Topic: Canada
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday declared a "major disaster" in parts of North Carolina and New York following last weekend's Hurricane Irene, which unleashed massive flooding.The move will make federal funding available for relief efforts in both hard-hit states.The hurricane petered ...
Canada's watershed election which gave Conservatives their long-coveted majority and relegated the once-mighty Liberals to the political margins, was cheered by the country's mainstream press on Tuesday."Canada awoke this morning on the right side of history," The Toronto Sun wrote, while the ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's federal election on Monday is too close to call, raising the prospect of a potentially destabilizing political battle between the ruling Conservatives and opposition parties.Polls show the Conservatives are set to win the most seats in the 308-seat ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's minority Conservative government looks set to fall on Friday over charges of waste and sleaze, bringing a May election that Prime Minister Stephen Harper says could hurt one of the best-performing industrialized economies.The three opposition parties, with a ...
According to the plan detailed by CBC, up to 750 trainers and at least 200 support staff would work outside the combat zone at a training academy or large training facility for Afghan soldiers and police officers.On Sunday, Defense Minister Peter MacKay ...
Nationalism in Canada, as in all countries, focuses on the particular characteristics, origins, history, people, and positive aspects of the country. It is believed that involvement in the war helped confirm to the world, and the Canadian people that Canada was a ...
The importance of Senators in Canada is undeniable. Equalization of the country is an unconditionally contributing factor in Canada. This may not necessary be entirely negative, as this provides fully inquired arrangements to Canada. If the government does not renew the Senate ...
But Ignatieff, reacting to Defence Minister Peter MacKay's comments on Sunday that Canada was "considering" keeping troops in the war-ravaged nation beyond its parliamentary-mandated mid-2011 exit, kept mum about the Liberals' position on the matter."I have nothing to say because there isn't ...
Tupper was born to Baptist pastor Charles Tupper and his wife, Miriam Lockhart, in 1821 in Amherst, Nova Scotia . " The Nova Scotian railway would be but a part in a greater whole, a great Intercolonial Railway linking Nova Scotia, New ...
Point Roberts, Washington is one odd-ball location for an American community. Point Roberts is an unincorporated U.S. Community located in Whatcom County attached to the Canadian mainland, not the US mainland.First established as part of the Oregon Country by the United States ...
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