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RIP, dear cat

 'Thatcher Has Died' 
 —But Not That 
 Thatcher 

Canadian official's cat dies, setting off a diplomatic snafu

Nov 13, 09 10:39 AM CST
(Newser) - When a Canadian official's beloved cat died, he texted a friend with the sad news: "Thatcher has died." See where this is going? That friend happened to be at a diplomatic dinner, and next thing you know, word had spread lickety-split that Margaret Thatcher had passed away. Canadian... More »

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pets • Canada • Margaret Thatcher • Stephen Harper • cat

Analysis

 Canada to US: 
 Are We Still Friends? 

American protectionism worries our northern neighbor

Oct 8, 09 10:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Canada’s biggest problem now also happens to be its best friend: America. PM Stephen Harper once worried that Canada’s “special relationship” with the US had been lost under George W. Bush—and it hasn’t improved a bit under Obama, writes Luiza Ch. Savage in Macleans.... More »

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Canada • NAFTA • Stephen Harper • free trade • economic stimulus package • Canadian border • US-Canadian border • spy drones • Obama administration • President Obama

'Three Amigos' Summit May Not Be So Amicable

Canada, Mexico both angry about Obama protectionism

Aug 9, 09 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is headed to Guadalajara today for his first "Three Amigos" summit with the leaders of Canada and Mexico, but the meeting may be less than completely friendly. Trade and drug trafficking will dominate the agenda, and the leaders have some grievances they plan to press, reports Reuters.... More »

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Barack Obama • diplomacy • Mexico • Canada • NAFTA • Stephen Harper • Three Amigos • protectionism • protectionist trade measures • Felipe Calderón

 Adoring Canadians 
 Cheer Obama 

President receives warm welcome in the frost on first foreign trip

Feb 20, 09 5:53 AM CST
(Newser) - Barack Obama found a new world of fans north of the border yesterday. His first foreign trip as president was greeted by a rare wave of pro-American sentiment on the streets of Ottawa, reports the Los Angeles Times. Thousands of people stood for hours in the slush in front of... More »

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Barack Obama • Canada • Stephen Harper • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - President Obama and PM Stephen Harper today announced an environmental partnership between the US and Canada, the Globe and Mail reports. Harper spoke of a “clean energy dialogue” between top officials to “collaborate on the development of clean energy science and technology.” Said Obama, who was... More »

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climate change • environment • global warming • Canada • United States • press conference • NAFTA • Stephen Harper • prime minister • Obama administration • President Obama

 Brown Bags First Euro Call, 
 Visit From New President 

Obama rings Britain's Brown to discuss Afghanistan, economy

Jan 24, 09 7:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Gordon Brown was the proud recipient of Barack Obama's first European phone call as president, the Guardian reports. The two leaders spoke for 15 minutes and discussed the need to make Afghanistan a priority. Obama, whose first overseas calls as president were to Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli... More »

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Barack Obama • diplomacy • Mahmoud Abbas • Gordon Brown • Stephen Harper • Obama administration • President Obama

Canada Pledges $3.3B Aid for Automakers

Feds, Ontario grant emergency loans
for its subsidiaries

Dec 20, 08 2:12 PM CST
(Newser) - A day after President Bush offered a bailout to American automakers, Canada announced plans to follow suit. The federal and Ontario governments will grant GM and Chrysler’s Canadian subsidiaries $3.3 billion ($4 billion in Canadian dollars), the Globe and Mail reports. “We cannot afford either in the... More »

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Canada • Detroit • Stephen Harper • North America • Ontario • auto bailout

Canadian PM Buys Time With Parliament Shutdown

Opposition had been gearing up to replace Harper's Conservative government

Dec 4, 08 2:52 PM CST
(Newser) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper got permission today to close Canada’s Parliament until Jan. 26, avoiding a vote next week that would likely have forced him from power, the Globe and Mail reports. Harper’s Conservative government is under fire from a liberal coalition over inaction on the economic crisis.... More »

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Canada • no confidence • vote • Stephen Harper • Quebec • Stéphane Dion • Jack Layton • Canadian parliament • Governor-General

Canadian Opposition Moves to Sink Righty Gov't

Harper's Tories in rout weeks after re-election

Dec 1, 08 9:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Canada’s main opposition parties have reached an unprecedented deal to topple the Conservative government, only weeks after it won re-election, reports the Globe and Mail. PM Stephen Harper infuriated rivals by attempting to end public support for political parties under the veil of an economic stimulus bill. The Liberals,... More »

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Canada • Stephen Harper • New Democratic Party • Stéphane Dion • Canadian politics • coalition government • Canadian Liberal Party • Canadian parliament • Bloc Québécois • Michael Ignatieff

Freed Reporter Held in Cave Underground

But Canadian journalist says Afghan captors did not harm her

Nov 9, 08 8:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Canadian officials secured the release yesterday of a reporter who was kept in an underground cave in Afghanistan for a month, CNN reports. Melissa Fung said her abductors bound her hands and feet, but that she was never mistreated. Afghan authorities arrested three people in the case and are looking... More »

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Afghanistan • Canada • Hezbollah • kidnapping • Kabul • journalist • Stephen Harper • caves

