Latest Canada – United States relations Stories
LONDON, May 2, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With emerging political, economic and diplomatic concerns quickly arising in the Arctic, nations with a stake in the region are now investing heavily in the northern frontier to amend a long-running lack of infrastructure and assets capable of dealing with the rigors of the environment. Recognising the demand for joint force integration, senior representatives from the United States Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and the North American...
New Venture Creates Online Destination for Established and Emerging Voices on All Things Youth Culture NEW YORK and PURCHASE, N.Y., April 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Mountain Dew® and Complex Media today announced a partnership that supports the evolution of the beverage brand's legacy programs - Green Label Sound, Green Label Art and Green Label Exclusives - with the launch of www.Green-Label.com, a new digital destination with a focused mission to cover the voices and stories of...
President Obama Delivers State of the Union Address, Focuses On Infrastructure Investment and Manufacturing Jobs WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following President Barack Obama's State of the Union address last night, Association of Equipment Manufacturers (AEM) President Dennis Slater issued the following statement: "Last night, President Obama used his State of the Union address to express the need to create jobs and grow our economy. I couldn't agree more....
BOSTON, Feb. 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As more U.S. retailers cross the border in hopes of tapping the potentially lucrative Canadian market, they should take care to educate themselves about the nuances of Canada's diverse and relationship-driven business environment, writes Bradley W. Snyder, a Boston-based managing director of Tiger Capital Group, in a Jan. 25 column published by Chain Store Age Online. "Far too many U.S. businesspeople see Canada as something akin to a 51st...
PURCHASE, N.Y., Oct.18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mountain Dew® announced today it will premiere a new commercial on Saturday, October 20, marking the culmination of the DEWeezy Project, a partnership with Grammy Award-winning recording artist, Lil Wayne. To view the multimedia assets associated with this release, please click: http://www.multivu.com/mnr/58613-mountain-dew-new-commercial-lil-wayne-deweezy-project-stoked (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121018/MM93764 ) In...
Citing departure from existing 'Buy America' preferences, CABC offers solution for amended language in the Senate surface transportation reauthorization bill WASHINGTON, May 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For 25 years, the Canadian American Business Council (CABC) has supported efforts to update and improve infrastructure and spur economic growth and job creation on both sides of the Canada/U.S. border. However, upon learning about latest provisions announced to the Moving...
Amgad Shehata, VP Strategic Development and Public Affairs, UPS Latin America, Caribbean & Canada, next Board Chairman WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As the economies of Canada and the United States have developed over the last 25 years, one organization has been a steady voice behind greater cooperation between these two nations - the Canadian American Business Council (CABC). Founded in 1987, the organization has worked with leaders from the private...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Lumber Coalition today welcomes the announcement by the U.S. Trade Representative that the United States and Canada have agreed to extend the 2006 Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) for a period of two years. The SLA will now remain in effect through October 2015 - extending a period of stability and predictability to trade in softwood lumber products between the two nations. "The Softwood Lumber Agreement is a...
BLUE BELL, Pa., Nov. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS) is assisting the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency in opening the first pedestrian border crossing in El Paso, Texas, that deploys a combination of gate systems, mobile handheld devices and radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to more efficiently identify and process pedestrians crossing the border into the U.S. Additionally, ten fingerprint biometric capture devices are included in the...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Coalition for Fair Lumber Imports today welcomes United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk's decision to initiate arbitration under the Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) to address timber pricing practices in the British Columbia (BC) Interior that circumvent the SLA. Since the spring of 2007, the British Columbia Government has sold BC Interior lumber producers enormous amounts of timber that was improperly classified as 'lumber...
