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Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Harper’s Response to Quebec Flood Victims ‘an Insult’
While Manitoba controls its flood and got two Prime Ministerial visits and plenty of support, Quebecers are left to deal a retreat of Canadi...
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Thursday, May 26, 2011
Liberals choose Bob Rae as Interim Leader
The Liberal Party of Canada has chosen Bob Rae to set the framework for the future of the party that will be handed off to another leader i...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Layton’s New Job
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Jack Layton has always had a fighting spirit, and he must be so happy that Harper has a majority. This may sound insane, but Harper having ...
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Conservatives will reap the benefits
Stephen Harper has a lot to smile about. He won a majority government with only 39.6% of the vote – imagine if he would have had to try to g...
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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Conservatives Expand the Cabinet and the Senate
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Conservative-minded people are supposed to take a minimalist mind to government. Reduce state intervention, reduce state size, reduce state ...
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
WikiLeaks: US Held off on Arctic Sovereignty Claim To Avoid Influencing the 2008 Election
WikiLeaks has leaked a diplomatic cable that suggests that in fear of influencing the outcome of the 2008 election – which gave Harper’s Co...
Monday, May 16, 2011
Ministers want Action Plan Signs to be Permanent
The Action Plan signs that act to promote federal stimulus projects are popular with Conservative cabinet ministers. The signs are so popul...
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Conservative,
Economy,
Election,
Harper
Sunday, May 15, 2011
NDP Gain Quebec Conservative Seat Via Recount
A judicial recount of the ballots cast on May 2 granted the New Democratic Party another seat in Quebec. On election night, Bernard Généreu...
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Conservative,
Election,
NDP
Saturday, May 14, 2011
WikiLeaks Strikes Again… This time Concerning the Arctic and Afghanistan
The Americans just aren’t buying Harper’s arctic promises, but instead thinks that it is nothing more than a political joy ride, a WikiLeak...
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Arctic,
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Harper,
Population,
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Saturday, May 14, 2011
Kiss the Surplus by 2014-15 Goodbye – It was only a ploy to get your vote
The election results are barely a week old and the Globe and Mail Reports that the revised 2011 budget that will be presented next month wi...
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Supreme Court of Canada makes ruling
The Supreme Court of Canada decided that private government documents should remain private after the case was initially brought to the cour...
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Conservative,
Harper,
Liberal,
Population
Saturday, May 14, 2011
The Irony… This Week’s most Ironic Stories Surrounding the Government of Canada
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There are a few pieces of irony that accompany this week’s news stories… These ironies consist of the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision to ...
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Saturday, May 7, 2011
Is There Something Wrong With Canada’s Electoral System?
If you take the results of this election – percentage-wise and compare the actual seat count with the hypothetical based on proportional rep...
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Friday, May 6, 2011
A Twist in Canadian Politics, the NDP Come in Second–Not Without Controversy and Diverse Faces
In Monday’s election, the NDP was handed 102 seats in the House of Commons in a silencing Conservative majority mandate. Among these 102 ca...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Conservatives win a majority government
The Results are in, the Conservatives won a majority government which secures them for 4 years of uninterrupted power. They and the NDP wer...
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Sunday, May 1, 2011
Election is Tomorrow: Conservatives ban more protesters from rallies and their Record Highlighted
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From the student to the environmentalist to this, a father and his wife who claim they are nobodies but are denouncing Harper’s Conservative...
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