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Venezuela ordered to pay Canadian miner Rusoro more than $ 1.2 billion
29-Aug-2016 Toronto Star
An international arbitration tribunal has ordered Venezuela to pay a Vancouver-based mining company more than $1.2 billion for expropriating its gold mines.
Trudeau’s China trip sparks fears of bad deal for workers
29-Aug-2016 The Tyee
Beijing’s trade agreement with Australia allows Chinese companies to use their own workers. Is Canada next?
Regulatory harmonization in international trade: A categorical or conditional imperative?
26-Aug-2016 Global Policy Journal
The idea that regulatory convergence leads to "more trade" stands on weak empirical grounds.
Jordan to evaluate free trade agreements — Anani
25-Aug-2016 Jordan Times
Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Jawad Anani said that Jordan will revisit all its free trade agreements to assess their benefits to the Kingdom.
Growing protest against TTIP and CETA trade agreements in Germany
24-Aug-2016 Deutsche Welle
Hundreds of thousands of protesters are expected to take to the streets in several German cities to rally against plans to move forward with two key international trade agreements - one year after a similar protest managed to attract similar numbers.
EU members unsure how to apply CETA, 2 months from signing
20-Aug-2016 CBC
Leaked meeting notes posted earlier this month by ’Politico Europe’ suggest that as recently as July 15, countries couldn’t agree on what parts of the agreement should apply when.
Three more reasons why we need to stop CETA
16-Aug-2016 Common Dreams
A major topic of discussion at the World Social Forum in Montreal was the problems with TTIP-style free trade agreements and how we can stop them, writes Nick Dearden
Bear Creek Mining Corporation v. Republic of Peru (ICSID Case No. ARB/14/21) – public hearing
15-Aug-2016 ICSID
​A hearing on jurisdiction and the merits in the case will be transmitted live via internet feed from 7-14 September 2016.
How the Dutch could derail CETA
9-Aug-2016 New Internationalist
As thousands discuss free trade at the World Social Forum in Montreal, Canada’s experience with NAFTA may offer lessons for the Netherlands, writes Niels Jongerius
EU trade policy ‘close to death’ if Canada deal fails
3-Aug-2016 Politico
Fears grow that Brussels is losing control of one of its core competencies.
TPP will have negative consequences for Canada’s auto sector, study says
21-Jul-2016 BNN
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal will have negative consequences for the auto sector in Canada, an analysis of the automotive measures in the agreement says.
UK turns to Canada for advice on striking post-Brexit trade deals with EU
18-Jul-2016 The Guardian
Canadian minister in talks about how it secured Ceta trade deal with Brussels, which took seven years to finalise
Romania, Bulgaria, Canada seek to unlock CETA by solving visa dispute
15-Jul-2016 EurActiv
Meetings in various formats have been held between Canada, the European Commission, Bulgaria and Romania, in an effort to avoid a possible veto from Sofia and Bucharest on the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)
Prime Minister Trudeau signs Canada-Ukraine free trade agreement
12-Jul-2016 Financial Post
The trade deal is seen as politically important given Ukraine’s efforts to escape from Russia’s influence.
CETA’s specter of corporate dictatorship still haunts Canada, EU
8-Jul-2016 Counterpunch
CETA, like its cousins TTP and TTIP, would cement into place the right of multi-national corporations to dictate to governments without any democratic input.
Britain supports EU free trade deal with Canada despite Brexit
7-Jul-2016 Toronto Sun
Britain has assured Canada it will push for speedy ratification of the mammoth free trade deal with the European Union, despite its intention to leave the 28-country bloc
Canada prepares to lift Romanian visa rules to smooth way for EU trade deal
6-Jul-2016 CBC
The next move toward ratifying Canada’s trade deal with the European Union is set when Immigration Minister John McCallum is expected in Brussels to resolve Canada’s long-standing visa dispute with Romania and Bulgaria.
TPP heightens urgency for national drug coverage in Canada
6-Jul-2016
Adopting a national pharmacare program would offset the higher drug prices expected with the ratification of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, write Tanishq Suryavanshi and Jake Hirsch-Allen.
Member states claw back control over CETA
6-Jul-2016 EurActiv
National parliaments will have their say over the trade deal struck between the EU and Canada but once ratified by the Council and the European Parliament, the agreement could enter into force provisionally..
CETA and TTIP threaten the EU’s precautionary principle
4-Jul-2016 EurActiv
Le principe de précaution pourrait passer à la trappe dans les accords de l’UE avec le Canada et les États-Unis. Et remettre en cause les interdictions du bœuf aux hormones ou des OGM