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  • The Prime Minister announces significant support for Africa and La Francophonie at the XVI Summit of La Francophonie

    CANADA, 2016/11/28 While attending the XVI Summit of La Francophonie in Madagascar, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau today announced that the Government of Canada will provide $112.8 million for international aid projects that will benefit several African nations and Haiti. This funding will contribute to projects that aim to fight climate change, empower women, and protect their rights. It will as well be used to stimulate economic increase, which will create job opportunities for young people and women, and to counter terrorism and prevent radicalization.

  • Liberal chief Justin Trudeau, 43, takes office with a gender-balanced cabinet

    CANADA, 2015/11/09 Trudeau, 43, follows in the footsteps of his late father, Pierre Trudeau, who held the office for nearly 16 years. Just next being sworn in, Trudeau announced his Cabinet, a group of ministers divided evenly between men and women. The new ministers, who are mostly aged between 35 and 50, took their oaths in the bilingual ceremony. Justin Trudeau was sworn in Wednesday as Canada's prime minister, ending 10 years of Conservative policy. Trudeau led his Liberal Party to a commanding victory in parliamentary elections last month, taking 184 seats compared with 99 for Stephen Harper's Conservative Party.

  • Trudeau heir fulfills great expectations as Liberals triumph in Canada

    CANADA, 2015/10/23 Justin Trudeau led his Liberal Party to a resounding election victory on Monday, following in the footsteps of his storied father to become Canada’s next prime minister. Trudeau was just four months old at the same time as again US president Richard Nixon predicted his destiny at a national dinner in Ottawa in 1972. "Tonight we'll dispense with the formalities. I'd like to toast the next prime minister of Canada: to Justin Pierre Trudeau," Nixon told diners, part them the toddler’s father and again Canadian leader, Pierre Trudeau. Forty-three years later, the estimate proved right as the scion of the Trudeau dynasty carried his Liberal Party to power in parliamentary elections, gaining an outright majority of seats and ousting the ruling Conservatives.

  • The Arctic eight-member Council has accepted China and India as ‘observer states’

    CHINA, 2013/05/17 The legally-binding cooperation transaction is aimed at improving procedures in response to oil spills. Canada Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, who started a two-year mandate as chair of the council, said Ottawa is as well launching marine pollution prevention work as part of efforts to mitigating impacts in the Arctic region. New emerging powers including China and India have been accepted as “observer” states in the eight-nation Arctic Council and a new deal was signed to improve oil spill response to safeguard the fragile eco-system of the region, as Canada begun its chairmanship.

  • G-7 smoothes divisions, agrees on currency policy

    FRANCE, 2013/05/13 G-7 finance ministers and central bank governors as well pledged Saturday their commitment to tackling tax evasion on the second of two days of talks in the English countryside, British Finance Minister George Osborne said. The G-7 additionally vowed not to intentionally set out to weaken currencies, next the yen on Friday hit its lowest point against the dollar in additional than four years. 
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