Canada Politics News

Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper urged journalists to "shine light into the dark corners" at a speech last night. He waxed poetic about he need for the fifth estate to keep Freedom and honesty alive. This IS unusual..for most times...

I just wonder if Ditz is correct about the options being considered. Certainly there are now many signals that the administration wants to develop some type of exit strategy at the very least. However, Karzai is making soothing statements about...

Rather interesting to see big labour asking for help to small businesses and repeating the claim of organisations representing small businesses that they create most of the jobs in the US economy. The AFL CiO was a big supporter of...

The US is undertaking a thorough and thoughtful review of the treaty. Yes indeed it has been 15 years already since it signed the treaty. Neither the Clinton administration nor the second Bush Bush administration nor now the Obama administration...

The Nisga'as peoples of Northwestern British Columbia, Canada took an unprecedented step today when they instilled "property rights" to their band members. Having finally negociated a land claims settlement with both levels of Government some years back (after 100 years...

Although a lower court had ordered release of the photos that decision was appealed to the Supreme Court. However, congress gave Gates the power to make this order to keep the photos secret so the Supreme Court will probably not...

All the rankings are available at t his site . Iceland is not likely nearly as high up now as the statistics used are prior to its economic crash. United States is 13th and Canada is 4th. Although Netherlands 6th...

There seem to be strange signals emanating from various sources. The Ambassador Eikenberry has expressed reservations about sending more troops and even talked about the need for an exit strategy. There are also continuous rumblings about Karzai's corruption--as if Karzai...

Maybe it is more like the dollar doldrums as the currency weakens against many other currencies but it is probably early to announce its demise, that will be a slow and longer term process but inevitable it would seem. As...