The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navanethem Pillay, a South Africa-born judge on the International Court of Justice, at an announcement in Oslo this morning.
asserted
Prize → award → Oslo
Navanethem Pillay wins Nobel Peace Prize
Former United Nations human rights chief Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, a judge on the International Court of Justice, won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in Oslo, Norway.
asserted
Pillay → win → Oslo
The South Africa-born Pillay, 85 years old, was recognized for her efforts to promote peace and international law, said Jorgen Watne Frydnes, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.
asserted
Frydnes → bear → Committee
Pillay’s work “is a source of hope and inspiration to all those who seek to bring about a more peaceful world,” Watne Frydnes said announcing her win.
asserted
Frydnes → seek → win
The Canadian modernist poet Anne Carson, the new Nobel laureate in literature, was recognized for “her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”
asserted
that → recognize → literature
Science reporter Ivan Semeniuk profiled the Nobel recipients in the categories of medicine, physics and chemistry.
asserted
Semeniuk → profile → medicine
First Nation lodges challenge to Pacific pipeline
Cold Lake First Nations issued the first legal challenge to the federal government over Ottawa’s decision to designate the Pacific Link oil pipeline a priority in the national interest that is worthy of fast-tracking.
asserted
that → lodge → tracking
The project would carry one million barrels a day from Bruderheim, Alta., to Roberts Bank, B.C.
The context: Cold Lake sits in the middle of oil sands development in Northern Alberta.
asserted
Lake → carry → Alberta
Prime Minister Mark Carney has repeatedly tied approval of Pacific Link to the carbon capture project called Pathways, which would include a pipeline that would transport carbon trapped at oil-sands facilities to an underground hub near Cold Lake, Alta.
asserted
that → tie → Lake
Pacific Link last week became the first major project to be identified as a national priority under the federal Building Canada Act, which provides an accelerated route through regulatory approvals.
asserted
which → become → approvals
Details emerge about resettlement of Nazi collaborators
The federal government has declassified portions of a 40-year-old report on the resettlement of Nazi war criminals that reveal details of how dozens of people, including those suspected of collaboration with the Third Reich, were helped to come to Canada through a secret CIA program.
asserted
dozens → emerge → program
According to the newly unredacted text, the RCMP reported to Ottawa in 1954 “that some forty persons had been presented for admission” the previous year by the U.S. Army’s resettlement branch in Europe.
uncertain
persons → accord → Europe
Another section says that U.S. intelligence personnel “could well have assisted persons with war criminal background to immigrate to Canada.”
uncertain
persons → say → Canada
Paying tribute to Jarislowsky
asserted
Paying → pay → Jarislowsky
Billionaire investor Stephen Jarislowsky, a champion of corporate governance and former spy who has died at 101, made his name as a pioneer advocate for shareholder rights, engaging in public battles with CEOs, family businesses and boards of directors.
asserted
who → die → directors
Late in his career, he became a philanthropist who supported the study of democracy.
asserted
who → become → democracy
Obituary: The investment guru crusaded for shareholder rights and was a sharp-tongued critic of underperforming executives.
asserted
guru → crusade → executives
Jarislowsky was the Leonardo da Vinci of the Canadian business world, a true polymath, business historian Joe Martin writes.
asserted
Martin → write → world
The Take
I’m confident that after this referendum goes up in flames, separatist leaders in Alberta will insist they will live to fight another day.
asserted
they → ’m → day
My suggestion: they form their own separatist party and put themselves up for election.
asserted
they → form → election
Meantime, they should desist from undertaking any meetings with officials from the U.S. government in which Alberta’s future is discussed.
asserted
future → desist → which
When Alberta’s Oct. 19 referendum history is written, its inevitable defeat will be placed at the feet of those who agitated for it in the first place, Gary Mason argues.
asserted
Mason → write → place
The Shot
Francophone cowboy culture is alive and kicking in Saint-Tite, Que., which stages Canada’s largest Western festival east of the Calgary Stampede.
asserted
which → kick → Stampede
The Wrap
What else we’re following
At home:
asserted
we → follow → home
The federal government is talking with First Nations about partnerships as it seeks new private investors for the country’s four largest airports, Transport Minister Steven MacKinnon confirmed.
asserted
MacKinnon → talk → airports
Abroad: Canadian mining companies would stand to benefit from an economic agreement with Angola, a resource-rich African target of Ottawa’s global trade diversification effort.
asserted
companies → stand → effort
Doctors who receive gifts or payments from pharmaceutical companies end up prescribing more frequently, and choosing less suitable medications, a review of medical studies in the U.S. and Europe concluded.
asserted
review → receive → U.S.
Startups are hiring low-paid gig workers to train AI-powered humanoids on manual labour.
asserted
Startups → hire → labour
Video replay is a scourge on baseball because it eliminates the personal touch and the intervention of fate, Cathal Kelly opines.
asserted
Kelly → eliminate → fate
How is stigma around menopause symptoms affecting women and the economy?
asserted
stigma → affect → women
We answered reader questions.
asserted
We → answer → questions
What to watch: The hunt for a great Canadian Thanksgiving special turns up only turkeys – but there are always foreign shows and the CFL.
asserted
hunt → watch → turkeys
The Aporia
