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Montevideo, May 31st 2025 - 11:47 UTC

Tag: Canada

  • Monday, August 3rd 2015 - 08:16 UTC

    Canada will hold elections next October; conservatives could lose office

    PM Harper says only he can be trusted to run an economy struggling to cope with after-effects of a global economic slowdown and a plunge in the price of oil

    Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called a parliamentary election for Oct. 19, kicking off a marathon 11-week campaign likely to focus on a stubbornly sluggish economy and his decade in power. Polls indicate Harper's right-of-center Conservative Party, which has been in office since 2006, could well lose its majority in the House of Commons.

  • Wednesday, July 1st 2015 - 02:57 UTC

    US opens its market to Argentine fresh beef imports; lemons still pending

    “This is the favorable and successful result of an arduous fight in international relationships and technical and agricultural questions,” Kicillof said

    Argentina announced that the United States APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) has allowed fresh beef imports from Argentina, lifting a 15-year ban which Buenos Aires had always considered 'unjustified' and bluntly 'protectionist' and as such had claimed before the WTO. In the same vein Argentina also anticipated it expected a similar decision from the US regarding Argentine lemons.

  • Tuesday, June 2nd 2015 - 06:01 UTC

    Canadian tobacco companies ordered to pay 12bn dollars for failing to warn health risks

    Imperial Tobacco, Rothmans Benson & Hedges and JTI-MacDonald vowed to appeal against the decision. The class-action lawsuits were filed in 1998

    A Canadian court has ordered three tobacco companies to pay 15.5bn Canadian dollars ($12bn), the largest award for damages in the country's history. The plaintiffs were Quebec smokers who said the firms failed to warn them of health risks associated with smoking.

  • Tuesday, March 3rd 2015 - 23:08 UTC

    The entire Great Lakes almost completely covered with ice

    According to NOAA data, the Great Lakes ice coverage is up over 3%. This time last year, there was 85.4% coverage

    The entire Great Lakes, shared by Canada and the United States is at 88.8% ice coverage, with the highest totals coming from Lake Huron and Lake Erie at about 96% ice coverage according to Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, part of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA.

  • Wednesday, February 18th 2015 - 19:28 UTC

    Canada identifies origin of mad cow disease case; Korea bans Canadian beef

    “They’ve got the birth farm, which is important,” Masswohl said. “I understand that everything is in Alberta.”

    The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association says a beef breeding cow found with mad cow disease on an Alberta farm was born in the province at a different farm. Association spokesman John Masswohl says the Canadian Food Inspection Agency identified the birth farm. It is the first case reported since 2011. South Korea announced it was banning Canadian beef.

  • Saturday, January 24th 2015 - 05:44 UTC

    UK, US and Canada welcome elections announcement by Guyanese president

    President Ramotar’s announced national elections will be held in Guyana on 11 May, 'a critical first-step towards the return of a fully functioning Parliament'

    The United States of America, Canada, and the United Kingdom have welcomed Guyana's President Ramotar’s announcement that national and regional elections will be held in Guyana on May 11, 2015. Elections are a critical first-step towards the return of a fully functioning Parliament.

  • Wednesday, December 3rd 2014 - 08:37 UTC

    Falklands' delegation in Canada receives full support for self determination

    The Falklands delegation had government and private sector representatives. <br /> (L to R) Phyl Richards, Lewis Clifton, John Baird (FM Canada), Mike Summers, Tom Clarence Smith and David Blockley

    Canada openly supported Falkland Islands' people right to self determination, backed Canadian companies working in the Islands and confirmed ongoing political and trade assurances. The message was clearly conveyed to a high level Falklands' government and private sector during their recent visit to Canadian capital Ottawa and tour of several provinces.

  • Friday, September 12th 2014 - 03:58 UTC

    Canadian team locates English vessels lost in 1845 in the Northwest Passage

    PM Harper announced one of Canada's greatest mysteries has been solved with the discovery of one of the two ships belonging to the Franklin Expedition

    After more than 160 years of searching to understand the fate of English explorer Sir John Franklin’s fabled arctic voyage, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a Canadian team has located one of Franklin’s historic ships and solved one of the world’s greatest archaeological mysteries, according to reports from Parks Canada.

  • Saturday, April 12th 2014 - 08:06 UTC

    Peruvian president Humala honoured as “Statesman of the Year” in Canada

    Humala meets Prime Minister Harper: 'Canada a strategic partner' for Peru

    Peruvian President Ollanta Humala at the end of his three day visit to Canada was honoured in Toronto by the Canadian Council of the Americas with the “Statesman of the Year” annual award. On thanking the award President Humala said that Peru during this year is expected to expand over 5.5% while investment is set to increase by 8%.

  • Thursday, February 20th 2014 - 04:11 UTC

    North American partners meet to celebrate NAFTA 20 years, but the agenda has many frictions

    The three leaders pose for the family picture at Toluca

    US President Barack Obama joined the Mexican and Canadian leaders Wednesday for a North American summit focused on trade but marked by friction between the “three amigos”. Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto shook hands with Obama in an ornate state government palace in Toluca, near Mexico City, for private one-on-one talks before Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined them later.