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28,June 2013        CANADA   NEWS

**The Prime Minister’s Office says it expects any guns seized from homes in the evacuated town of High River will be returned to their owners as soon as possible. The RCMP revealed Thursday that officers had seized a “substantial” number of firearms from homes in flood-ravaged High River, about 37 kilometres south Calgary. Officers were ordered to fall back about an hour into the standoff in order to defuse the situation.**

**Shares of the BlackBerry maker plummeted more than 25% in early trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange and fell as much as 30% on the Nasdaq. Although BlackBerry’s reported first-quarter revenue of US$3.1-billion was up 15% from the US$2.68-billion generated in the previous quarter, sales fell short of analyst expectations. Wall Street analysts had looked for BlackBerry to report revenue of roughly US$3.4-billion, with earnings of about 8¢ per share, according to Bloomberg estimates.**

**Scientists have mapped the genetic code of a horse about 700,000 years old, The scientists used a tiny fossil found in the Canadian Yukon, and they said that for every 200 DNA molecules extracted from the fossil, only one belonged to the horse. The 700,000-year-old horse was probably about the size of modern-day Arabian horses, researchers said, but the horse probably lacked the genes for large muscles needed for racing.
Scientists believe the new laboratory techniques may allow them to map animal genomes up to one million years ago and does not necessarily have to be used on fossils found in cold climates.**

28,June 2013     US   NEWS

**Military exercises called Eager Lion, More than 8,000 military personnel from 19 countries gathered in the Kingdom of Jordan for the annual military training Exercise.  The Jordanian Special Operations Forces demonstrated their skills during live night-fire exercises. Harrier, Cobra, Osprey, C-5 Galaxy, F-16 and F-18 aircraft were just some of the air power the U.S. brought to the integrated aviation exercises.

Military exercises called Carat, In the South China Sea, the 19th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training, drew to a close on June 23. More than 1,200 U.S. Sailors and Marines participated in the series of naval exercises with the armed forces of eight countries. Bangladesh, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Timor E. During the 10 days, participants were challenged on land and at sea in scenarios related to current maritime threats.

Training exercises like Eager Lion and Carat are important to building relationships between the U.S. and coalition partners but is also a great demonstration of forces after the differences in the G8, and at the gates of a regional war in the Middle East. It is interesting to reflect that Russian gas supplies to most of Europe, and China has a good portion of the external debt of the United States. For now, the show must go on.**

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EDMONTON

**Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has postponed a tour of Alberta’s oilsands region because of the recent floods in the province. He was to tour an oilsands plant in the Fort McMurray area this weekend and visit a First Nations community at Fort Chipewyan. Kennedy, who says the oilsands have serious implications for human health and the environment.**

**Alberta brought in only two-thirds of the $11.2 billion in non-renewable resource revenue it originally counted on in 2012-13 after a grim fiscal year that started out full of pre-election optimism. In the end, Alberta collected $7.6 billion in non-renewable resource revenue, taking a $2-billion hit from bitumen, $219 million less from crude oil and $268 million less in natural gas royalties than budgeted. Alberta Finance Minister Doug Horner released the final tally of the province’s revenue and spending as of March 31, 2013, at an informal press conference outside the Calgary Police Headquarters.**

VICTORIA

**Economic growth is declining, the debt is rising and the downward trend is reflected in home sales, retail sales and job creation, Finance Minister Mike de Jonghe said. De Jong said the budget introduced Thursday in Victoria reveals changes in B.C.’s economic forecast since last February, when he tabled a financial plan that was never passed because the legislature adjourned for the May 14 election campaign. “The next 12 to 18 months are going to be tough. It’s going to be tough,” de Jong said. The government is also shrinking its surplus forecasts until 2015-2016.
The government believes the development of LNG projects represents a trillion-dollar economic opportunity that could create 100,000 jobs and help the province pay down its debt, which currently is at more than $62 billion and forecast to rise. Natural-gas revenues are forecast to reach $397 million this year, up from $169 million last year.
De Jong said the government is facing a prolonged period of belt-tightening, but it is going to put in place fundamentals that will ensure an economic recovery, including the development and export to Asia of liquefied natural-gas from northwest B.C. **

