November 9, 2008 -- November 15, 2008

The World Gears Up For Obama-nomics
Calgary Herald - AB, Canada
World markets are more interlinked today than they were when NAFTA was first negotiated in 1988. Even former US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has ...

Harper starts the ball rolling with President-elect Obama
The Gazette (Montreal) - Quebec,Canada
In that sense, if Obama were really serious about re-opening the NAFTA on environmental and labour standards, Harper would very quickly remind him that ...

Mexico: the next crisis
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
(Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images) Terror and a grim warning about future instability struck our NAFTA partner, Mexico, on the day Barack Obama was elected ...

SARAH: GIVE ME AD LIB-ERTY
New York Post - New York,NY,USA
Palin also addressed reports that she did not know whether Africa was a continent or a country and that she did not know the countries in NAFTA. ...

Palin Regrets Not Doing More Interviews; Again Denies Africa ...
ABC News - USA
On NAFTA, she told Van Susteren, "I remember that discussion, but there was never a question about, well, who are the participants in NAFTA? ...

Sarah Palin Defends Herself Against Criticism in First Post ...
FOXNews - USA
Along those same lines, of course, was the criticism that supposedly I didn't know who the participants in NAFTA were." Amid speculation nationwide about ...

Flaherty not reassured by talks with Obama advisers about free trade
The Canadian Press - TORONTO
Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said that if NAFTA is reopened, the countries need to talk about energy issues and energy security.

Obama not likely to renegotiate NAFTA, ex-ambassador says
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
Chretien, nephew of former prime minister Jean Chretien, seconded the view of a Belgium-based analyst who said earlier this week that a NAFTA re-negotiation ...

Obama's aides fail to appease Flaherty
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
Mr. Wilkins said he does not support president-elect Barack Obama's stated willingness to renegotiate NAFTA. Asked whether he was "reassured" that the US ...

Obama: fixing North America
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Now that governments are in charge of economies, the NAFTA partners should seize the opportunity to forge a brilliant energy/environmental policy that will ...

Now not the time for American protectionism: US ambassador
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
NAFTA has tripled since its inception, put food on the table for millions of Americans, millions of Canadians,' US ambassador to Canada David Wilkins said ...

Energy sales likely hot-button issue if NAFTA reopened: Cannon
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
"I'm sure that his (Obama's) officials view this NAFTA agreement pretty well in the same light as we do." The remarks by Cannon and Flaherty come in the ...

Obama won't wear well on Canadians
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
He appears to want to re-open NAFTA, and the Democrats are trade protectionists. And away from foreign policy, Mr. Obama supports the death penalty, ...

PCs' mixed messages to US
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
It announced that the Dow Chemical subsidiary intends to haul the Canadian government before a NAFTA arbitration panel after the Quebec government did a ...

Why are knives out for Palin?
Toronto Sun - Ontario, Canada
Again, supposedly not knowing the member nations of the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA) has been persuasively refuted by her. ...

Knowing when to walk away
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
His Rove-trained mind gets what the Nation's John Nichols reported: that the payout came with a 1994 election whose NAFTA taint delivered "a dramatic drop ...

The poor fit of Obama and Canada's left
Guelph Mercury - Guelph,Ontario,Canada
He appears to want to reopen NAFTA, and the Democrats are trade protectionists. And away from foreign policy, Obama supports the death penalty, ...

Oil could find other buyers
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
The threat to America's energy security came after Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said earlier this week he was not reassured on the future of NAFTA, ...

The worst economic system
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Three of its four largest economic expansions since the Second World War have occurred since the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement and NAFTA were signed. ...