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Harper's International Victory

Mitch Wolfe | Posted 05.27.2013 | Canada Politics
Read More: UK, France, Europe, Parti Quebecois, Montreal Headquarters, Quebec Separatists, Pauline Marois, John Baird, Stephen Harper, Icao, Justin Trudeau, Mayor Applebaum of Montreal, Qatar, Canada Politics News
Mitch Wolfe

Over a 20-year period, the term of the lease now being renewed by ICAO and Quebec/Canada, ICAO will generate several billion dollars of revenue for the city of Montreal. This is a fight that Harper had to win. And he, Baird and the whole Team Montreal, won decisively. A huge international victory.

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At Last, Some Good News From Syria

Qais Ghanem, MD | Posted 01.13.2013 | Canada
Read More: Syria Uprising, Democracy, Qatar, Syria Defectors, Syria, President Assad, Syrian National Coalition, Bashar Al-Assad, The Arab League, Canada News
Qais Ghanem, MD

The announcement in Qatar on November 10 of the formation of the Syrian National Coalition with an elected president is an event of monumental importance, in my opinion. There will be the usual misgivings and apprehensions about the chaos that is expected to follow the collapse of any of these very long Arab dictatorships but none of that will materialize, and the Syrian nation as a whole will do quite well, with a little help from its friends.

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Small Countries Weathering the Recession: Crashing and Burning or Rising From the Ashes

Andrew Cooper | Posted 11.04.2011 | Canada
Read More: Small Countries Recession, Chile, Greece, Singapore, Qatar, Iceland, Resilient Countries, Recession, Canada News
Andrew Cooper

The post-Cold War years were good for the fortunes of small countries. Small states did indeed seem beautiful in the 1990s and early 2000s. The end o...

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FIFA Bans Mohamed Bin Hammam From Football For Life

The Canadian Press | Graham Dunbar, The Associated Press | Posted 09.22.2011 | Canada
Read More: Soccer Mohamed Bin Hammam, Bribery, Football, Sepp Blatter, Fifa, Election Bribing, Qatar, Canada News

ZURICH - FIFA banned Mohamed bin Hammam from all soccer duty for life on Saturday after finding him guilty of bribing presidential election voters.

A FIFA ethics panel ruled that the Qatari candidate conspired to pay Caribbean officials US$40,000 cash bribes to back his ultimately abandoned challenge to FIFA President Sepp Blatter.

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