YUKON

**The board of the Great Northern Ski Society voted on Wednesday afternoon to begin to dissolve. Whitehorse City Council voted unanimously Monday night to reject the society’s most recent request for over $620,000. The society needed the cash  infusion to keep doors open over the summer. It had a projected shortfall of nearly $270,000 for this year. The city has offered to buy the chairlift. The ski hill will close down on July 2.**

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**After an initial refusal, the second time has been good: the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved on Thursday for $ 3.4 billion acquisition by Bell TV services and Astral radio.
It requires that Bell sells more than a dozen services, including Historia channels MuchMusic + Series, The Family Channel and Teletoon. The telecommunications giant will however retain its lucrative Movie Network.
When the federal agency had rejected the first version of the transaction in October, he held that the sale would give Bell too large a share of the television market and it would have created an unprecedented concentration of media.
In the first proposal, the CRTC had calculated that if Bell had bought Astral, the company would have held 42.7 percent of the market for English-language television and 33 percent of the French market. For this second version of the proposed transaction, the market share is less: it has been estimated that the control of the television market would be 35.8 percent in English and 22.6 percent in French.
Other major players in the market, including Rogers Communications and Quebecor, had harshly criticized the proposed transaction.
Cogeco Cable for his part expressed his disappointment, while expressing confidence that the control measures introduced by the CRTC will maintain a sufficient level of competition.**

Astronaut Chris A. Hadfield Mission Specialist Canadian Space Agency (CSA) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

**A few days before his official retirement, astronaut Chris Hadfield was honored Thursday for his outstanding achievements during his last mission in space. Mr. Hadfield was awarded Thursday of the Meritorious Service Cross by the Governor General of Canada, David Johnston, during a special ceremony at the offices of the Canadian Space Agency in Longueuil. He received the medal of the civil division, becoming the first Canadian to have been awarded both the military and civilian side.
The astronaut is also distinguished by being the first Canadian to command the International Space Station during its latest space mission. Mr. Hadfield has recently led a team of astronauts for five months. **

**Former premier Dalton McGuinty has been named a senior fellow at Harvard University, McGuinty, who governed Ontario from 2003 until last February, will decamp to Cambridge, Mass., for the fall semester at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. He retired as Ottawa South MPP two weeks ago after representing the riding for 23 years. Premier Kathleen Wynne succeeded him almost five months ago.**

27,June 2013     US    NEWS

**DAKAR, Senegal Mr. Obama made his way through the crowd on Thursday on Gorée Island in Senegal, and met with President Macky Sall of Senegal at the presidential palace in Dakar. People lined the streets as Michelle Obama visited an all-girls school in Dakar. America’s first black president spent about a half-hour inside the slave house on the edge of the water, walking quietly with his wife. Mr. Obama formally opened his visit to the African continent earlier in the day at the Palace of the President, to discuss opportunities for greater trade and investment that could bolster the economies of both countries. I see this as a moment of great promise and great progress for the continent, Mr. Obama said.
Chinese leaders have traveled extensively in Africa in the last several years, investing billions of dollars in infrastructure throughout the continent. China’s paying a lot of attention to Africa, Mr. Obama said in his news conference. Brazil, Turkey, India are heavily invested in trying to expand trade and commerce with Africa. For Mr. Obama’s administration, the weeklong visit to Africa is an important part of shaping policy regarding trade, security and human rights.**

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**TORONTO – A man who killed Anthony Smith outside a King Street nightclub entered a surprise guilty plea in court Thursday to a reduced charge of manslaughter. Smith was one of the men who stood arm in arm with Mayor Rob Ford in the infamous photo outside a west-end Toronto bungalow. **

**OTTAWA – The Court of Appeal of Quebec ruled that Ottawa does not have to transfer the data of the deceased Federal Register in Quebec, which wants to establish its own registry. There is a consensus in Quebec regarding the registration of firearms. All political parties represented in the National Assembly unanimously defend this position and strongly oppose the federal government’s decision to abolish the registry of firearms.
Superior Court ruled that Quebec had the right to obtain such data, and that the federal government could not unilaterally destroy.**

Français : Pauline Marois au Cégep de Chicoutimi (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

