Watch the seat number projections of various political parties in India in Number Game on Times Now. Navika Kumar, Sopan Das Gupta, Vinod Mehta, Shankar Raghuraman, Malini Chatterji, Vinod Sharma, Dilip Padgaonkar, Sanjeev Srivasthava and Mahesh Rangaraj take part in the discussion.

Excerpts from highlights of The Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan’s world tours. To order the entire DVD, visit store.finalcall.com or call (866) 602-1230.

imageG20 finance leaders on Saturday took aim at excessive bank pay and risk-taking at the root of the global financial crisis and insisted trillions of dollars of emergency economic supports would be needed for some time. Although the global economy looks brighter than when the Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers met in April, their closing statement said they would not remove economic stimulus until the recovery was well entrenched. While the timing of these eventual policy reversals may vary, the G20 said for the first time there should be some coordination to avoid adverse international fallout. But as the focus shifted from crisis-fighting to establishing a safer financial system for the future, ministers searched for consensus on precise plans to rein in bankers’ huge bonuses and use more of their profits to build buffers against any future crisis. “We cannot put the world in a position where things go back to where they were at the peak of the boom,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said. “It cannot happen, will not happen and you can’t expect the markets to solve that problem on their own because it’s a huge collective action problem…so it has to come through things that countries legislate.” EXIT, BUT NOT NOW On the public stage, the message was one of solidarity as policymakers agreed they must keep spending the $5 trillion already earmarked as economic stimulus and delay any unwinding of emergency fiscal and monetary measures until economies are sturdy enough to stand on their own. “The classic errors of economic policy during crises are that governments tend to act too late with insufficient force and then put the brakes on too early,” Geithner said. “We are not going to repeat those mistakes.” In a final statement, the G20 officials from rich and developing countries also said they would work with the International Monetary Fund and Financial Stability Board to develop cooperative and coordinated exit strategies. Behind the scenes, some G20 sources expressed frustration that there was not more progress made in curbing excessive pay packages for bankers — particularly those employed by firms that have received billions of dollars in government support. “There is broad agreement on what to do. The problem is we need to go beyond agreement. We need to have concrete measures,” said International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. “I’m impressed by the level of consensus but I’m still waiting for strong measures to be decided and also to be implemented at the national level.” BANK PAY AND BUFFERS Much of the public pressure before the meeting had centered on excessive bank remuneration, particularly for those who worked at banks receiving billions of dollars in public aid. “It is offensive to the public whose taxpayers’ money in different ways has helped (keep) many banks from collapsing and is now underpinning their recovery,” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said at the start of Saturday’s meetings. On pay and bonuses in the financial sector, the statement fell short of calling for caps, saying that: “We also ask the Financial Stability Board to explore possible approaches for limiting total variable remuneration in relation to risk and long-term performance.” That was seen as a compromise between France and Germany, which had pushed hard for pay limits, and Britain, the United States and Canada, which were opposed to caps. But it also effectively delayed a tricky political issue until the Pittsburgh summit later this month. Finance leaders broadly agreed that banks ought to hold more capital as a cushion against the sort of catastrophic losses that led to bank failures and bailouts. The final statement said that banks would “be required to hold more and better quality capital once recovery is assured.” Geithner called for “greater urgency” on regulatory reform and cautioned that as the crisis recedes and the economy improves, the momentum for reform may wane. He had surprised many of his colleagues by releasing an 8-point proposal on new capital rules just two days before the G20 meeting, with some ministers saying they did not have time to review it. It is a delicate issue because tighter capital rules would likely hurt banks’ profits and restrict their lending, both of which could be harmful to the economy. CHANGING WORLD ORDER The statement showed agreement that emerging nations like India and China should have a greater say in the running of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank but did not offer up any formula of how this should be achieved. It said only that their voice in global economic policymaking would grow “significantly” and that it expected “substantial progress” to be made on the issue at a summit of world leaders in Pittsburgh later this month. But the group said reforms need only be completed by the existing deadline of 2010 for the World Bank and 2011 for the IMF. The BRIC group of leading emerging powers — India, China, Russia and Brazil — had laid out on Friday concrete targets for how much movement they wanted in IMF and World Bank quotas.

Hi,

I am trying to find recent (last 4 years) studies or polls by Canadian research institutes relating to stem cell research in Canada or that would affect Canadians? It doesn’t really matter what exactly the research is about as long as it concerns stem cells.

I have been having a great deal of difficulty finding CANADIAN research studies and polls. I have been asked to do a report on stem cells but I can only use Canadian studies/polls.

Also, a classmate of mine who knows somewhat about stem cell research in Canada said that Canadian researchers are quite behind in research and tend to get information from European studies. Is this true?

If anyone knows of any Canadian studies, feel free to tell me!

Thank you!

Who is allowed to vote in a Federal Election…. I know that a United States Citizens who are eighteen years of age and older is allowed to but are there any more specifications?

Connie’s speech as President of the Canadian Action Party

The sound of a nation collectively unclenching. Spontaneous parties at intersections at Yonge & Eglinton, Yonge & Bloor, and Yonge & Dundas in Toronto, Canada. This was shot at Yonge & Bloor about 1 hour after winning the olympic hockey gold medal game.

Chapters 3 & 4
1. What happened during the Russian revolution and why did this concern Canadians?
2. What was the Conscription Crisis and how did it affect French-English relations in Canada?
3. What was the Treaty of Versailles and what was the goal/outcome of the treaty?
4. Describe the process by which women became enfranchised in Canada.