Canada Returns Conservative Minority Government

Harper's party grabs more seats but still falls short of a majority

Oct 15, 08 2:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has been re-elected to form a minority government. Harper's Conservative party boosted the size of its minority in yesterday's Canadian election but fell a dozen seats short of a majority, Reuters reports. The opposition Liberals slumped to their lowest share of the popular vote in... More »

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Canada • Stephen Harper • New Democratic Party • Canadian politics • election • Canadian Conservative Party • Canadian Liberal Party • Canadian parliament

Canada Votes Amid Financial Upheaval

Harper leads, but global crisis clouds election's finish

Oct 14, 08 6:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - Canadians vote today in the country's third election in four years, and polls predict a second minority government for Stephen Harper, the Conservative prime minister. But while his Tories have led Stéphane Dion's Liberals throughout the campaign, the global financial crisis—during which Toronto's stock exchange has dropped 20%... More »

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Canada • Stephen Harper • New Democratic Party • Stéphane Dion • Canadian politics • Canadian Conservative Party • Canadian Liberal Party • Bloc Québécois

Canada Heads for an Early Election

PM set to dissolve parliament; snap poll likely on Oct. 14

Sep 2, 08 9:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Canadian parliament is set to be dissolved after the prime minister and opposition leader failed in their a final compromise attempt, reports the Globe and Mail. Stéphane Dion, the leader of the Liberals, told reporters PM Stephen Harper asked his party not to oppose any legislation for a... More »

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Canada • Stephen Harper • Stéphane Dion • Canadian politics • election • Canadian Conservative Party • Canadian Liberal Party

12 Deaths From Tainted Meat Cause Canadian Furor

Listeriosis in meat has left 12 dead; scores of products recalled

Aug 26, 08 3:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper says an unprecedented meat recall is proof that the government’s proposed inspection reforms are necessary, despite opposition accusations that the changes will actually undermine food safety, the Globe and Mail reports. Maple Leaf foods has issued a 220-product recall, following a listeriosis infection scandal... More »

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Canada • food safety • recall • Stephen Harper • listeriosis

Bush to Canadian PM: 'Yo, Harper!'

Commander-in-chief his ever-so-diplomatic self at G8 summit

Jul 7, 08 12:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Mixing Texas diplomacy with the high diplomacy of the G8 summit in Japan, President Bush showed off his characteristically casual behavior today by introducing Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to another leader with a "Yo, Harper!" Bush landed British PM Tony Blair in hot water at a 2006... More »

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Japan • Canada • G8 summit • Stephen Harper • George W. Bush

 Oh Napoleon: 
 Tiny Leaders Rule G8 

Five don't pass the 5'6'' mark

Jul 6, 08 1:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - The leaders at this week's G8 summit are all political big shots, but they're pretty diminutive face-to-face—five don't even make it past 5'6''. Russia's Dmitry Medvedev brings up the short end of the stick at 5'2'', and Canada's Stephen Harper is the only one to pass the 6' mark.... More »

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Angela Merkel • Nicolas Sarkozy • Group of Eight • height • Stephen Harper • Silvio Berlusconi • Dmitry Medvedev • Napolean Bonaparte • George W. Bush • Kim Yong Il • Josef Stalin

 Quebec City Celebrates 400th 

Officials pay tribute to Canada's 'most beautiful city,' weather notwithstanding

Jul 3, 08 5:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Canadians celebrated the 400th birthday of Quebec City today, the Toronto Globe and Mail reports. In a rain-drenched ceremony, Prime Minister Stephen Harper praised the adventurous Quebecois spirit and the city—“the most beautiful city in Canada, the most enchanting"—where explorer Samuel de Champlain landed on July... More »

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Canada • birthday • Stephen Harper • birthday party • celebration • Quebec • Samuel de Champlain

OPINION

Canada Could Hurt Firms It Tries to 'Protect'

Blocking US purchase of space division is 'significant risk'

Jun 17, 08 3:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - A move last month by the Canadian government to block the country's top space-tech firm from selling one of its divisions to a US buyer illustrates a tricky balancing act, Christopher Sands writes in the American: How far should Ottawa go to appease nationalist sentiment if it eats into economic... More »

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aerospace • Canada • business • foreign investment • Stephen Harper • Defense Industry • free trade • protectionism • MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates

 Canada Apologizes
 to Indigenous Groups 

 Ottawa admits abuse of native cultures

Jun 12, 08 4:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - Canada formally apologized to its indigenous peoples yesterday for forcing children to attend government-run schools where they were often sexually and physically abused. Prime Minister Stephen Harper read the apology in Parliament, calling the forced assimilation a "sad chapter" in the nation's history that damaged several generations, the Globe ... More »

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Canada • sexual abuse • House of Commons • Stephen Harper • compensation • Inuit • Assembly of First Nations • residential schools • physical abuse • Metis • First Nations • assimilation

Linchpin in 'NAFTA-Gate'
to Step Down

Canadian PM's chief
of staff linked to leaks about Obama talks

May 22, 08 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ian Brodie, chief of staff to Canada's prime minister and the key figure in the "NAFTA-gate" scandal, will step down by summer, the Globe and Mail reports. Brodie, the architect of the Conservative Party's victory in 2006 elections, is under investigation in leaks that clouded the Democratic primary in... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Canada • NAFTA • Stephen Harper • Canadian Conservative Party • NAFTA-gate • Ian Brodie

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