**MEXICO  – The Prime Minister Pauline Marois will meet this Thursday the president of Mexico, Enrique Pena Nieto. Ms. Marois made ​​the announcement during a brief media in Mexico City, where she is on an economic mission. This meeting was added to the agenda, which provided that appointments with ministers of the Mexican federal government.
The presidential palace Los Pinos, where Ms. Marois meet Mr Pena Nieto, the Prime Minister will be accompanied by the Ambassador of Canada to Mexico, Sara Hradecky.
Ms. Marois arrived Wednesday in the Mexican federal capital, after an initial step in the country’s second city, Guadalajara. The prime minister is leading a delegation of 56 companies.**

**CALGARY – Emergency responders with the city and Canadian Pacific are planning to pump petroleum-based materials from five rail cars that remain stuck on a partially collapsed Bonnybrook bridge that officials now say has stabilized somewhat. Rail cars at the north end and south end have been disconnected from the train and moved, the city stated in a 10:20 a.m. release. We are working to isolate the cars on the bridge, secure them and pump out their contents. Heavy duty fuel pumps are enroute. It is not known how long the process will take.
The city was first notified of the problem around 3:45 a.m. Thursday, and around 6:30 a.m. Calgary Emergency Management Agency director Bruce Burrell warned that the bridge was failing.
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27,June 2013        US   NEWS

**A former North Texas justice of the peace and his wife have been indicted on capital murder charges in the slayings of three people, including two prosecutors. A local grand jury indicted Eric and Kim Williams on Thursday.
The couple is accused of killing Kaufman County Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse, District Attorney Mike McLelland and McLelland’s wife, Cynthia. Hasse was shot outside the county courthouse in January, while the McLellands were killed in their home in March. Prosecutors allege Eric Williams was the gunman in both cases. Eric Williams is being held on a $23 million bond. His wife’s bond is $10 million.**

**Ecuador breaks US trade pact to thwart ‘blackmail’ over Edward Snowden, Government renounces Andean Trade Preference Act even as Snowden’s prospects of reaching Ecuador from Moscow dimmed. Ecuador has ramped up its defiance of the US over Edward Snowden by waiving preferential trade rights with Washington even as the whistleblower’s prospect of reaching Quito dimmed. President Rafael Correa’s government said on Thursday it was renouncing the Andean Trade Preference Act to thwart US “blackmail” of Ecuador in the former NSA contractor’s asylum request. **

**The US military has failed to prepare a realistic “plan B” if political turmoil forces the closure of a vital naval base in Bahrain, AFP reports citing a naval officer’s report released Monday. The Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain is the most US important maritime base in the Middle East but senior officers have become complacent about its future, Commander Richard McDaniel asserts.
The loss of the base “could leave the United States without a key maritime base during a critical juncture of heightened tensions in the Middle East,” wrote McDaniel. The author proposes the United States investigate alternatives in the Qatari capital Doha, where a large port is under construction, and in Shuabia, Kuwait, as well as ports in Oman.Rights groups have accused the United States of failing to use its leverage from the naval base to persuade Bahrain’s monarchy to address the grievances of protesters and ease a crackdown on dissent.
Since 2011, a Shiite-led uprising has demanded more rights from the ruling Sunni dynasty.**

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VANCOUVER

**City council voted unanimously Wednesday to proceed with two years of detailed planning for a future without the arterials into the downtown core, a decision many lauded as a transformative city building opportunity. The viaducts acted as the “great wall of Chinatown” and significantly contributed to the neighbourhood’s gradual decline over the past 40 years, said Carol Lee of the Vancouver Chinatown Foundation.**

WINNIPEG

**After confirming he won’t seek a third term as the University of Winnipeg’s president and vice-chancellor, Dr. Lloyd Axworthy told Wednesday not to expect to his name on ballots for political office of any level after he steps down next June.**

CALGARY

**Train derailment shuts down Deerfoot, Police, fire and EMS are on scene at a structural failure of the Bonnybrook rail bridge over the Bow River. Four cars are upright, but are off on the side of the tracks, There are no injuries, No word yet what the rail cars were carrying.**

YUKON

**Increase in electrical rates was approved Tuesday by the Yukon Utilities Board, though on a temporary basis – at least for now. The interim increase for Yukon Electrical Co. Ltd., together with the hike announced Monday for Yukon Energy, will see the average residential bill for the first 1,000 kilowatts rise from $130.36 a month to $145.60, beginning Monday.
The utilities board announced Tuesday it has accepted a request from Yukon Electrical for an interim increase of 6.5 per cent beginning July 1 for residential and commercial customers.**

