petty and notoriously corrupt streetcorner demagogue who moonlights as a scab for the journalist-jailing authoritarian regime in Tehran. He is perhaps the ...
Canada | Transcript: Obama-Harper press conference
thestar.com 2/20/2009 — English-language transcript of a news conference held Thursday, Feb. 19 by U.S. President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper, as released by the White House press secretary's office. PRESIDENT OBAMA: Hello, good afternoon. PRIME MINISTER ...
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