Sitting on the tarmac at Heathrow waiting to depart for Ottawa gives me some spare time to crunch some Stats Canada numbers that have been sitting in my electronic inbox.... Census Metropolitan Areas (CMA) with the most visible minorities* *Visible minorities are defined, under federal law, as any non-Aboriginal, non-caucasian person. Toronto - CMA (Ont.): 2,174,065 Vancouver - CMA (B.C.) : 875,300 Montréal - CMA (Que.)
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Friday, May 30
A communications misstep undone at 36,000 feet
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DavidAkin
on Fri 30 May 2008 08:26 AM EDT
Minutes before we took off from Rome Thursday morning, the press secretary for Prime Minister Stephen Harper met reporters at the back of the plane with big news: The Italians were removing restrictions that kept their troops out of harm's way in Afghanistan.... But then, 40 minutes into the flight and 36,000 feet above Europe, Stewart-Olsen came to the back of the plane again, this time with a correction: Italy had not announced it was removing its caveats but was only considering removing them, news that had, in fact, been circulating for days.... One of my colleagues, who had been travelling with prime ministers since Pierre Trudeau had the job, could not recall any other instance when the PMO staff let reporters communicate with their editors back home using the PMO satellite phone. more »
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