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**With a major cabinet shuffle all but certain sometime this summer, speculation is again swirling around the futures of Defence Minister Peter MacKay and Public Safety Minister Vic Toews. MacKay’s long-time director of communications Jay Paxton announced this week that he is leaving the defence minister’s office at the end of the month.The news came less than a week after John MacDonell stepped down after seven years as MacKay’s chief of staff.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has asked his ministers whether they plan to run in the next election as he prepares to undertake a major cabinet shuffle in advance of a run to 2015. MacKay still has a great deal of clout and influence as former leader of the Progressive Conservatives, and there is no clear standard bearer for the faction should he decide to step down. Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Heritage Minister James Moore are expected to also be moved as Harper attempts to put a new face on his government for 2015.**

**Canada and the United States have reached an agreement on the future of the Peace Bridge,Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gary Doer, the Canadian ambassador to the U.S., said Wednesday that the agreement — reached after several days of high-level meetings — will speed up improvements to the Peace Bridge, one of the busiest border crossings between the U.S. and Canada. The agreement calls for three projects to be undertaken quickly and simultaneously: a study into widening the U.S. plaza, a pre-inspection project to have U.S.-bound cargo trucks examined in Fort Erie to reduce congestion and pollution on the American side of the crossing and an array of improvement initiatives for the U. S. plaza, including a traffic study.
The pre-inspection pilot project will “proceed immediately,” the agreement states, and will continue for up to 18 months.**

**The Quebec government has laid 928 charges against construction magnate Antonio Accurso and the firms that he used to administer, seeking fines of $8.5-million and jail terms over allegations of widespread tax fraud.
By agreeing to the plea deal with the federal taxation agency, Simard-Beaudry Construction Inc. and Louisbourg Construction Ltd. were affected in their ability to obtain government contracts, but there was no direct consequence for Mr. Accurso. The charges laid on Wednesday by Revenu Québec mean that Mr. Accurso faces a prison term if he is found guilty, and also that his future business dealings stand to be affected by the outcome of the case.The Quebec government has enacted new rules that prevent firms and individuals with a history of legal problems from obtaining government contracts.**

27,June 2013      US    NEWS

**Across the South, Republicans are working to take advantage of a new political landscape after a divided U.S. Supreme Court freed all or part of 15 states, many of them in the old Confederacy, from having to ask Washington’s permission before changing election procedures in jurisdictions with histories of discrimination.

**Hundreds of protesters cheered, clapped and shouted for the last 15 minutes of the special legislative session in an attempt to run out the clock before senators could vote on the bill, which is expected to close almost every abortion clinic in the nation’s second most populous state. Shortly after the vote, Dewhurst, the chamber’s presiding officer, retreated to his office and issued no statements.
According to Republicans and the official legislative website, the bill beat the deadline and now goes to Gov. Rick Perry, who directed that the legislation be taken up in the special session and is expected to sign it into law. Democrats immediately predicted a legal challenge and insisted the bill didn’t pass before midnight.The bill would ban abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy and force many clinics that perform the procedure to upgrade their facilities and be classified as ambulatory surgical centers. Also, doctors would be required to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles – a tall order in rural communities.
“If this passes, abortion would be virtually banned in the state of Texas, and many women could be forced to resort to dangerous and unsafe measures,” said Cecile Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Action Fund.**

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  **Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has suspended his director of operations and logistics, David Price, for a week without pay, the Toronto Sun reports. after D. Price called the Sun’s city hall bureau to complain about a headline but refused to identify himself, the newspaper reported. **

**EDMONTON – Former city hall executive assistant, Terry Demers, enters Edmonton council race for third time. Her campaign focus is on community safety, communication between council and residents and basic transportation services.**

**MONTREAL—French authorities have opened a front in the round-the-globe inquiry into corruption and bribes paid by Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin, Reims, company’s European headquarters, discovered a mysterious $13.5 million payment that had nothing to do with any of the company’s European contracts, according to the newspaper l’Union.
French authorities were alerted in July 2012 and quickly opened an investigation that involved local police in Reims as well as the country’s financial crime-fighting force, who began looking into whether the money was a kickback paid in order to secure contracts.
Last November, police executed search warrants at SNC-Lavalin International’s offices, reportedly seizing documents related to the awarding of a gas-plant contract in Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates. No charges have been laid against any SNC-Lavalin employees in the investigation. Revelations about the French inquiry put renewed focus on the ever-expanding probe of the Canadian company’s business conduct around the globe.
French investigators say they are working in concert with the RCMP, who have already laid criminal charges against several former SNC-Lavalin executives in Canada, as well as Swiss authorities, who are holding former vice president Riadh Ben Aissa in Geneva on suspicion of corruption related to contracts the company won in Muammar Gadhafi’s Libya. Most recently, Algerian authorities raided company offices as part of a judicial inquiry into suspicions of bribery paid to officials in that country.
Research on the case around the world begin.**

