Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and U.S. Secretary State John Kerry bet a case of beer on the World Women’s Hockey Championship. Baird had a case of Molson Canadian on the line; Kerry had a case of Sam Adams. Well, the U.S. beat Canada earlier this week and while Baird is sending a case of Canadian to Kerry, he’s also sending a case of Beau’s beer to the U.S. embassy staff in Ottawa. Beau’s is a Read more…
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In the West, the decline of politics
Jonathan Hopkin writing at ForeignAffairs.com
It would be unwise to dismiss the election results as yet another Italian anomaly. All across Europe, membership of political parties is at its lowest level since the World War II. Voters are also less loyal than ever to traditional parties — they are more likely to switch votes to a rival party or an entirely new one. Only days after Grillos triumph, the UK Independence Party, which campaigns for British withdrawal from the EU, came to within 2,000 votes of winning a by-election held to replace a disgraced Liberal Democrat MP, pushing the ruling Conservatives into third place. And the success of the Pirate Party in Sweden, the anti-Islam party led by Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, and more established populist parties such as the French Front National, confirm that Italy is far from being an outlier.
via Italy Did Not Just Send in The Clowns | Foreign Affairs.
PM, Official Opposition (Rabble.ca) react to Chavez death
CARACAS, Venezuela – The hearse carrying the coffin of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez makes its way to the Military Academy amid thousands of supporters, on March 6, 2013. (AFP PHOTO/Juan Barreto)
Reaction in Ottawa to the death of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper in an e-mail statement: Read more…
Canadian MPs meet Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi
(Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade / Click on picture for bigger version)
The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade has just released some photos of a recent trip by a Canadian Parliamentary delegation to Burma and here’s a neat one, as the group meets one of the world’s most famous women, Aung San Suu Kyi.
DFAIT did not provide the names of everyone in this photo but I know a few of them so here’s my best guess at who’s who. Read more…
Canada provides cash for help small-scale farmers in Nicaragua
LEON, Nicaragua – Diane Ablonczy (left), Canada’s Minister of State of Foreign Affairs (Americas and Consular Affairs), visits a women’s cooperative farm in rural Nicaragua. (Photo distributed by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade)
The federal government today announced it was providing $8.1 million to a development project in Nicaragua, a project the government says will help boost food production by small-scale farmers. Read more…
