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Canadian Affairs

Sep 28, 2008: Ramesh Thakur: 'Why Asia Should Matter to Canadian Voters'
Comments: 0 | Categories: Canadian Affairs , Opinion & Analysis
Ramesh Thakur, "foundation director of the Balsillie School of International Affairs and distinguished fellow at the Center for International Governance Innovation" think tank in Waterloo, Canada, contends in a September 28, 2008, "special to The Daily Yomiuri" of Japan, that:...

Mar 22, 2008: Why Doesn't Canada Have its Own Version of Barack Obama?
Comments: 2 | Categories: Canadian Affairs , U.S. Politics
Bob Hepburn, columnist at the Canadian newspaper The Toronto Star , asked in a March 20, 2008, column: Why doesn't Canada have its own version of Barack Obama? Many Canadians have been asking that question ever since Obama launched his...

Feb 14, 2008: Canada Holds Summit of Envoys With Afghan Portfolios
Comments: 0 | Categories: Canadian Affairs
"Canada's envoys to Washington, London, Kabul, Islamabad, Paris, The Hague, the United Nations, the European Union and NATO"... were "summoned to Ottawa [the Canadian capital] for a meeting at Foreign Affairs headquarters last Friday [February 8, 2008] to be briefed...

Aug 27, 2007: Is Canada's Stephen Harper Mimicking Australia's Foreign Policy?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Canadian Affairs
Canadian "Prime Minister Stephen Harper's trip to Australia next month will offer Canada's leader a chance to look back at what worked and what didn't with the person experts say is the real influence behind his approach to Canadian foreign...

Jul 14, 2007: Canadian Prime Minister To Visits Latin America, Caribbean
Comments: 0 | Categories: Canadian Affairs , Diplomatic Affairs
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper embarks July 15, 2007, "on an ambitious six-day visit to Latin America and the Caribbean, where he is expected to spell out his government's new foreign policy focus on the Americas," Alan Freeman reported July...

Oct 3, 2006: Is Canada Cheapening Its Diplomacy?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Canadian Affairs , Diplomatic Affairs
Lee Berthiaume, writing September 27, 2006, in Embassy, "Canada's foreign policy newsweekly," reported that Canada's "Conservative government will be holding back on new diplomatic posting overseas and consolidating some missions abroad as part of its announced $2 billion in federal...

Sep 15, 2006: Are Canadian Troops Paying A High Price For U.S. Afghan Policy?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Canadian Affairs
"Canadian troops are increasingly paying a heavy price for the Bush administration's ill-conceived policies since 2001 in violence-wracked Afghanistan," according to a September 14, 2006, article in the Ottawa Citizen of Canada. To read it, please see "We're cleaning up...

Aug 19, 2006: Oil, Gas, Etc. Prompt Canada To Bolster Claims To Arctic Waters
Comments: 0 | Categories: Canadian Affairs
Why is the Canadian military engaged in an exercise called "Operation Lancaster, which runs August 12, 2006 to August 25, 2006 "in Canada’s Eastern Arctic"? Operation Beaufort, an exercise that took place in the Western Arctic, ran August 9-13, 2006....

May 19, 2005: Why Canada's Paul Martin Survived 'Confidence' Vote
Comments: 0 | Categories: Canadian Affairs
Peter Milliken, speaker of the Canadian House of Common, saved the goverment of Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin on May 19, 2005 during a confidence vote. Why and How? "The rule is that in the event of a tie, the...