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Car insurance to be obligatory on federal roads
Car insurance to be obligatory on federal roads
According to the Toronto Globe and Mail, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has cancelled a planned trip to Canada in June in protest at Prime Minister’s Stephen Harper’s refusal to discuss the issue of visas for Mexican travelers to Canada.
Some 150 Venezuelans living in Guadalajara made a beeline for the Minerva Fountain Sunday to add their voice to the protests against President Nicolas Maduro currently rocking the South American nation.
A week after Guadalajara city hall launched a program to illuminate city buildings at night, lights all across the metro area will be turned off for one hour on Saturday, March 29 as the world unites in a symbolic gesture designed to generate greater awareness for the environmental hazards facing the planet.
U.S. President Barack Obama Wednesday joined the growing fraternity of admirers of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, praising his package of reforms that he said “promise to make Mexico more competitive and increase opportunity for its people.”
When Vicente Fox became president of Mexico in 2000 he made history as the “terminator” of the 71-year-long rule of Mexico’s staid old party.
There were smiles, toasts and plenty of kind words for each other but Tuesday’s meeting between Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was not exactly the love-in between major trade partners that it may have appeared on the surface.
The space drama “Gravity” won seven Oscars at last Sunday’s 86th Academy Awards, including best director for Mexico’s Alfonso Cuaron, the first Latin American to be bestowed with such an honor.
You might already be consuming Canadian food products every day, even if you don’t realize it.