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U.S. retailing giant Target Corp. said Thursday it is buying more than 200 Zellers Inc. stores ahead of its much- anticipated arrival in Canada.
The deal with Hudson's Bay Co., which owns Zellers, will see it pay $1.8 billion to acquire the leasehold interests in as many as 220 sites now operated by Zellers.
Target said it will no...See MoreU.S. retailing giant Target Corp. said Thursday it is buying more than 200 Zellers Inc. stores ahead of its much- anticipated arrival in Canada.
The deal with Hudson's Bay Co., which owns Zellers, will see it pay $1.8 billion to acquire the leasehold interests in as many as 220 sites now operated by Zellers.
Target said it will now be able to open its first Canadian stores starting in 2013. It plans to open 100 to 150 outlets throughout the country in 2013 and 2014, laying the foundation for what it called a "more robust presence" over time.
Zellers will sublease these sites from Target and continue to operate them under the Zellers banner for a period of time. Target said it will invest more than $1 billion renovating the leased locations.
"This transaction provides an outstanding opportunity for us to extend our Target brand, Target stores and superior shopping experience beyond the United States for the first time in our company's history," Gregg Steinhafel, Target's chairman, president and chief executive officer.
"We believe our investment in these leases will strengthen the surrounding communities as well as create strategic and financial value for Target stakeholders."
In June 2010, Target confirmed that it was considering expansion into Canada and other international markets, but did not confirm where it would open stores.
Hudson's Bay said in a statement Thursday that it was also anticipated that a number of Zellers locations will be assigned to other retail enterprises.
Zellers, which first opened its doors 80 years ago, was purchased by Hudson's Bay in 1978.
Meanwhile, Steinhafel said Target's chief marketing officer, Michael Francis, will lead the company's move into the Canadian market.
"Under Michael's leadership, Target has emerged as one of the most recognizable brands in the world and I am pleased that he will guide our expansion into Canada," Steinhafel said in a separate statement.
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Hosni Mubarak resigned Friday. Two important steps in the months ahead, post-Hosni Mubarak, could be constitutional reforms and a new round of parliamentary elections.
After 18 days of demands for freedom from the Egyptian people, Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power Friday, bringing a moment of intense joy and jubilation for millions of ...See MoreHosni Mubarak resigned Friday. Two important steps in the months ahead, post-Hosni Mubarak, could be constitutional reforms and a new round of parliamentary elections.
After 18 days of demands for freedom from the Egyptian people, Hosni Mubarak stepped down from power Friday, bringing a moment of intense joy and jubilation for millions of Egyptians.
Pride, tears, joy: Egyptian-Americans celebrate Egypt's new beginning Mubarak steps down. What comes next for the Egyptian revolution? With Egypt's Mubarak out, the question is 'Who is Omar Suleiman?' Yet as historic and awe- inspiring as the day was, the departure of the man who ruled the country for almost 30 years only underscored the idea that change in Egypt has just begun.
“This is not the end of Egypt’s transition,” President Obama said in a statement delivered at the White House Friday afternoon. “It’s a beginning.”
As Mr. Obama said, the “privilege to witness history taking place” did not change the fact that “many questions remain unanswered.” The questions that floated just beneath the euphoria included: whether the authoritarian regime was indeed over, how a country of weak political institutions and few opposition leaders would organize a transition, and whether Egypt could both transform itself and remain a stable force in the region.
“This has got a long way to play out,” says Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York. Using the analogy of a baseball game, Mr. Haass said Thursday that Egypt was “squarely in the bottom of the second inning” – and that Mr. Mubarak’s resignation, as significant as it would be, would still advance Egypt only “to the third inning.”
As unimaginable as Mubarak’s resignation might have seemed just three weeks ago, many foreign-policy analysts are echoing Haass’s words with the perspective that the hard part of Egypt’s transition is still to come.
“Mubarak leaving office is only the first step in Egypt’s political transition and will not resolve Egypt’s ongoing political crisis,” says Brian Katulis, a specialist in national-security policy in the Middle East at the Center for American Progress in Washington.
