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Embassy/Consulates Closure Notice
The US Embassy Ottawa and all US Consulates in Canada will be closed on Friday July 3, to observe Independence Day.
President Obama's 4th of July Message
Today, we are called upon to remember not only the day our country was born, but also the indomitable spirit of the first American citizens who made that day possible. We are called to remember how unlikely it was that our American experiment would succeed at all; that a small band of patriots would declare independence from a powerful empire; and that they would form, in the new world, what the old world had never known - a government of, by, and for the people. [more]
H1N1 Influenza (Flu)
The United States, Canada and Mexico continue to work together with international organizations in actively monitoring the H1N1 flu outbreak. For additional and latest information, please see the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website: www.cdc.gov [travel alerts][President Obama's remarks]
04 June 09
A New Beginning - Engaging the Muslim World
President Obama's June 4 Speech in Cairo, Egypt
I am honored to be in the timeless city of Cairo, and to be hosted by two remarkable institutions. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of Egypt’s advancement. Together, you represent the harmony between tradition and progress. I am grateful for your hospitality, and the hospitality of the people of Egypt. I am also proud to carry with me the goodwill of the American people, and a greeting of peace from Muslim communities in my country: assalaamu alaykum.
[more] [fact sheet]
03 June 09: Calgary
Calgary readers discuss Three Cups of Tea
American author David Relin engaged in a lively discussion about his best-selling book Three Cups of Tea with a group of Calgary readers. Speaking to the group via digital video conferencing (DVC), Relin touched on the related issue of international development efforts in southeast Asia and the realities and challenges of doing aid work in the region. Held the day following President Obama's historic speech to the Muslim world in Cairo, the Three Cups of Tea DVC generated a timely discussion that touched on U.S. foreign policy and American humanitarian work in southeast Asia. 
01 June 2009: Calgary
Acting Consul General visits Mustard Seed Ministry
Acting Consul General Daniel Fennell visited the Mustard Seed Street Ministry to learn more about the organization's work to address homelessness in the Calgary region. The Mustard Seed is a non-profit Christian humanitarian organization that works to foster rehabilitation to help the less fortunate get back on their feet through a broad range of progressive and innovative solutions.
28 May 09: Calgary
Afghanistan expert visits Calgary
Foreign policy expert Marco Vicenzino visited Calgary to discuss the new direction of the Obama administration's Afghanistan policy as well as wide range of other U.S. foreign policy issues. While in Alberta, Vicenzino met with representatives from the Canadian military and NGO community, students, foreign policy analysts and journalists.
Vicenzino engaged Canadian audiences in discussions on the current international aid and re-construction situation in Afghanistan, stressing the contributions that members of the NATO coalition are making and the importance of civilian engagement in that country's development. Vicenzino is the president and director of the Global Strategy Project, a Washington, D.C.-based non-partisan think-tank.
21-22 May 2009: Calgary / Lethbridge
Jefferson Science Fellow talks birds and brains with Canadian scientists and students
Cornell University neurobiology professor Timothy DeVoogd, the State Department's 2008/09 Jefferson Science Fellow, visited Alberta to meet with senior academics at the University of Calgary's Hotchkiss Brain Institute and the University of Lethbridge's Canadian Centre for Behavioural Neurobiology. Dr. DeVoogd discussed the potential for scientific collaborations with his Canadian peers, toured research and teaching facilities, and gave two lectures on his research into how birds learn to sing and what this can tell us about the human brain. Dr. DeVoogd's visit fostered new ties with Canadian scientists, researchers and students and engaged them in discussions around how the U.S. and Canada can deepen their cooperation in the fields of science and technology. [photos]
03 May 2009: Calgary
 Calgary Consulate participates in Battle of the Atlantic Ceremony
Acting Consul General Daniel Fennell represented the United States of America at the annual Battle of the Atlantic ceremonies held at the HMCS Tecumseh Naval Reserve. Fennell laid a wreath during the ceremony with Lt. Commander Paul Darling of the U.S. Navy Reserve Station in Spokane, Washington who travelled to Calgary to participate in the event. The annual ceremony commemorates members of the Royal Canadian Navy, Canadian naval reserve, merchant marine and RCAF Coastal Command lost during the Battle of the Atlantic between September 1939 and May 1945. [more]
30 April 2009: Calgary
 Calgary Consulate offers U.S. Foreign Service Test
The U.S. Calgary Consulate General in will offer the Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT) June 9-11, 2009. This three-hour exam is the first step in the selection process to become a U.S. diplomat. It will be held once per day at the consulate in downtown Calgary, starting at 1:30 PM. For more information about the FSOT visit http://careers.state.gov; or register at http://www.act.org/fsot/.