26,June 2013      US   NEWS

**Across the South, Republicans are working to take advantage of a new political landscape after a divided U.S. Supreme Court freed all or part of 15 states, many of them in the old Confederacy, from having to ask Washington’s permission before changing election procedures in jurisdictions with histories of discrimination. officials in Texas and Mississippi pledged to immediately implement laws requiring voters to show photo identification before getting a ballot. North Carolina Republicans promised they would quickly try to adopt a similar law. Florida now appears free to set its early voting hours.
Before the ruling, the formula required reviews for all of Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia; and parts of California, Florida, Michigan, New York, North Carolina and South Dakota. In Mississippi, the secretary of state said her office would begin enforcing a pending voter ID law for primaries in June 2014. North Carolina Republicans said they plan swift action on a pending voter ID bill.**

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EDMONTON

**Heavy rains flooded Edmonton streets Tuesday, forcing city officials to close many in the afternoon. Currently the river is very fast moving and has a lot of floating debris, making it very dangerous for both the public and first responders, the fire department said in a news release. Firefighters have responded to four water rescues since the river began rising on Saturday.
Environment Canada is calling for 20 to 30 millimetres of rain in the city Tuesday, with showers ending overnight.**

VANCOUVER

**Delegates from Colombia and Brazil hope to replicate Vancouver’s innovative approach to harm reduction around illegal drug use even as the Canadian government aims to impose stricter rules for opening supervised injection sites. Representatives of Viva Rio, a non-profit organization in Rio De Janeiro, and a government official from Colombia visited Insite, Vancouver’s safe injection site, on Tuesday, saying they’re looking for a way to lower the impact of drug use in their countries.**

WHITEHORSE

**The 2013 Canadian Road Championships Men Elite road race proved to be a very exciting race in St. Georges, Watson Lake cyclist Zach Bell is finally a Canadian road champion.**

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**Former Ontario PC leader John Tory says he is thinking about taking another run at the Toronto mayor’s chair, I have been in public life for a long time he said. Tory (24 per cent) would come in third, behind Olivia Chow (42 per cent) and Ford (27 per cent), according to the latest Forum Research Inc. poll, which surveyed 1,400 Torontonians on May 24. The poll, considered accurate within three percentage points.**

**An investigation into the administration of Côte-des-Neiges-Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (CDN-NDG) is necessary because of serious charges against the former management believes Project Montreal. Ensure that corruption is not a problem “systemic” across the district, said Tuesday Michael Simkin, federal official and candidate for mayor of CDN-NDG Montreal Project. The trained lawyer urged citizens to demand an investigation of the procedures in force in the former borough of Michael Applebaum, who was arrested last week by the Unité permanente anticorruption (UPAC), along with two other high ranking CDN-NGD.
Peter McQueen, a member of Montreal Project said it is essential that an independent organization will review the processes that govern the licensing office.**

**ExxonMobil is hoping to get the green light from Canada’s National Energy board to export 30 million tons liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year and build a new export terminal in British Columbia.This is the biggest export plan ever proposed for Canada’s west coast. The terminal would have six processing units for gas that would come from fields already owned by ExxonMobil and Imperial Oil Ltd, which is the company’s Canadian subsidiary.
If approved, Exxon would export 30 million tons of LNG per year—about one-third of Canada’s overall gas production–over a 25-year period.
Exxon is eyeing 2021-2023 for launch if regulators give it the go-ahead. Initially, the facility would produce between 10 million and 15 million tons of LNG annually, until it reaches full capacity. UK-based BG Group Plc is also seeking approval from Canadian regulators to export 21.6 million tons of LNG per year from Canada.**

