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U.S. President Joe Biden followed his US$1.9-trillion pandemic rescue plan with a mammoth US$2-trillion expenditure on infrastructure. He called the latter an investment “unlike anything we’ve seen or done since we built the Interstate Highway System and the Space Race decades ago.”
He’s not exaggerating. Seizing the opportunity provided by the alarm of the pandemic, he’s moving his country into a bold new phase of big-government activism that channels a good swath of Canadian liberalism.
In putting together the infrastructure plan, Biden officials consulted often with Canada’s Infrastructure Minister Catherine McKenna and her team.
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Greenland’s left-wing Inuit Ataqatigiit party won a snap parliamentary election on Tuesday following a campaign that largely focused on a disputed mining project in the semi-autonomous Danish territory. Following its win, the Inuit Ataqatigiit party reaffirmed its opposition to the Kvanefjeld mining project, citing environmental concerns.
Many saw Tuesday’s vote as a referendum on Kvanefjeld, as Greenland’s Siumut party supported the development, arguing that it would provide hundreds of jobs and generate hundreds of millions of dollars annually over several decades.
“It’s not that Greenlanders don’t want mining, but they don’t want dirty mining,” said Mikaa Mered, a lecturer on Arctic affairs at HEC business school in Paris, referring to uranium and rare earth projects. “Greenlanders are sending a strong message that for them it’s not worth sacrificing the
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OTTAWA A proposed new embassy row just west of downtown could soon be up for debate at Ottawa City Hall. The plan by the National Capital Commission would see green space in Mechanicsville near the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway used for six new embassies that each be three storeys tall. Which countries will occupy the embassies has yet to be decided. But residents of Mechanicsville opposed to the project say the land space should not be used for a row of diplomatic missions. Roy Atkinson, of the Mechanicsville Community Association told CTV News at Noon that one the principal concerns is safety.