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...other countries, and should the Canadian banking system be a model for G-7 and G-20 leaders when they gather in Washington on Nov. 15? Consider that the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, an influential think tank whose annual conference attracts the likes of Bill Gates and Tony Blair, earlier this month ranked Canada's banking system as the soundest in the world. The U.S. came in at No. 40, and Germany and Britain ranked 39 and 44, respectively. (Switzerland was No. 16, just ahead of Namibia.) "For Canadian banks, having higher capital ratios than anyone else...
...Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair once enjoyed such popularity Stateside that Americans bemoaned the accident of birth that made him ineligible for a White House run. Westminster is far less diverse than Washington, but if Obama's birth certificate were unexpectedly to reveal him as a Brit, opinion polls suggest he could romp into Downing Street without breaking a sweat. In the green room of a London TV studio, David Lammy, Minister for Higher Education and one of Britain's most prominent black politicians, watched mute and damp-eyed as Obama's family joined him onstage at Grant Park...
...From curing economic ills to ending the war in Iraq, expectations of Obama among some of his foreign fans are stratospheric. Many Britons are schooled in disappointment: they elected Blair and his Labour government in a burst of goodwill in 1997 but watched him leave office last year with much of that goodwill dissipated. "Obama has to avoid repeating the mistake we made back then," said one Labour MP. "We were too cautious, and we wasted our first term when we should have been doing big, bold things with our majority." It's a point that Labour Cabinet Minister Shaun...
...Obama campaign is similar to other campaigns that ran predominantly on a ticket of “change” against a party which had been in power for some time. Both Tony Blair in the U.K. in 1997, and Gerhard Schroeder a year later in Germany, harnessed the power of such a message in unseating center-right opponents who had ruled for more than a decade. If the tide of history is behind a challenger pushing “change,” it is one of the most powerful forces in politics...
...discussing ways to circumvent the rules. Despite calls led by Prime Minister Brown for an investigation into the matter, the Electoral Commission indicated that it saw no need for such inquiries and Tony Wright, a Labour MP who chaired the parliamentary committee that investigated a funding scandal during Blair's final term, also suggested the Tories were in the clear. "We are not talking about corruption here. We are not talking about law-breaking," said Wright. This was about "a massive misjudgment." Or, as Lord Tebbit, former chairman of the Conservative party and one of Margaret Thatcher's most loyal...