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Oil price drop means lost billions for Canada, CIBC says – Business – CBC News
Oil price drop means lost billions for Canada, CIBC says – Business – CBC News.
The dramatic decline in oil prices will cost Ottawa about $5 billion in lost revenue and provincial economies a little more than that, one of Canada’s biggest banks suggested today.
That’s one of the main takeaways from a CIBC report that attempts to quantify the impact of plunging oil prices on many aspects of Canada’s economy.
“The recent dive in crude oil prices is an unprecedented development for the Canadian economy,” the report by CIBC economists Avery Shenfeld, Peter Buchanan and Warren Lovely says.
There’s a broad consensus that the declining price of oil is bad economic news for Canada, since the country has made major moves in the last decade or so to increase oil output and become a major global player in energy.
Last week, the Bank of Canada estimated that on the whole, suddenly cheaper oil will knock about a third of a percentage point off of Canada’s GDP next year. But the CIBC report points out that gauging the impact of that decline is far more complex than simply measuring the impact on GDP.
Muslim-Canadians decry attacks amid backlash – Features – Al Jazeera English
Muslim-Canadians decry attacks amid backlash – Features – Al Jazeera English.
Montreal, Canada – As more details emerge about separate attacks on soldiers and government institutions last week in Ottawa and Quebec, Muslim leaders are urging Canadians not to typecast the entire community amid fears of a backlash.
Corporal Nathan Cirillo was shot dead at the National War Memorial in Ottawa on Wednesday, while a hit-and-run vehicle attack in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec days earlier killed Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent and wounded another soldier.
Many local media reports described the perpetrators – Michael Zehaf-Bibeau in Ottawa, and Martin Couture-Rouleau in Quebec – as Muslim converts with some inferring the men supported the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper described Couture-Rouleau as “an ISIL-inspired terrorist“, while much media attention focused on Zehaf-Bibeau’s Libyan father, and attempts he made to renew his Libyan passport.
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Are we peddling fear just for the sake of it? – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Are we peddling fear just for the sake of it? – The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).
As disturbing as the events in Ottawa were, we are entitled to ask whether the political response here in Australia, on the other side of the world, was helpful or merely exploitative, writes Barrie Cassidy.
The threat of terrorism is real, but is it exaggerated?
The need to be vigilant is obvious, but do we have to live in fear?
Every time someone goes berserk overseas, do we have to behave as if it happened around the corner?
Why in 2014 is every act by a crazed gunman immediately interpreted as an act of terrorism?
And when does the rhetoric of politicians cross the boundaries from sensible public safety and security warnings to fear for the sake of it?
As disturbing as the events in Ottawa were, they could have been the actions of a “lone wolf” with a criminal history. Even if it turns out he was part of some sort of organised global terror attack – what the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, described in the Parliament as part of Islamic State’s “war on the world” – we are still entitled to ask whether the response here in Australia, on the other side of the world, was helpful or merely exploitative.
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In wake of Canada attacks, Toronto police drill for disaster | Reuters
In wake of Canada attacks, Toronto police drill for disaster | Reuters.
(Reuters) – About 100 police, firefighters and other emergency workers held a disaster-response drill in downtown Toronto’s deserted financial district on Sunday following a week that saw two soldiers killed on Canadian soil.
Security in normally relaxed Canada has been tighter in the days since a gunman shot dead a soldier in Ottawa before charging into the parliament building and another man ran over two soldiers with a car, killing one, outside Montreal.
Toronto emergency responders donned oxygen tanks and yellow full-body hazardous material suits shortly after dawn, set up decontamination tents and practiced how they would respond in an office tower that had received a suspicious package.
The drill had long been planned and was not a reaction to the twin attacks that police said had been carried out by men they described as home-grown radicals, officials said.
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The Canadian Patriot Act Arrives: Ottawa To Give Security Agencies More “Detention And Surveillance” Powers | Zero Hedge
Stop us when the flashbacks to September 11, and its Patriot Act aftermath, become too close for comfort.
s Reuters reported moments ago, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Thursday the government will expedite plans to give more powers of detention and surveillance to security agencies in the wake of an attack on Parliament.
“They need to be much strengthened, and I assure you, Mr. Speaker, that work which is already under way will be expedited,” he told the House of Commons, one day after a gunman launched an attack on Parliament and was shot dead.
On the other hand, instead of giving the government even more authoritarian power to do with civilian liberties as it sees fit and appropriate, perhaps the government’s agencies could have simply done their work better under the existing laws and regulations, especially after the Sky News report that the Ottawa shooter, Canadian born Michael Zehaf-Bibeau, was already on a terror watch list.
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PM vows to ‘fight terror’ after Ottawa attack – Americas – Al Jazeera English
PM vows to ‘fight terror’ after Ottawa attack – Americas – Al Jazeera English.
Canada’s prime minister has condemned the “brutal and violent” shooting of a Canadian soldier in Ottawa and a hit-and-run that killed another soldier earlier this week, saying the incidents are grim reminders that Canada is not immune to terrorism.
“But let there be no misunderstanding, we will not be intimidated,” Stephen Harper said in a televised address to the nation late on Wednesday.
Harper said the attacks would not deter Canada from working with international allies to fight terrorism around the world, and vowed to go after those who are involved.
“This will lead us to strengthen our resolve and redouble our efforts, to fight against the terrorist organisations who brutalise those in other countries with the hope of bringing their savagery to our shores,” he said.
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Soldier Shot At Ottawa’s Canadian War Memorial, Parliament On Lockdown, 1 Shooter Killed, Multiple Suspects At Large – Live Feed | Zero Hedge
PDATE: *CANADA SHOOTER KILLED IN OTTAWA, 2 LAWMAKERS SAY ON TWITTER but CBS reports multiple suspects at large after more than 30 shots fired at Canadian Parliament
Two days after two Canadian soldiers were hit by a car driven by Martin Couture-Rouleau, a 25-year-old Canadian who, as The Globe and Mail reported, “converted to Islam recently and called himself Ahmad Rouleau,” Bloomberg reports:
- *SHOTS FIRED AT CANADA WAR MEMORIAL
- *SOLDIER SEEN FALLING TO GROUND AT CANADA WAR MEMORIAL
- *CANADA POLICE SAY OTTAWA SHOOTER STILL ON THE LOOSE
- *CANADA PARLIAMENT EVACUATED AFTER SHOTS FIRED IN OTTAWA
- *CANADA’S RCMP POLICE ASK PEOPLE STAY AWAY FROM PARLIAMENT
- *CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER IS SAFE, HAS LEFT PARLIAMENT HILL: CBC
- *OTTAWA’S RIDEAU SHOPPING CENTER EVACUATED: CANADIAN PRESS
- *MANY DOWNTOWN OTTAWA STREETS CLOSED, CITY SAYS AVOID AREA
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