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Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with China's President Hu Jintao before a gala dinner at the APEC summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, Nov. 18. The leaders talked politics and economic issues, and Harper reportedly pressed the case of Huseyin Celil, a Chinese-Canadian imprisoned in China on terrorism charges. Before meeting with the Chinese President, Harper said he wouldn't "sell out" on human rights even if it meant sacrificing a meeting that could be good for business. |
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Two First Nations
have agreed to drop a lawsuit that claimed ownership of the property that houses the
108-year-old B.C. legislature building in Victoria in exchange for a $31.5 million
settlement, the Canadian Press reported Nov. 18. It said that the Songhees and
Esquimalt First Nations will receive the money in a deal that settles the ownership issue
outside of court. An initialling ceremony held inside the legislature building was
attended by officials including Federal Indian Affairs MInister Jim Prentice, CP reported.
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Ottawans voted for change in the mayoral election Nov. 13, choosing millionaire political newcomer, Larry O'Brien, founder of an Ottawa hi-tech company. O'Brien, swept away incumbent Bob Chiarelli by taking 47 per cent of the popular vote. Former city councillor Alex Munter won 36 per cent of the vote. Chiarelli's loss ended nine years at Ottawa's helm — including two terms as mayor of the nation's capital and one term as the regional chair of Ottawa-Carleton. |
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John Watson, the president and CEO of Care Canada, says Canada has made a fatal mistake by blurring the line between its military and humanitarian aid in Afghanistan. Watson said Nov. 18 that Canada has made it next to impossible for non-governmental organizations to help those desperately in need in the war-torn southern region, including Kandahar, the Canadian Press reported. "That horse has bolted, I am afraid. Too much time has passed," said Watson in a phone interview with CP from Kabul, the Afghan capital. "Even if we were invited to go into Kandahar, I don't think we would do it at this time. We already have our hands full in other hot-spots around the world," he said. |