Video: CETA benefits for Canada and Europe
The European Union’s Ambassador to Canada, Marie-Anne Coninsx explains the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) and the benefits accruing to both Europe and Canada when its previsions come...
View ArticleOpinion: Radical Islam threatens liberal Europe
Harry Sterling Has Canada become an unwilling recruitment centre for would-be Islamic militants and extremists, including those intending to travel to war zones in the unstable Middle East?
View ArticleOpinion: Europe’s airfares a bargain compared with Canada
“Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people,” Mark Twain wrote in an 1867 letter to a San Francisco newspaper.
View ArticleStephen Hume: Rich Coleman’s ‘world-class’ fracking standards lag far behind...
‘World-class’ is a meaningless phrase babbled by B.C. politicians
View ArticleDon Cayo: Prospects for the TPP won’t change with a new government
Will prime minister-to-be Justin Trudeau — or, for that matter, will other Canadians — find any big surprises when first he, then we finally get to see the still-secret Trans-Pacific Partnership...
View ArticleVancouver firms hear benefits of EU ties from Belgian mission
Belgium’s western Canadian trade mission made an attractive pitch Monday to be Canada’s entry point for European free trade, at least for a couple of Vancouver businesses. “I think there are a lot of...
View ArticleDon Cayo: Canada's internal market disjointed by trade barriers
Most of the time, most Canadians favour freer international trade - just look at the general acceptance of 21-year-old NAFTA; the collective yawn when Canada inks a small deal with a place like Costa...
View ArticleEU widens steel-trade protection with Russia, China tariffs
Russian and Chinese makers of non-stainless steels face European Union tariffs as high as 26.2 per cent after the EU found that imports from the two countries unfairly undercut producers in Europe such...
View ArticleDouglas Todd: Is the English language privileged? It's certainly popular
Opinion: English is not a 'better' language. But the reality is that, for a host of reasons, it is prevailing as perhaps the world's second language of choice
View ArticleUncertainty for B.C. growers as EU set to halt some Canadian fruit imports
EU decision to halt import of some Canadian fruit caught growers by surprise
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