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Halifax International Security Forum
Halifax International Security Forum (also Halifax Forum or HFX) is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. It is a forum and network for international government and military officials, academic experts, authors and entrepreneurs. Halifax Forum addresses global security issues. The forum is best known for its annual security summit at The Westin Nova Scotian in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The meeting brings together more than 300 delegates from over 70 countries and has been referred to by Canadian media as "The Davos of international security". This summit is the only event of its kind in North America. The 13th Halifax Forum was held from 19 to 21 November 2021. History The Halifax International Security Forum was founded in 2009 as a program within the German Marshall Fund of the United States, with financial support from the Canadian government. Its annual meeting is held in Halifax in mid-November, usually the weekend before US ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Halifax commonly refers to: *Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada *Halifax, West Yorkshire, England * Halifax (bank), a British bank Halifax may also refer to: Places Australia *Halifax, Queensland, a coastal town in the Shire of Hinchinbrook *Halifax Bay, a bay south of the town of Halifax Canada Nova Scotia *Halifax, Nova Scotia, the capital city of the province **Downtown Halifax **Halifax Peninsula, part of the core of the municipality **Mainland Halifax, a region of the municipality *Halifax (electoral district), a federal electoral district *Halifax (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district **Halifax County, Nova Scotia, the county dissolved into the regional municipality in 1996 *Halifax Harbour, a saltwater harbour *Halifax West, a federal electoral district since 1979 Prince Edward Island *Halifax Parish, Prince Edward Island British Columbia *Halifax Range, a mountain range United Kingdom *Halifax, West Yorkshire, England **Halifax (UK Parliament con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MEG Energy
MEG Energy is a pure play Canadian oil sands producer engaged in exploration in Northern Alberta. All of its oil reserves are more than below the surface and so they depend on steam-assisted gravity drainage and associated technology to produce (heavy bitumen must first be brought to the surface). The company's main thermal project is Christina Lake. 85-megawatt cogeneration plants are used to produce the steam used in SAGD which is required to bring bitumen to the surface. The excess heat and electricity produced at its plants is then sold to Alberta's power grid. Its proven reserves have been independently pegged at and probable reserves (also called recoverable resource) (by engineering firm GLJ Petroleum Consultants Lt; That's significant considering only of the of bitumen in Alberta is considered recoverable under current technology. The value of those reserves is over $19.8 billion. China National Offshore Oil Corporation, CNOOC has a minority 16.69% interest in M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Brison
Scott A. Brison (born May 10, 1967) is a Canadian former politician from Nova Scotia. Brison served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the riding of Kings-Hants from the 1997 federal election until July 2000, then from November 2000 to February 2019. He was the first openly gay MP to sit as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 2003, just days after the Progressive Conservatives and the more socially conservative Canadian Alliance voted to merge into the Conservative Party of Canada, Brison crossed the floor to join the Liberal Party. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Brison graduated from Dalhousie University. After entering Parliament in 2000, he served as the Minister of Public Works and Government Services from 2004 until 2006 in the Paul Martin government. In 2005, he was named by the World Economic Forum (WEF) of Davos, Switzerland, as one of its "Young Global Leaders". In Opposition from 2006 to 2013, Brison has served as the Liberal Party's Finan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. It is the world's largest and most familiar international organization. The UN is headquartered on international territory in New York City, and has other main offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna, and The Hague (home to the International Court of Justice). The UN was established after World War II with the aim of preventing future world wars, succeeding the League of Nations, which was characterized as ineffective. On 25 April 1945, 50 governments met in San Francisco for a conference and started drafting the UN Charter, which was adopted on 25 June 1945 and took effect on 24 October 1945, when the UN began operations. Pursuant to the Charter, the organization's objectives include maintaining internationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minister Of National Defence (Canada)
The minister of national defence (MND; french: ministre de la défense nationale) is a minister of the Crown in the Cabinet of Canada responsible for the management and direction of all matters relating to the national defence of Canada. The Department of National Defence is headed by the deputy minister of national defence (the department's senior civil servant), while the Canadian Armed Forces are headed by the chief of the defence staff (the senior serving military officer). Both are responsible to the minister of national defence. The King (represented by the governor general of Canada) is Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Forces and has final authority on all orders and laws for the "defence of the realm". The minister is responsible, through the tenets of responsible government, to Parliament for "the management and direction of the Canadian Forces". Any orders and instructions for the Canadian Armed Forces are issued by or through the chief of the defence staff. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harjit Sajjan
Harjit Singh Sajjan (, ; born September 6, 1970) is a Canadian politician who has served as the minister of international development since October 26, 2021. A member of the Liberal Party, Sajjan represents the British Columbia (BC) riding of Vancouver South in the House of Commons, taking office as member of Parliament (MP) following the 2015 election. Sajjan served as the minister of national defence from 2015 to 2021. Before his entry into politics, Sajjan worked as a detective in the Vancouver Police Department and was a lieutenant-colonel in the Canadian Army. He is Canada's first Sikh minister of national defence, and was also the first Sikh Canadian to command a Canadian Army reserve regiment. Early and personal life Sajjan was born on September 6, 1970, in Bombeli, a village in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab, India. Born into a Saini Sikh family. His father, Kundan Sajjan, was a head constable with the Punjab Police in India, and is currently a member of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Global News
