NADER: LEARN FROM CANADIAN POLITICS

Nader will be in Toronto on Monday to host a campaign fundraiser with Americans living in the country, and to talk about what’s at stake for Canada in the U.S. election.

CANADIANS PLAY TENNIS?

Apparently so, as a Canadian woman won a WTA singles tennis tournament for the first time in 20 years.

Quote #41

“Canada has access to the U.S. media and you don’t have that in the U.S. A lot of people in the U.S. take Canada for granted and they don’t have much knowledge about what is going on in Canada – they don’t even know the name of the prime minister.”

Leonard Gold, president of the New England-Canada Business Council

JOB GROWTH BETTER IN CANADA

Employment growth in Canada has remained much stronger than in the United States for more than a year-and-a-half.

LORD & TAYLOR MERGES WITH THE BAY

The parent of US retailer Lord & Taylor on Wednesday bought Canada’s premiere Hudson’s Bay chain for an undisclosed sum, merging two of North America’s oldest department store chains.

CANADIANS PLAY BASEBALL?

What? Canada had three players in the annual Major League Baseball all-star game? Heck one of the Canadians even won the home run derby!

Quote #40

“We now have approximately fifty war resisters, many with families, from Ottawa all the way to Vancouver Island

Lee Zaslofsky, National Coordinator of Canada’s War Resisters Support Campaign

AMERICAN RESISTERS IN CANADA

Here is a story of the act of resisting war by moving to a different country. Compelling and unfortunate, and very much worth reading.

NORTH BY SOUTHWEST

Americans will get more chances to fly to Canada with Southwest’s announcement that they will be flying north of the border.

NO MORE DODGING IN CANADA

Canada is no longer the great white northern escape, according to the international herald tribune.