CTV Videos, McCallum-China-Trade Mission-Vancouver, Bird Flu & More

CTV videos on Question Period and a panel on decriminalizing prostitution



Canada must strengthen ties with China: McCallum

Canada's Natural Resources Minister says he got an enthusiastic response from China on his trip promoting the sale of Canadian oil and gas.

On the CTV webpage, Oct. 24, 05 is a link to CTV Question Period: John McCallum in China

What did you expect Mr. McCallum to say?

Related: China's economic powerhouses launch trade mission to B.C. -- A delegation of 600 business and government officials arrives to talk trade Joanne Lee-Young, Vancouver Sun, Oct. 24, 05

More than six hundred business people and government representatives from Hong Kong and Guangdong province, China's economic powerhouse, are descending on the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre today to promote trade opportunities.

Their combined pitch to a B.C. business community eager to figure China out is simple: a world-class financial centre plus the factory of the world. [. . . . ]

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hosted by high-level dignitaries
Canadian executives who have tales to tell on investing in Hong Kong and Guangdong
Mike Rowse, director general of Invest Hong Kong, a government-backed promotion agency
an official trade agreement between Hong Kong and China, called the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement (CEPA)
signing of official contracts
projects ranging from large-scale



CTV webpage -- a link to Question Period: Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh

Canada well prepared for bird flu: Dosanjh

If a strain of bird flu ever mutated into a form able to spread easily among humans, there is a strong possibility it would reach Canada, Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh said, but officials are well prepared. [. . . . ]

There are other items: Peter MacKay, etc.

The Press Gallery dinner's rubber chicken Burkean Canuck, Oct. 24, 05



Who runs this joint, anyway? "British banks are banning piggy banks because they may offend some Muslims." LGF via Western Standard Shotgun, Oct. 24, 05, posted by Wonder Woman Oct. 24, 05

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