Headlines for November 14, 2011
Tim Harper: Canada drowned out by U.S. election noise
At their first meeting in Ottawa, Stephen Harper had to merely smile and bask in the aura of the royal reception accorded Barack Obama on that frosty February day in 2009.
The next time they met in Washington, the two men tried to trumpet a potential agreement as historic, a deal now revealed to be anything but.
By the time they met in Honolulu Sunday, the Harper-Obama tête-à-tête had an air of crisis about it, at least from the Canadian perspective.
The common denominator?
Obama’s declining political fortunes and the proximity of the next U.S. election.
… it’s as though Obama thinks that if the yuan goes up, China’s first priority will will be to buy more American debt. LoL. They’ll be buying American assets.
Obama says China has not moved quickly enough on yuan
US President Barack Obama has said that China is not doing enough to allow its currency to rise in value.
Speaking at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit in Hawaii, President Obama said China needed to follow the same rules as other nations.
The value of the yuan has been a key point of conflict between the US and China over recent years.
Hawaiian singer surprises Obama summit with ‘Occupy’ song
HONOLULU, Hawaii — A popular Hawaiian recording artist turned a top-security dinner of Pacific Rim leaders hosted by President Barack Obama into a subtle protest with a song in support of the “Occupy” movement.
Makana, who goes by one name, was enlisted to play a luau, or Hawaiian feast, Saturday night for leaders assembled in Obama’s birthplace Honolulu for an annual summit that is formulating plans for a Pacific free-trade pact.
But in the midst of the dinner on the resort strip Waikiki Beach, he pulled open his jacket to reveal a T-shirt that read “Occupy with Aloha,” using the Hawaiian word whose various meanings include love and peace. He then sang a marathon version of his new song “We Are The Many.”
‘Karl Marx would have made a fantastic hedge fund manager’
Suppose you had first-hand experience in both radical leftwing activism and the world of finance. How does the Occupy movement look to you? And what makes you say things like: “Karl Marx would have made a fantastic hedge fund manager”?
Harper looks to Asian energy markets after Keystone delay
Prime Minister Stephen Harper told U.S. President Barack Obama at the APEC summit on Sunday that Canada will look for new markets in Asia for its oil and gas, now that the Keystone pipeline has been delayed for more than a year.
Harper made Canada’s disappointment in the delay clear when the two leaders sat down for almost 30 minutes at the summit in Hawaii.
All of Canada’s oil and gas exports currently go south of the border, and Keystone would transport crude from the oilsands to Texas. Now, however, Harper says the U.S. decision has left him no choice.
NDP Support Slipping Amid Leadership Contest, Poll Suggests
The harsh spotlight of their first turn as official Opposition without an established leader may be taking an early toll on the NDP.
The latest survey by The Canadian Press-Harris Decima suggests the New Democrats under rookie interim leader Nycole Turmel are slipping in key regions and most demographic groupings.
Nationally, polls suggests NDP support has been trending downward for about a month.
Kindle Fire mixed reviews, Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘war on privacy’, and more
A quick burst of 11 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team
