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Promised tax cut up in the air
Saskatoon :: Canada | about 5 hours ago
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Further education property tax cuts promised by the Saskatchewan Party under a new funding system for school divisions may not happen in 2010, a casualty of the government's financial woes, Education Minister Ken Krawetz said Wednesday. In this year's...
Tags: school boards, education property, Ken Krawetz, tax cut, school divisions, property tax, Greater Saskatoon Catholic, Canada, Saskatoon, Education, Politics, Business Finance, Stephen Harper, Canadians of Irish descent
Stabbing Canada in the back
Copenhagen :: Denmark | about 10 hours ago
Credibility Y esterday, the United States unveiled its carbon reduction target, which turned out to be “ almost identical ” to Canada’s...Also yesterday, according to a report in La Presse, Bloc Québécois environment critic Bernard Bigras wrote to the Executive Secretary...
Tags: Denmark, Copenhagen, Politics, Environment, Barack Obama, Carbon finance, Climate change, Bloc Quￃﾩbￃﾩcois, Diplomatic conferences, French Quebecers, Environmental policy of the Harper government, Culture of Quebec, Global warming, Quￃﾩbￃﾩcois, Carbon dioxide, Stephen Harper, Bernard Bigras
Govt may impose GST at 4%, says Husni
Kuala Lumpur :: Malaysia | about 13 hours ago
Credibility The government plans to impose goods and services tax (GST) at 4%, said Second Finance Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah. �We are replacing the current sales and services tax, which is currently at 5% to 10%,� he told reporters at the Culture,...
Tags: GST, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Politics, Taxation in Singapore, Taxation in Canada, Business Finance, Goods and Services Tax, Kajang, Taxation in Australia, Stephen Harper, 39th Canadian Parliament
Report: Canadian north not ready for melt
Ottawa :: Canada | about 15 hours ago
Credibility People living in Canada's far north aren't prepared for what global warming will do to their homes and infrastructure, a federal agency warned the government. The independent National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy report to Parliament...
Tags: climate change, Northwest Territories, Canadian North, National Round Table, Canada, global warming, Ottawa, Environment, Permafrost, Disaster Accident, Physical geography, Geomorphology, Arctic, Pedology, Influenza, Nunavut, Iqaluit, Influenza A virus subtype H1N1, Stephen Harper, Action on climate change, Weather, Adaptation to global warming in Australia, Carbon finance, Snow, Yellowknife, Climate, Adaptation to global warming, Nunavut Court of Justice, Scientific opinion on climate change, Inuit, Dennis Fentie
Beijing has seen the future and knows it must be green | Isabel Hilton
Beijing :: China | about 18 hours ago
Credibility Beijing has seen the future and knows it must be green While China aims to hold the patents on tomorrow's clean technologies, the US remains in the climate change dark ages China has finally put some numbers to its climate plans, a significant move in...
Tags: China, Copenhagen, Beijing, copenhagen climate, climate summit, Stephen Harper, prime minister, U.S, gas emissions, Canada, Environment, Carbon finance, Climate change, Kyoto Protocol, Action on climate change, Diplomatic conferences, Global warming, Carbon dioxide, Low-carbon economy, Carbon intensity, Environmental economics, Debate over China's economic responsibilities for climate change mitigation, Emissions trading, Business Finance, Zero-carbon economy, Wen Jiabao, Energy economics, Energy security of China, Asia-Pacific Emissions Trading Forum, Premiership of Stephen Harper, Science and technology in Canada
Harper government moves to make it harder for prisoners jailed abroad to return to Canada
Ottawa :: Canada | about 19 hours ago
Credibility The Harper government introduced legislation today to make it tougher for Canadians imprisoned abroad to serve out their sentences in Canada. The bill would expand the conditions prisoners must meet before being allowed to obtain transfers to Canadian...
Tags: Canada, Ottawa, Politics, Social Issues, Prison, Penology, Incarceration in the United States, Stephen Harper, Pierre Trudeau
Thirsty camels terrorise town
Ottawa :: Canada | about 23 hours ago
Credibility Australian camel cull plan angers animal welfare groups Campaigners urge 'trigger-happy' Australian government not to shoot 6,000 camels causing chaos in Docker River In pictures: feral camels facing mass cull Feral camels converge on a water hole in...
Tags: Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff, Supreme Court of Canada, U.S, afghans detainees, Liberal Party, Harper PMO, Canada, Ottawa, Environment, Politics, Liberal Party of Canada, Michael Ignatieff, Russian nobility, Green Party of Canada, Stephen Harper, Emissions trading, Ignatieff, Carbon finance, Wolesi Jirga, Government of Canada, Stￃﾩphane Dion, Ontario New Democratic Party, Malalai Joya, Kyoto Protocol, Polling, Canadians of German descent, Sustainable energy, Camelids, Afghan, Canadians of Scottish descent, Universitￃﾩ Laval alumni
Stephen Harper shills for Harry Rosen
Toronto :: Canada | about 24 hours ago
Credibility I f singing at the National Arts Centre wasn’t a shocker now the Prime Minister is singing for Harry. In mailboxes across the country, the preferred customers of high-end clothier Harry Rosen are receiving a card featuring Stephen Harper at a piano promoting...
Tags: Harry Rosen, PMO, Mr. Rosen, private sale, Mr. Harper, prime minister, Canada, Toronto, Government of Canada, Jim Flaherty, Office of the Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, Prime Minister of Canada
Feds bar whistleblower diplomat from handing over torture documents to MPs
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility The federal government is blocking whistleblowing diplomat Richard Colvin from giving documents to a special House of Commons committee investigating Afghan torture...Given "the potentially grave repercussions to Mr. Colvin for violating provisions of...
Tags: Mr. Colvin, Richard Colvin, whistleblower diplomat, Parliament, canada evidence, evidence act, Canada, Ottawa, Colvin, Politics, Stephen Harper, Law Crime
Harper to attend climate conference
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Prime Minister Stephen Harper will be attending the climate change conference in Copenhagen next month. "The prime minister has made a decision," his spokesman Dimitri Soudas told reporters on the plane in Ottawa shortly before taking off to Port of Spain....
Tags: Stephen Harper, Royal Commonwealth Society, Commonwealth Heads, prime minister, Trinidad and Tobago, minister stephen, Ugandan, Canada, Ottawa, Politics, Environment, Yoweri Museveni, Social Issues, Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Presidents of Uganda, Commonwealth Heads of Government, Dhananjayan Sriskandarajah, Politics of Uganda, Carbon finance, 36th G8 summit, Climate change, 19th century, Patrick Manning, Uganda, Commonwealth of Nations, 21st century, Homosexuality, Copenhagen Climate Council, Port of Spain, Global warming
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