Ottawa (Canada) — The Index of Consumer Confidence rose 13.8 percentage points in January to a 23-month high, according to the Conference Board of Canada.
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Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika has succeeded Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi as the new chairman of the African Union (AU).
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Somali pirates have commandeered the sea-jacked vehicle carrier VC Asian Glory from the holding area off Hobyo towards the Seychelles in order to refuel one of the pirate mother-ships, which has run out of fuel.
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MV AL MAJAN started burning Friday and went under Sunday inside Somalia's main port. A cargo ship smuggling illegal charcoal from Kisimayo to Oman has caught fire, burned out and went partly under.
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“I believe the Canadian system generally does two things that should guide future work in this area. First, we must promote national regulation sufficiently strong to avoid repetition of the kind of crisis we experienced last year. We also believe that such national systems should be subject to international peer review in order to enhance transparency and reduce risks to the global economy. Anything less would expose every economy to needless risk. In fact, if inadequate regulation is not addressed, I believe the consequences could actually be worse than before this crisis”. Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper.
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Non-farm payroll employment fell by 33,800 in November, the result of small losses across a large number of industries. This decline followed two consecutive months of increases.
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NEWTOWN, Conn. - Sustained by the spending habits of the Gulf nations, the Middle East represents one of the world's most robust defense markets and should remain that way in the near future. The six countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) will account for roughly 60 percent of all defense expenditures made in the region in 2010.
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In 2007, about 1.65 million people aged 45 and over provided assistance or care to a parent or a mother- or father-in-law who suffered from a long-term health problem or physical limitation. Roughly 360,000 of these individuals, or 22%, provided help to a parent, even though the individual receiving care lived at least an hour away by car.
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Canada is the host today of the Ministerial Preparatory Conference with foreign ministers from the Group of Friends of Haiti, major donors and key regional and multilateral partners engaged in Haiti. The Conference is held in Montreal and is chaired by Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Honourable Lawrence Cannon.
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OTTAWA, ONTARIO - The Government of Haiti has given its agreement to bring 154 adopted children to Canada, Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Jason Kenney announced today.
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