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Turning India's goodwill into trade dollars

Barefoot and wearing the required head covering, surrounded by jostling and shouting tourists, reporters and dignitaries, protected by Mounties and aggressive Sikh security men, Stephen Harper made his way Wednesday around the magnificent courtyard of ...

From JOHN IBBITSON, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Harper,  Barack Obama

India's terror connection highlights risk of nuclear deal

T he timing couldn't have been worse. Canada and India are in what both countries believe are the final stages of negotiating an agreement that would let us sell them civil nuclear technology. The deal should be signed “in the near future,” Indian Prime ...

From JOHN IBBITSON, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Manmohan Singh,  Stephen Harper

Canada in step with India on terror file

C anada will co-operate closely with India in investigating an alleged Canadian connection to last year's terrorist bombings in Mumbai, Prime Minister Stephen Harper promised today. Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a 48-year-old Canadian immigration consultant, ...

From JOHN IBBITSON, Globe and Mail,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Harper,  Tahawwur Hussain Rana,  David Headley,  Manmohan Singh

Harper's trade hopes for India are up against the realities of the street

For a moment, Stephen Harper came close to something approaching, for him, passion. “Where we are today is not where we ought to be,” he told a well-heeled crowd of Indian business leaders Monday. “We are good friends and partners, but we could be ...

From JOHN IBBITSON, Globe and Mail,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Harper,  Bollywood,  Akshay Kumar

From tragic to ridiculous in Mumbai

M UMBAI - There had been a speech to business leaders, a visit to a shot-up Jewish cultural centre, where people had died during last year's terrorist attack, and much else besides. But Stephen Harper's visit to Mumbai ended on a singularly spectacular, ...

From JOHN IBBITSON, Globe and Mail,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Harper,  Bollywood,  CBC

In India this week, Harper moves to reverse decades of distance

T here is no politics more local than a Canadian prime minister visiting India. Stephen Harper's whirlwind tour of the subcontinent this week includes visits to a Hindu temple in New Delphi – there is an identical copy in Toronto – that was attacked by ...

From JOHN IBBITSON, Globe and Mail,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Harper,  Sonia Gandhi,  Mahatma Gandhi,  Barack Obama

Leaders agree Copenhagen will focus on principles, not concrete goals

A sia-Pacific leaders have agreed to abandon any concrete goals for next month’s Copenhagen summit on climate change, settling instead for broad statements of principle, Stephen Harper confirmed Sunday. At the conclusion of the Asia-Pacific Economic ...

From JOHN IBBITSON, Globe and Mail,  15 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Harper,  Kevin Rudd,  Barack Obama

Globalization 3.0

S INGAPORE — For Barack Obama, the world has “reached one of those rare inflection points in history” in which the global economy must rebalance itself or face strife and decline. For Stephen Harper, not so much. The President’s address in Tokyo on ...

From JOHN IBBITSON, Globe and Mail,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Stephen Harper

Rolling up the Pacific rim to win

W hen Stephen Harper was born, Canada was an Atlantic nation. Today, it is increasingly a Pacific nation. The Prime Minister is starting to figure this out. Mr. Harper is in Singapore this weekend, attending the annual summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Co- ...

From JOHN IBBITSON, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Harper,  Paul Martin,  New York Stock Exchange,  NYSE,  G-20

U.S. facing tough questions at APEC

S ingapore - Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived in Singapore in the wee hours of the morning, local time, Saturday, having missed Friday the 13th, thanks to the mysteries of the International Date Line. The APEC summit of Pacific Rim leaders was to ...

From JOHN IBBITSON, Globe and Mail,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Harper,  John Key,  Barack Obama

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