25 April 2009: Calgary
 One month until new passports rules take effect
The United States Consulate General in Calgary reminds residents in its consular district that, starting June 1, all Canadians and Americans will be required to present a passport or other document approved by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security when entering the United States at land or water border crossings. [more]
25 April 2009: Calgary
Consul speaks about friendship at Anzac Day ceremony
Acting Consul General Daniel Fennell participated in the 2009 Anzac Day ceremony to remember the service of Australian and New Zealand soldiers during the Gallipoli Campaign in 1915. At a morning Cenotaph ceremony organized by the Downunder Club of Calgary, Fennell spoke about common heritage and recounted the long history of military partnership the U.S. has enjoyed with Australia and New Zealand as well as Canada.
“Anzacs have been serving alongside U.S. forces for nearly a century,“ Fennell said. ”We are here this morning to commemorate our honored dead, but also to celebrate our continued friendship.”
Members of the Canadian armed forces, Canadian and American veterans and Calgary city alderman Dale Hodges also attended the Anzac Day service. [photos ]
29 March 09: Calgary
 Consul General Tom Huffaker leaves post
Consul General Tom Huffaker leaves his post today after serving in Calgary for three years. Huffaker is retiring from the U.S. Foreign Service after a 23-year career which included foreign assignments in India, Yugoslavia, Canada and Russia, as well as in Washington offices forming U.S. economic policy. Huffaker arrived in Calgary to take up his duties on August 14, 2006. He, his wife Claire and their two children plan to stay in Calgary, where Huffaker has accepted a position in the private sector with the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. With Huffaker’s departure, Daniel Fennell assumes the duties of acting consul general for Calgary, effective March 29. Fennell is a career diplomat, and has served as the deputy principal officer at the United States Consulate General since August 2007. He will remain acting consul general until a new senior officer arrives from Washington in the summer of 2009. [Read more]
26 March 09: Calgary
 Calgary women talk politics with Cokie Roberts
With the help of digital video technology, a group of Calgary women joined American journalist and political analyst Cokie Roberts for a lively discussion about the historical contributions American women have made to democratic politics. The digital video conference, hosted by the Calgary Consulate’s Public Affairs Office, brought together representatives from the Famous 5 Foundation, academics from the University of Calgary, and journalism students from Mount Royal College. Speaking from Washington, D.C., Roberts discussed her books, Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty which chronicle the important functions performed by women during the founding of the United States. Participants from Calgary, as well as Ottawa, Montreal and Halifax, asked Roberts questions about the role of women in democratic politics and the challenges facing female professionals and political candidates today, as well as her own experiences as a broadcaster and book author.
17 March 09: Regina
 Consul General Tom Huffaker visits Saskatchewan
Consul General Tom Huffaker spent St. Patrick’s Day meeting with Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and other provincial government officials. Huffaker was also introduced by Premier Wall in the House, and capped off his meetings with a visit to Government House to speak with Lieutenant Governor Gordon Barnhart. [more/see slideshow]
16 March 09: Regina
 Talking U.S. foreign policy with Canadian students
More than 100 undergraduate students at the University of Regina got a crash course on U.S. foreign policy under the Obama administration from Daniel Fennell, the Calgary Consulate's deputy principal officer. Fennell spoke to two classes of students keen to learn more about how policy gets developed and whether the U.S. foreign policy and the U.S.-Canada relationship would change significantly with new leadership in Washington. He told the group that the new Obama administration "continues to value the special bi-lateral relationship with Canada," and "the business relationship between Canada and the United States is the strongest between any two countries in the world." "Canada is a wonderful partner," Fennell added. [See slideshow]
11 March 09: Calgary
Celebrating 90 years of American Legion achievements
Deputy Principal Officer Daniel Fennell was invited to hand out service pins to Calgary-based members of the American Legion at a celebration to mark the 90th Anniversary of the Legion’s founding. The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic wartime veterans organization. Today, it boasts nearly three million members, men and women, in 15,000 American Legion posts worldwide. American Legion Canadian Post 20 in Calgary has been active since 1973.
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