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...Obama Administration's plans to withdraw American troops from the country, it has certainly forced many Iraqi refugees to put off plans to return to the country. A series of bombings across Iraq in April killed more than 200, the highest monthly body count in roughly a year. Andrew Harper, head of the Iraq Support Unit created by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told TIME that the rate of refugee return slowed dramatically in April. And a "significant number" of returnees have turned around and fled the country again...
When Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper met with E.U. leaders in Prague on May 6 for a summit to launch talks on a free trade agreement, they should have been exchanging handshakes and back slaps. Instead, they were straining to prevent their summit from being hijacked by an unlikely agitator: the baby seal...
...Ottawa and the Ontario government are contributing a total of $3.2 billion in loans to keep Chrysler Canada alive, including $850 million extended to the ailing automaker at the beginning of the year. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty have characterized the Canadian contribution as proportional to the $12 billion in emergency loans that the Obama Administration has made available to Chrysler LLC, now under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (See the worst business deals...
...really going on behind the scenes of the Canadian bailout of Chrysler has more to do with politics than economics. Car dealers and parts suppliers have engaged in a ferocious campaign to save the automaker, both in Ottawa and at the Ontario legislature in Toronto. At the same time, Harper and McGuinty are fearful of the repercussions of having Chrysler Canada fail on their watch, possibly triggering a collapse of Ontario's auto sector...
...Harper's minority Conservative government in particular needs votes in Canada's industrial heartland if it is to survive a general election, which might come as early as next month. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...