With Chicago lawyer and top Democratic fundraiser David Jacobson rumoured to be President Barack Obama’s pick for the next U.S. ambassador to Canada, the president is coming under fire from critics who say he has abandoned a pledge to reward more career diplomats with plum foreign ambassadorships.
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May 30 (Bloomberg) — Former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush disagreed on the Cuban trade embargo and gay marriage, while showing camaraderie as they reflected on their White House tenures during a joint event in Canada.
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May 29 (Bloomberg) — Canadian stocks recorded the largest monthly gain in a decade as signs of a recovery in the global economy spurred the biggest commodity rally in 34 years, sending energy and metal producers higher.
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As President Obama visited Canada and flew across the Atlantic to the G20 Summit in London earlier this year, he was trying to figure out how to lessen the tensions from the “Buy America”…
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OTTAWA, May 27 (Reuters) – Canada’s official opposition leader, Michael Ignatieff, said on Wednesday it is getting very difficult to work with the minority Conservative government. Ignatieff cited three reasons — the need to do more on employment insurance, the need to move stimulus out the door faster and the fact that the fiscal situation was in what he called a freefall. Earlier this week …
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