Chapter 5
1. When did relief camps begin to improve? What actions brought these changes?
2. What role did tariffs play in the Depression?
3. What was laissez-faire, and how did it affect the depression in Canada?
4. What new national and regional parties were formed during the depression and how did they differ from earlier parties?
5. List and explain the causes of the depression.
6. Explain how people used escapism to help them through the depression.
7. What was the purpose of putting the Dionne Quintuplets on display during the depression?
8. While people were suffering in the depression on the prairies what were conditions like for workers in the city?
9. How does the Stock Market work and why did the Stock Market collapse?
10. What regions of Canada were hit the hardest by the Depression? Why?
11. What happened to the Canadian political leadership during the depression?
12. How did Canadians help each other during the Depression?
13. Why did Canadians name items after Bennett?
14. What is the difference between private and public relief?
15. What was the On-to-Ottawa trek?

Chapters 6.1-6.4

1.What were the causes of World War II?
2.Why did Canada adopt a policy of isolationism? What is isolationism?
3.Why did the League of Nations fail?
4.What alliances were formed amongst countries?
5.What is fascism, and why is it effective for leaders?
6.What brought the United States into the war?
7.What happened during the Italian Campaign?
8.What happened on D-Day?
9.How did Japan conquer Hong Kong?

Chapter #6.5- 6.8

1.How did woman expand their role during the war?
2.What is propaganda, and why is it so effective?
3.What happened to Canada’s economy during the war?
4.What was the conscription crisis?
5.What were the Canadian internment camps?
6.What did Canada do to Japanese-Canadians?
7.Why are war artists important to history?
8.What led to the set-up or build-up of the Cold War?
9.What is the legacy, and what lessons are learned from this war?

Chapter #7.1-7.6

1.What social changes came about in the 1950’s and 1960’s generally speaking?
2.What was the baby boom?
3.What happened to immigration in Canada after the war?
4.What happened to the primary industries after the war?
5.How did the landscape of Canada change?
6.What is the legacy of the Avro Arrow?
7.Why did Canada partake in NORAD and other forms of defense?
8.What are inflation, tariffs, and an economic balance of trade?
9.Who were Canada’s leaders in the 1950’s, and 1960’s?
10.Were there any Civil Rights changes during this time?

Chapter 7.7-7.11
1.Who is Maurice Duplessis, and what is he responsible for?
2.What were reasons why the separatist movement started?
3.How did Charles De Gaulle upset P.M. Lester Pearson?
4.Who is Igor Gouzenko?
5.What were the two major Cold War Alliances that opposed each other?
6.What happened so that the Cuban Missile Crisis became a real threat?
7.What is a détente? What role does it play in diplomacy?
8.What is the United Nations and it’s various departments responsible for?
9.What was Canada’s involvement in the Korean War, The Suez Canal Crisis, and Cyprus?

Chapter #8.1-8.4
1.In what way did Provinces seek more power? Why did they do this?
2.Why did Federal Governments now have to listen more to the provinces?
3.Who is Pierre Trudeau? What would you characterize his leadership by?
4.What third party developed?
5.Who was the Front de Liberation du Quebec?
6.What is sovereignty-association?
7.Was Trudeau government big on spending money?

Chapter # 8.5- 8.9
1.What new roles were women taking on in the 1970’s?
2.What was the White Paper?
3.Did Native-Canadians think that the White paper was fair? Why or why not?
4.How did Canada-American relations become more complex?
5.What was Trudeau’s foreign-policy?
6.What happened to Canada’s sense of culture and nationalism?
7.What big event happened in 1972 for sports fans, and our sense of pride?
8.What was Canada’s immigration policy in the 1970’s?
9.What is the legacy of David Suzuki?

Chapter # 9.0-9.2
1.Why was the creation of Nunavut important to the aboriginal people?
2.What was the significance of Charlottetown and Meech Lake?
3. What were Jean Chrétien and Brian Mulroney greatest accomplishments in terms of national unity?

I just think a lot of Conservatives can broaden their perspective on what it means to be globally Conservative if they merge ideas with the Conservative Party of Canada.

The USA Conservative people could take fiscal policy lessons from Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper of Canada, who is doing an outstanding job with managing Chrysler’s subsidiaries in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Why don’t USA Conservatives explore what it means to be Conservative in Canada? Canadian Conservatives have family values practices that can guide USA Conservatives.
For example, values where the health of family should be denied to nobody regardless of their ability to pay for insurance because it’s a fundamental right, just like the culture of life.

Also USA Conservatives believe in a right to life and likewise Canadian Conservatives do not support capital punishment for that reason.

USA Conservatives believe in freedom and liberty and so do Canadian Conservatives, that’s why you are free in Manitoba, Canada to Harvest Hemp seeds where in USA it’s illegal.

US Conservatives do not believe in government coercion and so do Canadian Conservatives, that’s why Canadian Conservatives would never coerce the leader of a foreign country, Iraq, to disarm or be disarmed.

USA Conservatives believe in profitable energy independence and so do Canadian Conservatives, that’s why Canadian Conservatives get their oil from Alberta crude and not from Saudi Arabia.

USA Conservatives believe in free enterprise, so do Canadian Conservatives. That’s why Canadian Conservatives believe not in “buy Canada only” or “Buy American” slogans but instead believe in supplying Softwood Lumber just like America freely provides Cinema.

So why can’t USA Conservatives assemble with Canadian Conservatives?

Also Obama people should be closer to Ignetieff.

And Ralph Nader should get to know Elizabeth May.

and Dennis Kucinich should become friends with Jack Layton.

And Sotomayor should become friends with Gil Duceppe.
and in Canada religion is valued highly enough that no Government or state has the right to intervene or use religion or faith as a tool for any legislative policy or initiative. What is this “faith-based” initiative stuff?
FYI I’m American, not Canadian, I just know a lot about my neighbors (neighbours) to the north

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