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One final push will make polio history
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 29 days ago
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Most people think of polio as something we used to worry about. We want to argue that it's worth a considerable amount of our attention right now. A quarter of a century ago, the countries of the world set the goal of wiping polio off the planet.
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Ottawa sets up fund to court corporate investment
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 month ago
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Economy Video Video International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino said Friday that the Canada-IFC Partnership Fund will focus on innovation in the financial sector and sustainable development in the extractive industry, adding that it would pay
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Language watchdog Graham Fraser defends French-speaking bureaucrats
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 month ago
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Parliament's language watchdog is challenging a national media outlet for writing that the federal government has a shortage of spokespeople whose first language is English. The remarks, directed at the government, were part of a Sun Media editorial
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John Baird's ‘English only' business cards violated language law, says watchdog
Toronto :: Canada | 1 month ago
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Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird has joined his cabinet colleague International Cooperation Minister Julian Fantino under the microscope of Parliament's language watchdog over separate English only controversies. While Fantino is under
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Fantino's office issued directive for English-only communications
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | 1 month ago
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Official Languages Commissioner Graham Fraser has agreed to look into the matter after a complaint from the New Democrats, who argue the order may violate the Official Languages Act. The legislation guarantees the right of federal employees to work
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Canada stands alone as only country to reject UN convention dealing with droughts and desertification
Canada will be the only country in the world to withdraw from a UN convention that fights droughts following a cabinet order from the Harper government. There is to be a major meeting on the convention in Germany in April. The federal
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CIDA to merge into Foreign Affairs, reports say
Ottawa :: Canada | 2 months ago
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NDP Leader Tom Mulcair rises during Question Period in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Wednesday Feb.6, 2013 ...International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino, who gave a speech in November detailing the government's desire to
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Canada cuts direct foreign aid to China
Shanghai :: China | 2 months ago
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Many have persistently questioned why China received bilateral aid from Canada, given its economic superpower status, military muscle and increasing influence on world affairs, including a growing development budget of its own. When you go to the
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Secrecy reigns as CIDA refers another case to public service watchdog
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 months ago
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Fresh concerns have been raised about the government's refusal to identify bureaucrats who abuse their positions after International Development Minister Julian Fantino referred another potential conflict-of-interest case to the public sector
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Fantino defends Uganda grant decision against anti-gay claims
Kampala :: Uganda | 3 months ago
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International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino is defending the Conservative government's decision to provide funding to an Ontario evangelical group that has described homosexuality as a perversion and a sin. Fantino said Monday as he came under
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