Fossil fuels: Denmark getting rid of them, what can Canada learn from it ?

After more than a decade spent thinking about fossil fuels and climate change, Angela Carter was looking for a "beacon of hope" to inspire Canada with alternative visions for what an oil and gas-dependent society could become.

Carter, an energy transition specialist with the International Institute for Sustainable Development and associate professor of political science at the University of Waterloo, found that hope when Denmark made a landmark decision to cancel future permitting for oil and gas exploration in the North Sea in late 2020.

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G7` shadow of war and gloom hang over Japan's G7 meeting

The shadows of two previous, brutal wars — and the potential consequences of one raging in eastern Europe — hung over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he arrived Thursday in Japan for the opening of the G7 leaders summit.

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Canada: The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is calling interference activities by the Chinese government the "greatest strategic threat"

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) is calling foreign interference activities by the Chinese government the "greatest strategic threat to national security."

In a statement provided in French to CBC/Radio-Canada on Friday, a CSIS spokesperson said that this threat comes not from the "Chinese population" but from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which9 is deploying a strategy aimed at "geopolitical gains" on economic, technological, political and military fronts.

"To do so, it uses all the state powers at its disposal to carry out activities that directly threaten the national security and sovereignty of the country," said the unnamed spokesperson.

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Canada - Haïti relations: A two ship Canadian deployment including 90 navy sailors will soon arrive and disembark at Port-au-Prince.

About 90 Canadian navy sailors will soon be getting to know Port-au-Prince Bay as part of a two-ship deployment announced Thursday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the Bahamas.

Two Kingston-class coastal defence vessels, typically manned by a mix of regular force and reservists, will anchor off Haiti's mountainous capital city.

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Canada US Relations: Canada has long feared the Chaos of US politics

When the nation of Canada was founded in 1867, its people deliberately chose a form of government meant to avoid the mistakes and problems they saw in the U.S. government next door.

That helps explain why Canadian police used emergency powers to arrest hundreds of people and tow dozens of vehicles while ending the trucker protests in Ottawa, Canada’s capital.

Read more at: https://theconversation.com/canada-has-long-feared-the-chaos-of-us-politics-177208

China: Canadian broadcasting corporation closes down their offices in China

CBC says it ‘can’t get visas for journalists’ to work in China as permanent correspondents, prompting bureau closure.

Read more at: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/11/2/canadas-public-broadcaster-shutting-beijing-bureau

Canada-US relations: Canadiian industry minister in Washington, DC. says we need to decouple from China

Canada's industry minister was in Washington making a pitch for projects north of the border to access U.S. federal funding for critical minerals.

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Canada - German Cooperation: Scholz says Germany wants more natural gas from Canada but lacks infrastructure, business backing

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says he wants Canada to increase its shipments of liquefied natural gas to Europe but admits a lack of infrastructure and an unproven business case for the Canadian export stands in the way of any boost in supply.

Scholz also told CBC News that the war in Ukraine will not end until Russian President Vladimir Putin realizes that his strategy is destined to fail.

"We would really like Canada to export more (liquefied natural gas, LNG) to Europe," Scholz told host Vassy Kapelos on CBC News Network's Power & Politics Tuesday.

"We are creating the atmosphere for very direct talks between the business sectors of Canada and Germany [to see] If there is something which could be done now in this very crisis … but this is part of the follow-up between the businesspeople of the two countries."

Read more at: Scholz says Germany wants more natural gas from Canada but lacks infrastructure, business backing | CBC News

Germany and Canada hold energy supply talks

New German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his deputy, Economic Affairs and Climate Action Minister Robert Habeck, kicked off a three-day trip to Canada on Monday, seeking to arrange short-term gas-based energy solutions and to explore longer-term, cleaner options, such as green hydrogen. 

In a joint press conference in Montreal, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hailed his German counterpart Scholz as an "extremely important progressive voice," and expressed optimism about mutually beneficial business investments and cooperation defending Ukraine from Russian aggression.

Read more at: Germany and Canada hold energy supply talks | News | DW | 22.08.2022

Canada: Trudeau says he has no faith Russia will uphold deal to export Ukrainian grain

Servicemen of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic work to defuse a Ukrainian mine in the Mariupol Sea Port in April. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defence. Agreements signed Friday by Russia and Ukraine with the United Nations and Turkey clear the way to export Ukrainian grain through a Russian blockade of Black Sea ports. (The Associated Press)

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he's not convinced that Russia will hold up its end of a deal to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports to grain exports.

Russia and Ukraine signed separate agreements Friday with Turkey and the United Nations clearing the way to export millions of tonnes of desperately needed Ukrainian grain, as well as Russian grain and fertilizer — ending a wartime standoff that had threatened food security around the globe.

. Read more at: Trudeau says he has no faith Russia will uphold deal to export Ukrainian grain | CBC News

Canada: Massive Rogers outage snarling telecom, banking and government services continues

A massive outage at Rogers has brought down internet and cellular service across Canada, and has also interrupted government services and payment systems for businesses and individuals.

The outage began some time early Friday morning, and as of 5 p.m. ET had not been fixed.

The company does not have an estimate when the day-long outage will be fixed, said Kye Prigg, Rogers' senior vice-president of access networks and operations, on CBC's Power & Politics.

