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The Logic Behind the Conservatives’ Plan for Healthcare Transfers
The Conservatives have announced that cuts will be made to healthcare and let’s face it, it had to happen sooner or later. While the Conserv...
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Canada’s Healthcare System: Not Underfunded; Inefficient and Mismanaged
Regular users of the Canadian Healthcare system know that something isn’t right. The system is broken, inefficient and mismanaged. It has be...
Government of Canada ordered to Pay Jean Chretien Over Sponsorship Case
The election of 2006 was an election where the Conservatives placed repeated attacks against the Liberal Party for something called ad scam....
Helena Guergis sues PM Harper and Conservative Party
Helena Guergis is suing Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Party of Canada over defamation and an alleged conspiracy plan to...
Reasons why Canada’s Management System Needs Rethinking
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Canadians pay a lot of money every year. They pay a GST and PST or HST, they pay income taxes, they pay payroll taxes, they pay municipal pr...
Government Officials Take Tax Payers for a Ride
Peter Mackay came under fire again this week as his hotel spending came to light and it isn’t pretty. Mackay wasn’t alone, information has ...
Quebec’s NDP Wave Died Out–Harris-Decima Poll
A new Harris-Decima poll suggests that the NDP is now tied with the Bloc Quebecois for first place in the province. At 26% a piece, the NDP ...
What Goes Around Comes Around
Jack Layton’s last attack in the May 2011 was aimed squarely at Michael Ignatieff and his Liberals. Touting that the NDP had a superior atte...
Conservatives Scramble with Budgeting
There is a $10 billion average difference between estimated structural budget balance forecasts between the Conservatives and budget watchdo...
Chretien: Gun Registry, Kyoto and Wheat Board are Dismantled… What’s Next?
Former Liberal PM Jean Chretien is warning Liberals that the Gun Registry, Kyoto Accord, and Wheat Board may just be the beginning in a Cons...
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The Future of Medicare in Canada
A lot of speculation has been put into the way that Harper is going to deal with the upcoming healthcare accord. If there is one thing we kn...
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Conservative Misspending on G8/G20 Summit Revealed; Brace Yourselves
You can throw efficiency, accountability, prudent management and logic out the window with the current Conservative government. Instead of d...
Canada’s Political Scene: Filled with Irony
The state of our country and the state of our government can be described flawlessly with irony. It is ironic how the Conservatives won th...
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Commons Theater, A Production fresh out of College
The NDP have added life to the House of Commons on Thursday as they exchanged an array of literature with their Conservative counterparts. A...
The Call for Smaller and More Efficient Government
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The Liberal rebuilding process will be an interesting one to watch. While media commentators have written them off, membership has soared. I...
Conservative Fined for Breaking Election Rules
It appears the ‘tough on crime’ Conservatives aren’t as worthy of that title as we think. In an ongoing dispute with Elections Canada, the C...
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Conservative Economic Record Gets Slammed
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Liberal Interim Leader Bob Rae slammed the Tory’s recent financial statement and offered up his own recipe to fixing Canada’s ailing economy...
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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Clueless
With the recent protests against Wall Street and Corporations, the NDP will likely be making political gains – they are after all, the anti-...
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Canada’s Top Soldier thinks He is Entitled to Taxpayer Funded Plane Rides
All across the country, Canadians are buckling down as income slows and prices rise. As we speak, there is speculation of another recession ...
Jack’s Final Words
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 ...
Jack Layton Passes Away
At the age of 61, cancer won its last battle. At 4:45 am, Layton’s wife and children confirmed that he passed away.
How Stephen Harper’s Misguided Decisions will Finish Canada Off
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
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?
The NDP may have chosen Nycole Turmel as their interim leader, but that doesn't change her previous separatist ties. While she claims ...
Layton taking a Break From Politics to Fight New Cancer
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...
Who should be entitled to child benefits?
Ottawa-area father Yannick Cloutier raised 2 children on his own for 8 years. Recently, he moved in with a common-law spouse and two years...
The NDP and Conservatives Fail to Make Public Safety Top Priority
The Champlain Bridge is crumbling down but for both the NDP and Conservatives, it isn’t a big issue. With the NDP only releasing a small sta...
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Ethics Commissioner: Helena Guergis Broke Ethics Rules
Ethics commissioner Mary Dawson released a report today saying that former Conservative MP Helena Guergis broke ethics rules when she wrot...
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Stephen Harper’s Misunderstanding of Where He Stands in the Public Eye
At the Calgary Stampede Barbeque, Harper took an opportunity to do what he does best: attack his opposition. However, his pitch to convince...
European Broadband Makes North American Broadband look like expensive Dialup
If you leave Canada and the United States and go to England, you will notice a big difference in terms of your internet connection. Not only...
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Harper’s Controversial Quotes
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On April 25, a 500 page document was allegedly handed to the Liberal Party of Canada by Conservative insiders that contained an organized in...
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The Dust Barely Settles after Back-to-Work Legislation becomes Law
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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Nanos Poll Gives Tories 14 Point Lead
A new Nanos poll shows the end of the NDP honeymoon as their poll numbers are slipping. Meanwhile, the Conservatives are growing, the Libera...
The NDP Inevitably Lost their Fight for Postal Workers
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...
Baird Condemns the Probe into $50 million in spending as a “PR stunt”
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The controversy over the G8 summit didn’t die as the Tories desperately try to defend themselves after $50 million that was supposed to be ...
Canada Going Backward on Crime Initiatives
The Americans have been fighting the war on drugs for more than 20 years with their tough-on-crime agenda. However, the Americans are now mo...
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Harper’s Department Broke Expense Rules
The government’s tough rules for hospitality spending have been repeatedly broken by Stephen Harper’s own department, an internal report su...
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Appointed Conservative Senators Change Their Tunes on Senate Reform
While the provinces of Ontario and Quebec were quick to pounce on Harper’s proposed senate reforms, it turns out that Harper’s newly minted ...
Conservative Party goes at Full Steam Ahead
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The Conservatives are going full steam ahead with their agendas. The throne speech went through without debate or a vote, Baird defends the...
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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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Flaherty intends to copy the Liberals
The Conservatives promised that they would get us out of deficit by 2014. However, such a promise won’t be visible in the upcoming budget ...
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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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