26, June 2013       US     NEWS

**The Supreme Court on Tuesday effectively struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by a 5-to-4 vote, freeing nine states, mostly in the South, to change their election laws without advance federal approval. President Obama, whose election as the nation’s first black president was cited by critics of the law as evidence that it was no longer needed, said he was “deeply disappointed” by the ruling.
The law had applied to nine states — Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia — and to scores of counties and municipalities in other states, including Brooklyn, Manhattan and the Bronx. The majority held that the coverage formula in Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act, originally passed in 1965 and most recently updated by Congress in 1975, was unconstitutional. The current coverage system, Chief Justice Roberts wrote, is based on 40-year-old facts having no logical relationship to the present day.**

**Long-term Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward Markey beat out Republican newcomer Gabriel Gomez Tuesday in Massachusetts’ special election for John Kerry’s U.S. Senate seat. Markey had an advantage of about 8 percentage points over Gomez with most precincts reporting late Tuesday, according to unofficial returns. **

**President Barack Obama promising new rules to cut carbon emissions from US power plants and other domestic actions including support for renewable energy. President Obama also signaled he would block construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada if it contributed to climate change. Canada weighed in on Obama’s remarks, saying it did not think there would be a net increase in carbon emissions if the proposed pipeline from the Alberta oil sands to Texas is built, according to the country’s natural resources minister.
Obama’s allies abroad were watching closely. The president said Washington would lead the world in talks to fight climate change and reiterated his pledge to reduce US greenhouse gas emissions by roughly 17% below 2005 levels by 2020.The European Union said it wanted more than words: “Internationally, the White House plan contains a number of good intentions which have now to be translated into more concrete action,” said EU climate commissioner Connie Hedegaard.**

**President Barack Obama flies across the Atlantic on Wednesday for a trip that takes him to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania, his second visit to sub-Saharan Africa since taking office.The trip aims to bolster investment opportunities for U.S. businesses, address development issues such as food security and health, and promote democracy.
It comes as China aggressively engages the continent. The Asian nation is pouring billions of dollars into Africa, running oil and mining firms, and replaced the United States in 2009 as the largest trading partner.
Obama will be in Senegal Thursday and Friday. He arrives in South Africa on Saturday. He will spend Monday and Tuesday in Tanzania, and is expected back in Washington on July 3.**

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25, June 2013       CANADA     NEWS

**MONTREAL – The current chairman of the executive committee of Montreal, Laurent Blanchard became on Tuesday the new interim mayor of Montreal. Ultimately, Laurent Blanchard managed to get the support of 30 elected against 28 for his main opponent, Harout Chitilian, which was until recently as chairman. The only woman who took part in the race, the Lachine councilor Jane Cowell-Poitras, has meanwhile received three votes.**

**CALGARY – The Calgary power company boss said that by noon MT, about 18,500 people were without power in the city. About 130 underground vaults are still affected by floodwater, said Manes.Hydro workers are pumping out water in the Beltline to deal with underground substations and transformers, but it is slow going because the water keeps filling back up, she said. A number of areas are still off-limits to the public, including Prince’s Island, although the Peace Bridge has reopened to the public.
Officials are cautioning people that while disinfectants in the city’s water might make it taste funny, water is still safe to drink.**

**Former BlackBerry executive Jim Balsillie is being appointed to a five-year term as chair of Sustainable Development Technology Canada, a federal agency that helps companies in the emerging clean-tech industry. He has also had less public roles, including on a United Nations panel for global sustainability. The Harper government has allocated $325 million over eight years to SDTC to support the development and demonstration of new, clean technologies as part of its 2013 plan to assist the economy.**

25,June 2013       US    NEWS

**President Obama said Tuesday he will not approve the Keystone XL pipeline if building it would generate more greenhouse gas emissions than not constructing it. While the State Department is still conducting an environmental review of the massive pipeline that would ship crude oil from Canada to Gulf Coast refineries, The net effects of climate impact will be absolutely critical to determining whether this project will go forward.**

**Russian President Vladi­mir Putin said Tuesday that Edward Snowden is still holed up inside a secure “transit zone” at Moscow’s Sheremyetevo Airport, and he repeated that Russia has no legal standing to turn the fugitive document-leaker over to U.S. authorities. Putin said Snowden arrived in Moscow unexpectedly and had committed no crime in Russia. He has not crossed into a part of the airport that requires him to show his passport to Russian authorities. Because Russia does not have an extradition agreement with the United States, Putin said, Snowden will not be extradited as the United States has requested.**

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