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Coalition redux: Things fall apart
Ottawa :: Canada | about 12 hours ago
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We were tantalizingly close to removing the Harper government and replacing it. Today, I offer some of the highlights of what happened over the following few days, from my perspective. The coalition – signed and sealed, approved by all three opposition...
Tags: prime minister, Mr. Harper, Stéphane Dion, Mr. Dion, Stephen Harper, Canadian Press, Liberals, Liberal Party, House of Commons, NDP, Canada, Ottawa, Bob Rae, Universitￃﾩ Laval alumni, Jack Layton, Politics, Michael Ignatieff, Stￃﾩphane Dion, Canadians of German descent, Canadians of Scottish descent
Former Ecole polytechnique student says government can't let registry die
Montreal :: Canada | about 20 hours ago
Credibility A survivor of the murderous rampage at the Ecole polytechnique says the government will have blood on its hands if the controversial federal gun registry dies and there is a spike in firearm-related killings. Heidi Rathjen, a former engineering student...
Tags: ecole polytechnique, Canada, Montreal, Universitￃﾩ de Montrￃﾩal, ￃﾉcole Polytechnique massacre, Marc Lￃﾩpine, School shooting, Jack Layton, Social Issues, Gun politics, Canadian Firearms Registry, Polytechnique, Canadians of Scottish descent, Engineer's degree, Michael Ignatieff, Canadians of German descent
Walking the 'unbelievable' Great Wall
Ottawa :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility B adaling, China — Stephen Harper will be devoting much of this day to meeting with the senior leadership of the Chinese government and Communist Party...The Prime Minister and his wife Laureen travelled 80 kilometres northwest of Beijing to briefly tour...
Tags: Stephen Harper, prime minister, China, minister stephen, Beijing, finance minister, great wall, stimulus spending, wife laureen, stimulus reports, Canada, Ottawa, Politics, Jim Flaherty, Canadians of German descent, Business Finance, Canadians of Irish descent, Domestic policy of the Harper government, Wen Jiabao, Harper, Hu Jintao, Economic policy of the Harper government, Jack Layton, Badaling, Barack Obama, Canada ￢ﾀﾓ People's Republic of China relations, Foreign policy of the Harper government, China economic stimulus program, Public finance, Federal Reserve System, Fiscal policy
Coalition redux: Things come together
Quebec :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility O n Monday I posted a piece here titled “ The Prime Minister makes a big mistake ,” narrating the Conservative government’s foolish attempt a year ago to bankrupt the opposition, its failure to address the economic crisis and the resulting decision by...
Tags: Canada, Quebec, Universitￃﾩ Laval alumni, Liberal Party of Canada, Jack Layton, Politics, Jean Chrￃﾩtien, French Quebecers, Canadians of German descent, Stephen Harper, Canadians of Scottish descent
Afghan abuse memos released
Ottawa :: Canada | 2 days ago
Credibility The military police watchdog agency agreed Wednesday to release censored versions of Richard Colvin's emailed warnings on Afghan detainees previously withheld by the government from a parliamentary committee. The package of Colvin emails, and government...
Tags: afghans detainees, House of Commons, national security, Stephen Harper, Afghanistan, prime minister, Ottawa Citizen, Richard Colvin, Canada, Ottawa, Politics, Human rights abuses, War in Afghanistan, Canadian Afghan detainee abuse scandal, War Conflict, Human rights in Afghanistan, Peter MacKay, Michael Ignatieff, Canadians of Scottish descent, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Morality, Crimes against humanity, Year of birth uncertain, Irene Mathyssen, Criminal law, Bob Rae, Helena Guergis, Military of Canada, Canadians of German descent, Military Police Complaints Commission, Jack Layton
Coalition redux: The shape of the deal
Ottawa :: Canada | 3 days ago
Credibility Liberal House Leader Ralph Goodale and Ottawa policy consultant Herb Metcalfe led the Liberal team. Dawn Black, a wise veteran NDP Member of Parliament, and I represented the NDP...I soon found him to be a smart, friendly, thoughtful political adviser...
Tags: Herb Metcalfe, Mr. Goodale, Liberals, NDP Member of Parliament, Mr. Dion, Jack Layton, prime minister, governing accord, Allan Blakeney, policy accord, Canada, Ottawa, Universitￃﾩ Laval alumni, Liberal Party of Canada, Politics, Jean Chrￃﾩtien, French Quebecers, Ralph Goodale, Canadians of German descent, Stephen Harper
Wrong way? So what
Ottawa :: Canada | 4 days ago
Credibility I t used to be the case that if more voters thought the country was “going in the wrong direction,” more voters thought it was time to change governments...To some degree this has to do with the fact that perceptions of Stephen Harper have been improving...
Tags: Canada, Ottawa, Politics, Canadians of Scottish descent, Canadians of German descent, Stephen Harper, Canadian parliamentary dispute, Liberal Party of Canada, Jack Layton, Stￃﾩphane Dion, Conservatism in the United States, Universitￃﾩ Laval alumni, Politics of Canada, Michael Ignatieff, Pierre Trudeau
Liberals 'skating' on HST stand
Ontario :: CA :: USA | 6 days ago
Credibility When the going gets tough in politics, the tough start skating. That was Bob Rae's candid admission on Friday, while struggling to tell reporters how Liberals would be dealing with the troublesome issue of the harmonized sales tax and a looming vote next...
Tags: HST, sales tax, Ontario, Liberal Party of Canada, Politics, Canadians of Irish descent, Franco-Ontarians, Harmonized Sales Tax, Bob Rae, Taxation in Canada, Sales taxes, Goods and Services Tax, Jack Layton, Young Liberals of Canada, Canadians of Scottish descent, Russian nobility, Jim Flaherty, Michael Ignatieff, Ontario Liberal Party, Stephen Harper, Ignatieff, Robert Ghiz, Dalton McGuinty
Happy anniversary!
Ottawa :: Canada | 7 days ago
Credibility And now the Liberal MP for Montreal’s Mount Royal riding wants nothing less than a public apology from Stephen Harper's government. Oh, and he also wants a written apology at the expense of the Conservatives sent to each household they targeted with their...
Tags: Irwin Cotler, liberal mp, Canada, Ottawa, Politics, Liberal Party of Canada, Religious persecution, Peter Milliken, Mount Royal, Antisemitism, Jack Layton, Stￃﾩphane Dion, Speaker of the British House of Commons, Canadians of Scottish descent, Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, Russian nobility, Jason Kenney, Michael Ignatieff, Canadians of German descent, Stephen Harper
Afghan torture emails reached MacKay's office
Kabul :: Afghanistan | 10 days ago
Credibility Afghan detainees were sent to Peter MacKay's office in 2006 when he was foreign affairs minister, the Star has learned. The messages were sent a year before the government redrafted its prisoner transfer agreement to seek better protections. MacKay is...
Tags: Richard Colvin, Peter MacKay, canadians believed, Afghanistan, Kabul, Human rights abuses, Politics, War in Afghanistan, Stephen Harper, Canadian Afghan detainee abuse scandal, Human rights in Afghanistan, Stￃﾩphane Dion, Brian Mulroney, Michael Ignatieff, Canadians of German descent, Canadians of Scottish descent, Public inquiry, Premiership of Stephen Harper, Allan Gregg, Russian nobility, Walter Natynczyk, French Quebecers, Karlheinz Schreiber, Ignatieff, Jack Layton, 40th Canadian Parliament, Liberal Party of Canada, Colvin, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Public opinion in Canada on the war in Afghanistan, Military history of Canada
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