Saying “what Egypt needs is a full reboot of its political system,” Mr. Katulis lists constitutional reforms and a new round of “free and fair parliamentary elections” as two essential steps in the months ahead.
But before that can happen, the question of Egypt’s transitional leadership looms. “It remains unclear whether the Egyptian people will accept Vice President [Omar] Suleiman as an interim leader,” he says.
And then there is the role of the military. Egyptians were showering accolades on the soldiers in their midst Friday, but in the post-euphoric days ahead, how will the people respond to the reality that the country’s Supreme Military Council has taken control of the state’s affairs?
In his remarks Friday, Obama quoted Martin Luther King Jr. in saying, “There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom,” and he lauded in particular Egyptian youths. His remarks brought out several themes that the president has emphasized since the beginning of the crisis: Political reform must be inclusive and “bring all of Egypt’s voices to the table,” it must continue to be nonviolent, and it must respond to the “boundless aspirations” of Egyptian youths.
This suggests that the administration is sticking by the “core principles” that Vice President Joe Biden elaborated to Mr. Suleiman earlier this week: that there must be no recourse to violence by anyone and no suppressive actions by the government in the transition period; that the Egyptian people must be able to exercise their universal rights, including assembly and expression, and democratic rights including the freedom to choose their civilian leaders; and that the political reform must be “meaningful, lasting, and immediate,” in the words of the White House.
To accomplish that, the Obama administration has demanded that Egypt’s emergency law be rescinded immediately, to allow for the legal assembly and political organizing that will be necessary if robust and representative political parties are to spring up.
The crux of Obama’s words was remarkably close to the reaction from European leaders in Brussels – suggesting that the United States and the Europeans have been in close contact on how best to present pressure for change without coming across as imposing their views.
The European Union said in a statement that “an orderly and irreversible transition towards democracy and free and fair elections is the shared objective of both the EU and the Egyptian people.” Egypt’s political dialogue must now be “accelerated, leading to a broad-based civilian government which will respect the aspirations of, and deliver stability for, the Egyptian people,” the statement said.
America’s close relations with the Egyptian military will be crucial as the transition process moves forward, European officials in Washington said – especially given the big (though as yet unclear) role the military will be playing in Egyptian affairs. Obama singled out the military, saying it had served “patriotically and responsibly” during the protests and would now have to “ensure a transition that is legitimate in the eyes of the Egyptian people.”
The days ahead, says Haass of CFR, will be tricky and will require that Egypt’s interim powers offer genuine signs of forward movement, even as the Egyptian people refrain from demanding that things change too fast. “You’ve got to avoid the two extremes of chaos,” he says – “too much too soon” on the one hand, “but also stasis, or just standing still.”
Some Egyptians were already expressing a cautious view on how quickly the political transition would occur, with opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei saying it could take a year to prepare for elections.
One thing to watch for in terms of the military in the days ahead, Haass says, is the extent to which it is able to play its interim role without slipping into politics. “The more [the Army] becomes a political actor, the more it loses some of its above-politics legitimacy,” he says. If the military loses that legitimacy, he adds, Egypt risks losing a key institution for its transition process.
by Weeky Lee
Feb 26, 2011
British Columbia’s next premier is Christy Clark.
Liberal party members, who spent the day casting ballots by telephone and on the party’s website, selected Clark by a slim margin — she received 4,420 points compared to 4,080 for Kevin Falcon on the third ballot.
Mike de Jong was dropped on the first ballot; George Abbot was...See MoreBritish Columbia’s next premier is Christy Clark.
Liberal party members, who spent the day casting ballots by telephone and on the party’s website, selected Clark by a slim margin — she received 4,420 points compared to 4,080 for Kevin Falcon on the third ballot.
Mike de Jong was dropped on the first ballot; George Abbot was dropped on the second ballot. Their supporters’ second choices were then distributed to the remaining candidates.
First round results were 3,209 points for Clark, 2,411 points for Falcon, 2,091 points for Abbott, and 789 points for de Jong.
