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Poll: Liberals win Majority if Trudeau is Leader

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Since the defeat of Paul Martin’s Liberal Minority Government in  2006 by Stephen Harper’s Conservatives, the news has only gotten worse, an...
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Harper is ready to work with the Separatists

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper campaigned on having a “strong, stable, national Conservative Majority Government” to protect Canadians from a...
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NDP Win Landslide in Toronto-Danforth

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In a by-election today, Jack Layton’s old riding of Toronto-Danforth remained NDP as candidate Craig Scott won 59% of the votes.
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Conservative Majority: Five Months Later; The Reason Why it Came to Be

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Stephen harper may proudly pronounce that the Conservative Party is Canada’s party but if we look at the trends and the likely factors that ...
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Jack’s Final Words

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Jack Layton was a man who genuinely believed in what he stood for and that in politics is rare. Canada has lost an icon today and one that ...
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Jack Layton Passes Away

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At the age of 61, cancer won its last battle. At 4:45 am, Layton’s wife and children confirmed that he passed away.
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How Stephen Harper’s Misguided Decisions will Finish Canada Off

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In 2008, Stephen harper was reluctant to take notice of the coming recession and denied its existence until it hit hard. On the eve of the ...
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NDP Supporters can Stop Supporting Turmel Now, Party Insiders have lost Confidence

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It isn’t everyday that you hear of a federal opposition leader being secretly a part of a separatist party in the past. It isn’t everyday ...
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Who are the NDP? Separatists?

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The NDP may have chosen Nycole Turmel as their interim leader, but that doesn't change her previous separatist ties. While she claims ...
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Layton taking a Break From Politics to Fight New Cancer

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Jack Layton will be taking a temporary leave as leader of the NDP to fight a new ‘non-prostate’ cancer that has attacked him until September...
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The Dust Barely Settles after Back-to-Work Legislation becomes Law

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During the filibuster last week as the Conservatives tried to forcefully end the standoff between Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Pos...
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The NDP Inevitably Lost their Fight for Postal Workers

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Jack Layton imposed a 58 hour filibuster to try to stall a Conservative back to work bill that would do more than just send postal workers ...
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Opinion: Liberal-NDP Merger: A Disaster in the Making

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There has been a lot of speculation around Liberal-NDP merger and while the Liberal Party has swiftly stopped its main proponent Bob Rae fro...
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It May be Time for Canadians to Tighten Their Belts, but not the PMO

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As the Conservatives announced cuts and user fees to come to public services and new austerity measures, Stephen Harper used his business j...
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NDP Surge Gave Tories Majority Government

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A new poll finds that the NDP surge wasn’t a fluke, but instead is here to stay, however, that didn’t stop 16 seats from going blue as a res...
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Harper’s Response to Quebec Flood Victims ‘an Insult’

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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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A Twist in Canadian Politics, the NDP Come in Second–Not Without Controversy and Diverse Faces

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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...
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Conservatives win a majority government

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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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