Read more at: Massive Rogers outage snarling telecom, banking and government services continues | CBC News

Canada: Air Canada Announces Major Reduction In Flights Due To Unprecedented Travel Chaos

Air Canada announced on Friday that it “is now making meaningful reductions to our schedule in July and August in order to reduce passenger volumes and flows to a level we believe the air transport system can accommodate.” These reductions will significantly impact summer travel in July and August.

The announcement was in response to growing national and international news reports that put Air Canada’s record of flight cancellations and delays among some of the worst on record in the world currently.

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Canada: Omicron infections have peaked nationally, Canada's top doctor says - by John Paul Tasker

Canada's chief public health officer said Friday that cases of the Omicron variant have peaked nationwide and the number of new infections has dropped significantly over the past week.

Canada's molecular testing system has been hampered by constrained capacity and staffing issues that have made PCR tests unavailable to many. Dr. Theresa Tam pointed to other indicators — daily case counts, test positivity rates and wastewater surveillance trends — that she said suggest Canada is now through the worst of the Omicron wave.

But the number of people in hospitals with COVID-19 is still at a record high, putting Canada's health care system under severe strain.

Read more at: Omicron infections have peaked nationally, Canada's top doctor says | CBC News

Canada-US Relations: Canada threatens U.S. with tariffs, partial suspension of CUSMA over electric vehicle tax credit

Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has written to top U.S. senators threatening to suspend parts of the CUSMA trade agreement and impose tariffs on American goods unless U.S. officials back away from a proposed tax credit for American-built electric vehicles. "We are deeply concerned that certain provisions of the electric vehicle tax credits as proposed in the Build Back Better Act violate the United States' obligations under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement," Freeland and International Trade Minister Mary Ng say in the letter.

Read more at: Canada threatens U.S. with tariffs, partial suspension of CUSMA over electric vehicle tax credit | CBC News

Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Monday

Unless a country seals itself off from the entire world, travel bans to prevent the importation of coronavirus variants are ineffective, says Shabir Madhi, dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa.

At a news conference Monday, Quebec's Public Health Director Dr. Horacio Arruda said tests revealed the variant in a woman who had recently returned from Nigeria.

The case was discovered after 115 people in the province who had travelled to southern African countries were asked to take a new COVID-19 test and isolate, in accordance with new federal government rules announced Friday, Health Minister Christian Dubé said.

Read more at: Coronavirus: What's happening in Canada and around the world on Monday | CBC News

Canada: The Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to travel to the Netherlands, Italy, and the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced he will travel to Europe for a bilateral visit to the Netherlands before participating in the Group of Twenty (G20) Leaders’ Summit in Italy and the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in the United Kingdom.

The Prime Minister will travel to The Hague, the Netherlands on October 29, 2021 where he will meet with Prime Minister Mark Rutte and other Dutch representatives to discuss both countries’ shared priorities and further the strong ties between Canada and the Netherlands.

Read more at: Prime Minister to travel to the Netherlands, Italy, and the United Kingdom | Prime Minister of Canada

Global Rankings: Best Countries Rankings - Canada Ranks No. 1 in 2021 - by Elliott Davis

Ranked first in both the Quality of Life and Social Purpose subrankings, meaning that it is seen as a stable and safe society in which individuals can develop and prosper, and is open, fair and equitable. Most of the countries that ranked highest for 2021 come from Western Europe. But Australia, New Zealand and Japan – which is ranked No. 2 overall – also appeared in the top 10.

The Top 10 Countries in the World include:

1. Canada 2. Japan 3. Germany 4. Switzerland 5. Australia 6. United States 7. New Zealand 8. United Kingdom 9. Sweden 10. Netherlands

Read more at: U.S. News Releases 2021 Best Countries Rankings | Best Countries | US News

Turkey to declare US, 9 other ambassadors ‘persona non grata’ after call for release of jailed opposition figure – says President ErdoganErdogan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he instructed the foreign minister to declare 10 ambassadors, including Washington’s envoy, ‘persona non grata’ over a rare joint statement urging release of a jailed opposition figure.

“I gave the necessary instructions to our foreign minister, I said that you will handle the denunciation of the 10 ambassadors as soon as possible,” Erdogan said.

Read more at: Turkey to declare US, 9 other ambassadors ‘persona non grata’ after call for release of jailed opposition figure – Erdogan — RT World News

Coronavirus digest: US to reopen land borders from November

The United States is set to reopen its land borders to fully vaccinated travelers from Canada in arly November, lawmakers have announced.

The US has also decided to allow fully vaccinated travelers from Mexico to enter the country for nonessential travel through all ports of entry, the office of New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand said.

Vehicle, rail and ferry travel between the US and Canada, and the US and Mexico, has been largely restricted to essential travel, such as trade, since March 2020.

Read more at: Coronavirus digest: US to reopen land borders from November | News | DW | 13.10.2021

Canada: Trudeau made pushing his agenda more complicated with failed bid for majority

The Liberal leader came up short trying to secure the majority mandate he wanted in forcing this early election five weeks ago, arguing Canadians needed a say in how Canada faces the challenges of the future.

What Canadians told him is that they liked the last minority government. They returned a near replica of the results in 2019, when the Liberals won 157 seats and the Conservatives took 121

Read more at: Trudeau made pushing his agenda more complicated with failed bid for majority | CBC News