Second round results were 3,575 points for Clark, 2,564 points for Falcon and 2,361 points for Abbott.
Clark needed 4,251 points to declare victory. Points are calculated out of 100 in each riding and then added up provincially.
B.C. Liberal members voted from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m. today.
The results were announced just after 6 p.m to an assembled room of party faithful at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
Numerous Liberal MLAs and cabinet ministers, most of whom had chosen sides among the four candidates, gathered in the convention hall.
The new leader will replace Gordon Campbell, who announced Nov. 3 he’d step aside over his deeply unpopular handling of the harmonized sales tax. The new leader will be sworn in as premier by the lieutenant governor in the coming days or weeks.
Campbell did not attend the leadership event, but is set to be honoured by the party during an event in the spring.
Four candidates were running for party leader, former health minister Kevin Falcon, former attorney general Mike de Jong, former education minister George Abbott and CKNW radio host Christy Clark.
The unveiling of a winner capped a busy day of last-minute wrangling by the leadership campaigns, which were trying to ensure supporters got out and cast their ballots.
The Liberal party has said almost 90,000 paid members were eligible to vote, however it faced a last-minute snafu when numerous members did not receive personal identification numbers necessary to vote in the race. Despite suggestions the race be delayed, the party executive vowed to push ahead and said it would open toll-free help hotlines and allow members to access PINs via the Internet.
Polls were open from 5 a.m. to 5 p.m., and members cast ballots through the Liberal website or a telephone hotline.
The ballots were counted through a computerized system and converted into a share of 100 points available in each riding. The totals were added for the province’s 85 ridings, and the winner needed at least 4,251 points to declare victory.
The new premier now faces some tough decisions over the next provincial budget, the HST referendum and reconvening the legislature.
Finance minister Colin Hansen tabled a budget earlier this month that gives the incoming administration almost $1 billion in wiggle room for its new programs and agenda.
by Otto Schmidt
Mar 10, 2011
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by Caustonfan
Mar 25, 2011
rime Minister Stephen Harper will visit the Governor General on Saturday to dissolve Parliament, setting the stage for a federal election in early May.
The Harper government was defeated in the House of Commons on Friday on a non-confidence motion declaring the government in contempt of Parliament.
It is the first time in Canadian...See Morerime Minister Stephen Harper will visit the Governor General on Saturday to dissolve Parliament, setting the stage for a federal election in early May.
The Harper government was defeated in the House of Commons on Friday on a non-confidence motion declaring the government in contempt of Parliament.
It is the first time in Canadian history that a government has been found in contempt.
The Liberal motion passed by a vote of 156 to 145, as the opposition parties teamed up to topple the Conservatives.
The campaign for Canada's 41st election is expected to officially begin Saturday morning, when Harper is expected to visit Rideau Hall to ask Gov. Gen. David Johnston to dissolve Parliament. Canadians will be going to the polls for the fourth time in roughly seven years.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he was "disappointed" in the vote against his government and argued that Canadians would be too. He scolded the opposition parties for rejecting the government's budget, tabled this week by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.
"There was nothing, absolutely nothing, in the budget that the opposition could not or should not have supported," Harper said in a brief statement in the House of Commons foyer.
"Unfortunately Mr. Ignatieff and his coalition partners in the NDP and the Bloc Quebecois made abundantly clear that they had already decided that they wanted to force an election instead — Canada's fourth election in seven years, an election Canadians had told them clearly that they do not want."
Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff said his party will offer a "compassionate, responsible" alternative to the Conservatives during the campaign.
He invited disillusioned progressive conservatives and Canadians concerned about social justice to "come on into the big red tent, at the centre, the compassionate heart of Canadian politics."
But he was again hounded by questions about whether he would consider forming a coalition with one or both of the other opposition parties if the Liberals don't win the most seats. Ignatieff stuck to his position that he wants to form a Liberal government.
"I am here with this team of proud Canadians to create a Liberal alternative to the Conservative government. Let me make it more clear: If you vote for the NDP, if you vote for the Greens, if you vote for the Bloc, you'll get more of this and Canadians are saying enough," he told reporters.
