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...lacked the consistent career numbers shared by this year’s top three Kazmaier finalists. Team Canada claimed her inferior skating skills kept her from consideration on the national team—though putting her school before Canada??s Under-22 squad probably influenced its decision. And her best effort wasn’t enough for Harvard to win the national championship, as the Crimson fell for the third straight year in the title game...
...never heard of Barrie. The capital of Southern Ontario’s cottage country has a population of 125,000 and is largely undistinguished among the hundreds of other communities of its size that dot the landscape just north of the 49th parallel. Except that tomorrow, Barrie will host Canada??s Live 8 concert, featuring performances by Bryan Adams, Céline Dion, Gordon Lightfoot, the Barenaked Ladies, and the Tragically Hip, among others...
...criticisms are deserved. It is one thing for Sir Bob to orchestrate the Live 8 concerts in an effort to raise awareness of some very important issues in the run-up to a G8 conference. But it is quite another thing when he goes so far as to tell Canada??s head of government not to bother attending the Gleneagles Summit unless he’s willing to implement, posthaste, a major shift in his country’s foreign aid policy. Geldof crossed the line with his admonition of Prime Minister Martin, which is a real shame...
...Canada??s current foreign aid contribution is approximately $3 billion, 0.26 percent of the country’s trillion-dollar GDP. Reaching 0.7 percent would require Canada??s contribution to more than double, a political near-impossibility given the higher-than-usual level of spending included in the government’s last budget, passed...
...criticism, Martin told the House of Commons on June 21, “I’m not going to make a commitment that I am not sure that the government will be able to keep,” he said. This is in spite of Canada??s declaration, made as part of its Millennium Development Goals in 2000, that it would reach the 0.7 percent target...