The opening weekend of the Vancouver 2010 Games was not without controversy. International Heads of State and a Cabinet Minister were thrust into the spotlight to deal with Games related controversies.
Friday’s opening ceremonies were overshadowed by the tragic death of a Georgian luger. This unfortunate event prompted a range of emotions from Games officials, athletes [...]
Fleishman Hillard senior strategist, and expatriate Canadian, Dan Baxter recently completed an assignment in FH’s Beijing office before moving on to Brussels. In a sort of valedictory, he offers very useful guidance in the online publication PublicAffairsAsia on how to be an effective public affairs advocate in China. While the Chinese government may seem [...]
As my colleague Kevin pointed yesterday, President Obama did raise some salient points in his State of the Union address. Obama made statements that were relevant to both American and Canadian audiences about taxes, but I must admit I was more impressed by Prime Minister Harper’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, [...]
J’ai accepté l’invitation dans le but ultime d’approfondir mes connaissances au sujet du conflit israélo-palestinien et surtout, pour comprendre l’impact qu’a le conflit sur la vie quotidienne des Israéliens et sur leur économie.
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Fleishman-Hillard, Brussels Fleishman-Hillard Canada
The Copenhagen Climate Conference did not meet most expectations. After two weeks of negotiations and several weeks of media coverage and NGO hype, world leaders delivered a three-page non-binding political declaration (the ‘Copenhagen Accord’) that fails to provide a successor to the Kyoto Protocol, expiring in 2012.
The text mentions that global [...]
Thoughts on the COP15 Cop-Out

