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04 December 2007 -- Iran has expelled the Canadian ambassador to Tehran after Ottawa refused to accept Iran's proposed envoys to Canada.

Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Maxime Bernier said Monday the decision to oust the ambassador was entirely unjustifiable.

Bernier said Canada and Iran had tried to agree on an exchange of ambassadors, but Ottawa has been unable to accept the candidates submitted by Tehran.

Neither side offered any explanation for the disagreement.    » read more »

Ottawa, Canada - 11/21/2007 - The government of Canada announced one of the biggest land conservation agreements in North American history, by ordering the protection of 25.5 million acres in the heart of the Canadian Boreal Forest, an area approximately equal in size to 11 Yellowstone National Parks. The government issued this land management move at an event hosted by the Canadian Boreal Initiative.

The lands to be protected include:    » read more »

20 November 2007 -- The Canadian province of British Colombia says it will launch a public investigation into the killing of a Polish immigrant shot by a Taser stun gun at Vancouver's airport.

The government said Monday the probe would look at Robert Dziekanski's death, and the use of Taser guns by police.

Taser guns disable people through the use of high voltage electricity.

Video released last week showed police using stun guns on Dziekanski 46 seconds after they confronted him in a baggage retrieval area. He died at the airport.    » read more »

18 November 2007 -- Afghan security officials say Taliban militants have hanged five policeman in southern Afghanistan as a public warning to others.

The Uruzgan province police chief, Juma Gul Himat, describing the incident Sunday, said the five policemen had been abducted two months ago and were mutilated before being killed and their bodies hung from trees.    » read more »

Quebec Firefighters Delayed At Border While Responding To Blaze In Rouses Point

November 14, 2007 -- Two days after Quebec firefighters were delayed crossing the U.S.-Canadian border while responding to a fire a few miles away in Rouses Point, NY, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer today called on the U.S. Customs and Border Protection to employ a regular system that would allow first-responders from the two countries to swiftly cross the border so they can offer mutual assistance.    » read more »

14 November 2007 -- Canada says it will tighten its existing sanctions against Burma because of the crackdown on pro-democracy activists by the country's military rulers.

Announcing the action Wednesday, Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier said there is no more room for compromise with what he called the "odious regime" in Burma.

The new sanctions include a ban on Canadian investment, trade and transfer of technical data to Burma.

The measures are seen as largely symbolic since total trade between Canada and Burma sank to $9 million last year.

Source: VOA News

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12 November 2007 -- As the price of oil soars on world markets and demand for energy grows, energy companies are looking at so-called unconventional sources such as Canada's oil sands and the vast deposits of oil shale in the Rocky Mountain states. Geologists say half of the world's known oil shale lies deep underground in western Colorado, eastern Utah and southern Wyoming, amounting to more than one trillion barrels of potential oil. But this is rock, not liquid, and the very expensive trick is to convert it to useable liquid fuel.    » read more »

Governor joins other Southeastern Governors and Canadian Provincial Premiers in New Business Alliance

November 08, 2007 -- ATLANTA – Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue will lead a state delegation to Montréal, Québec, for the historic chartering of the Southeastern United States-Canada Alliance (SEUS-Canada) on November 15-16. Governor Perdue will join governors from other Southeastern states, premiers from eastern and central Canadian provinces, U.S.    » read more »

Nov. 8, 2007 -- Colorado Governor Bill Ritter departs next week for a multi-day economic-development trade mission to Canada, a visit that will focus on the energy and bioscience industries. In his first trade visit to another country, Gov. Ritter will be stopping in Calgary, Toronto and Edmonton. Canada is Colorado's top export trading partner and one of Colorado's leading investors.    » read more »

Trial of Canadian Youth Should Be Transferred to Federal Court

(Washington, DC, November 5, 2007) – Ad hoc US military commission rules for the trial of Omar Ahmed Khadr, the 21-year-old Canadian who was been detained at Guantanamo since he was 15, are grossly unfair, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called for Khadr’s trial to be moved to federal court.    » read more »

October 23, 2007 -- Salem - Oregon Governor Kulongoski and British Columbia Premier Gordon Campbell today signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” to establish partnership between the two governments to work together for climate and ocean protections.

As part of the memorandum, Oregon and British Columbia agree that joint action is needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and that many of these actions can have significant economic and environmental benefits for British Columbia and Oregon.    » read more »

Record-Breaking 27 Metric Tonnes of Meat Confiscated

Oct. 11, 2007 -- Environment Canada's Wildlife Enforcement Division along with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries Service officers have dismantled a major smuggling organization of queen conch meat, an internationally protected endangered species.    » read more »

October 12, 2007 -- "As neighbors, New York and Quebec have a long-standing and unique relationship. The issues that we face, such as security, energy and the environment, transcend national borders. As such, we are deeply committed to working together to find innovative solutions to current challenges and those that lie ahead.

Protecting our shared border is of paramount importance to both New York and Quebec. We will continue to work together to safeguard the integrity of our border, to promote greater public safety and to bolster cross-border trade.    » read more »

04 October 2007 -- Concerns with smuggling and terrorism have led to heightened security along U.S borders. Mike O'Sullivan reports from Seattle.

The U.S. border with Canada, 6,400 kilometers from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans, has been described as the world's longest undefended international boundary.

The U.S. southern border with Mexico has hundreds of kilometers of high fencing, with more planned, but there is little to mark parts of the U.S. northern border.

A small fence is all that separates the U.S. town of Blaine, Washington, from a Canadian highway.    » read more »