Global News is the news and current affairs division of the Canadian Global Television Network. The network is owned by Corus Entertainment, which oversees all of the network's national news programming as well as local news on its 21 owned-and-operated stations. Corus also operates several talk radio stations under the "Global News Radio" brand. The same division also operates a news website under the same brand. National programs Global's lineup of national news and current affairs programming is as follows: * '' The Morning Show'': Weekdays 9:00 a.m. ET/CT/MT/PT, 10:00 a.m. AT. Jeff McArthur and Carolyn MacKenzie host the Morning Show. * '' Global National'': Nightly 7:00 p.m. NT, 6:30 p.m. AT/ET, 5:30 p.m. CKWS/CHEX/CT/MT/PT, 6:00 p.m. Kelowna and Montreal. Global National is anchored by Dawna Friesen from Monday to Thursday and Farah Nasser from Friday to Sunday. * '' The West Block'': Sundays 10:00 a.m. PT/MT, 11:00 a.m. ET/CT, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Clark (journalist)
Tom Clark (born 1952/1953) is a Canadian former television journalist. A longtime reporter and anchor for ''CTV National News'' and CTV News Channel, he moved to Global News in 2011 before retiring from journalism in 2016. Currently, he serves as Chair, Public Affairs and Communications at Global Public Affairs. Personal Clark was born in the early 1950s (1952 or 1953) to Joseph Adair Porter Clark and Patricia Grant, and raised in Toronto. He graduated from Upper Canada College in 1971. He is fluent in both English and French. Clark attended Carleton University to study journalism, but left for a news job in Montreal. Clark comes from a family of journalists: * great-grandfather Joseph Thomas Clark was managing editor of the ''Toronto Star'' and ''Saturday Night'' * grandfather Joseph William Greig Clark (1896–1956) RAF aviator and reporter for the ''Toronto Star'' * father Joseph Adair Porter Clark (1921–2013) was the founder, CEO and President of Canada NewsWire * great-u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jonathan Tepperman
Jonathan Tepperman is an author, journalist, and expert on international affairs. He is currently the Editor in Chief of ''The Catalyst'' and a Senior Fellow at the George W. Bush Institute''.'' From 2017 to 2020 he was Editor in Chief of ''Foreign Policy''. Before that he served as the Managing Editor of ''Foreign Affairs'', and before that, as Deputy Editor of ''Newsweek International''. His critically-acclaimed first book, The Fix', published in 2017, tells the stories of how countries around the world have solved some of the most difficult challenges. Early life Born and raised in Canada, he lives in Brooklyn with his family. Tepperman is Jewish. Career After studying law and starting his career freelancing in the Middle East, Tepperman first joined ''Foreign Affairs'', the magazine published by the Council on Foreign Relations, in 1998 under Fareed Zakaria. He spent several years at the magazine as a junior editor before moving on to Newsweek in 2006. There he was Deputy Edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petr Pavel
Petr Pavel (born 1 November 1961) is a retired Czech army general who served as the Chair of the NATO Military Committee from 2015 to 2018, and as Chief of the General Staff of the Czech Army from 2012 to 2015. He is a candidate in the 2023 Czech presidential election, to be held in January 2023. Education Pavel graduated from the military gymnasium in Opava. He continued his military study at the Military University of the Army in Vyškov, graduating in 1983. He joined the Czechoslovak Army as a Paratrooper, serving as a platoon leader. In 1985 he joined the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, remaining a member until the fall of the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia in 1989. Pavel continued his military studies at the Military Academy in Brno (currently united with the University of Defence) from 1988 to 1991. Military career Bosnia After graduating, Pavel worked in the military intelligence service (1991–1993). He served in the Czechoslovak troop contingent of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tawakkol Karman
Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Khalid Karman ( ar, توكل عبد السلام خالد كرمان, Tawakkul 'Abd us-Salām Khalid Karmān; also romanized ''Tawakul'', ''Tawakel''; born 7 February 1979) is a Yemeni Nobel Laureate, journalist, politician, and human rights activist. She leads the group "Women Journalists Without Chains," which she co-founded in 2005. She became the international public face of the 2011 Yemeni uprising that was part of the Arab Spring uprisings. In 2011, she was reportedly called the "Iron Woman" and "Mother of the Revolution" by some Yemenis. She is a co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, becoming the first Yemeni, the first Arab woman, and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize. Karman gained prominence in her country after 2005 in her roles as a Yemeni journalist and an advocate for a mobile phone news service denied a license in 2007, after which she led protests for press freedom. She organized weekly protests after May 2007 expanding the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint Mary's University (Halifax)
Saint Mary's University (SMU) is a formerly Catholic, public university located in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. The school is best known for having nationally leading programs in business and chemistry, as well as one of the best Canadian women's basketball programs. The campus is situated in Halifax's South End and covers approximately . History Founding Saint Mary's is the second oldest English-speaking and first Roman Catholic initiated university in Canada. The Roman Catholic church founded Saint Mary's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1802. It was established in Glebe House, on the corner of Spring Garden Road and Barrington Street, with the aim of extending educational opportunities for Catholic youth and training candidates for the clergy. In 1840 the Nova Scotia Legislature bestowed the degree granting charter to Saint Mary's and eleven years later granted the university formal legal status. Saint Mary's collapsed in 1883, but was revived in 1903 by Cornelius O'Bri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