NDP leader Jack Layton said the New Democrats have a track record of working with other parties.
"I'm running for prime minister, I'm running to lead the largest party in the House of Commons, and then to work with the mandate that Canadians give me, reaching out to other parties as required," he said.
Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe accused the Conservatives of flouting the rules of democracy. "This government also presents a backward, narrow ideology that doesn't represent the values and interests of Quebecers. The Harper government has turned its back on Quebec," he said.
A parliamentary committee recently recommended the government be found in contempt for failing to provide enough information about the costs of its crime legislation.
Speaker Peter Milliken ruled earlier this month that, "on its face," the government appeared to have breached the parliamentary privilege of MPs by refusing to release the information.
The non-confidence motion stated: "That the House agree with the finding of the Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs that the government is in contempt of Parliament, which is unprecedented in Canadian parliamentary history, and consequently, the House has lost confidence in the government."
The vote will be seen as a formal finding of contempt against the government, because the motion clearly used the word "contempt" and was approved by the Commons, said one constitutional scholar.
"This will go down in the history books as a finding of contempt," said Ned Franks, a professor emeritus at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.
The Conservatives hold 143 of the 308 seats in the Commons. The Liberals hold 77, the Bloc Quebecois, 47, and the NDP, 36.
There are two independent MPs, Helena Guergis and Andre Arthur, and three vacant seats.
Government house leader John Baird accused the opposition of putting their lust for power above the interests of Canadians.
"I'm saddened that a Parliament which has accomplished a lot recently will come to an end because of the reckless actions of the Liberal, Bloc Quebecois and NDP coalition in forcing an unwanted and unnecessary election on Canadians," he said.
Baird noted the opposition parties hold a majority on the committee that recommended the government be found in contempt of Parliament.
"What they aren't telling Canadians is that this was an opposition-stacked committee, who used the tyranny of the majority to get the predetermined outcome they wanted," Baird said. "They were the ones who demonstrated real contempt for Parliament, and they will have to answer to the Canadian people for that."
It is only the sixth time in history the federal government has been defeated on a confidence vote in the House of Commons. Previously, that had only happened to minority governments under Arthur Meighen in 1926, John Diefenbaker in 1963, Pierre Trudeau in 1974, Joe Clark in 1979 and Paul Martin in 2005.
The mood was electric in the packed Commons as MPs prepared to vote early Friday afternoon.
Afterward, a handful of opposition MPs threw up sheets of paper that fell to the green Commons floor like confetti.
Party leaders will fan out across the country on Saturday to begin a campaign expected to end May 2.
Harper is expected to make his first stop in Quebec City. Ignatieff will hold a rally in Ottawa before travelling to Montreal for his first campaign stop. NDP leader Jack Layton will kick off his campaign in Edmonton and Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe will also be in Montreal.
The Conservatives plan to focus on the economy, arguing a change of power would undermine the still-fragile recovery at a time when it faces threats such as Middle East turmoil, fallout from the tsunami in Japan and ongoing debt troubles in Europe.
The opposition parties will put the spotlight on what they describe as the Conservatives' lack of ethics and accountability.
The opposition will point to a string of recent controversies around the Tories, including charges that Conservative officials breached Canada's election law and allegations that a former adviser to the prime minister was lobbying for deals that would have benefited his fiancee, a former escort.
A new poll suggests the Conservatives hold a commanding lead in public support heading into the campaign. The Conservatives command 43-per-cent support among decided voters, putting them well within reach of a majority, according to an Ipsos Reid commissioned by Postmedia News and Global National.
The Liberals registered 24-per-cent support, the NDP are at 16 per cent, the Bloc at 10 per cent, and the Green Party at six per cent.
by Johnsonstreetbridgefan
Apr 9, 2011
It's the end of the line for the rail portion of the famed Johnson Street Bridge. Here is some footage of the final raising of the bridge before it is to be replaced with a new one early next year. Enjoy!
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