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The Shadow Cabinet's £7 million tax break
London :: United Kingdom | about 19 hours ago
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A Mirror investigation has found that 18 millionaire members of the shadow cabinet will save up to �520,000 each under the Conservatives' flagship policy. Among those benefiting from the controversial plans to raise the tax threshold to �2million are...
Tags: Shadow Cabinet, United Kingdom, London, Politics, Conservative Party, International Democrat Union, Tory, Michael Gove, National Government, George Osborne, Official Opposition Shadow Cabinet, Parliament of the United Kingdom, David Cameron, William Hague, United Kingdom Parliamentary expenses scandal, 39th Canadian Parliament, Inheritance Tax, Official Opposition, Stephen Harper
Tories say 'in and out' financing done by all parties
Ottawa :: Canada | about 21 hours ago
Credibility Opposition party candidates practised "in-and-out" transactions during the 2006 election campaign similar to those at the centre of a Conservative party legal action against Elections Canada, the Tories' lawyers argued in court Tuesday. Lawyers representing...
Tags: Federal Court of Canada, Canada, Ottawa, Politics, Marc Mayrand, International Democrat Union, Government of Canada, Business Finance, Bloc Quￃﾩbￃﾩcois, Conservative Party of Canada, Hormidas Mayrand, Chief Electoral Officer, Elections Canada, Chief Electoral Office, Stephen Harper
Prisoners? transfer halted ?more than one time?
Kabul :: Afghanistan | about 23 hours ago
Credibility Canadian officials have halted the transfer of prisoners to Afghanistan's intelligence service "more than one time," because of the possibility of torture, Canada's chief of defence staff said...Walter Natynczyk, speaking at the end of the three-day Halifax...
Tags: Richard Colvin, canadians believed, Afghanistan, Kabul, Human rights abuses, Politics, War in Afghanistan, Peter MacKay, Stephen Harper, Canadian Afghan detainee abuse scandal, Stￃﾩphane Dion, Brian Mulroney, Michael Ignatieff, Canadians of German descent, Canadians of Scottish descent, Human rights in Afghanistan, 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
Whistleblower wrong, PM says
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility The fate of detainees turned over by Canadian troops to Afghan authorities, such as this man suspected of insurgency July 2, 2009, is being examined by a parliamentary committee. A senior diplomat who alleged a Canadian cover-up of torture in Afghan jails...
Tags: Amnesty International Canada, Stephen Harper, Amnesty Canada, Richard Colvin, Canadian Press Harris-Decima, public inquiry, minister stephen, prime minister, canadians soldiers, Canadian Forces, Canada, Ottawa, Human rights abuses, Politics, War in Afghanistan, Canadian Afghan detainee abuse scandal, Torture, Human rights in Afghanistan, Amnesty International, Violence, Morality, Peter MacKay, Afghanistan, War Conflict, Colvin, Crimes against humanity, Westminster system, Criminal law, Philosophy of law, Bob Rae, Brian Mulroney
Tory critics link abortion and jobless comments, call government out of touch
Halifax :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Opposition critics are taking aim at what they say are out-of-touch, ideologically driven Conservative MPs, citing recent comments on the unemployed and abortion emerging from government ranks. Tory MP Gerald Keddy's crack about the jobless on Halifax...
Tags: Halifax Chronicle-Herald, mp gerald, Gerald Keddy, tory mp, Tory, conservative mp, Nova Scotia, Canada, Halifax, Politics, Social Issues, Stephen Harper, Liberal Party of Canada, Rabinovitch, Maurice Vellacott, Stￃﾩphane Dion, Tom Flanagan, Conservative Party of Canada, David Matas, Peter Stoffer, Labor, Liberal Party, Anita Neville, Darrell Dexter, Michael Ignatieff, Scott Brison, Canadians of German descent, Religion Belief
Tory apologizes for erroneous flyers but no move to ban them
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility The flyer asserted that Stoffer had "worked to support the registry" when in fact he has opposed it since its inception 12 years ago. Vellacott appeared to suggest that the flyer was produced by the Tory party and not by him or his staff, even though...
Tags: Canada, Ottawa, Michael Ignatieff, Maurice Vellacott, Liberal Party of Canada, 39th Canadian Parliament, Philadelphia Flyers, Canadians of Scottish descent, Stephen Harper, Peter Stoffer, Politics
Canadian legislation to enshrine airline passenger rights hits a wall
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Proponents of airline passenger rights suffered a major setback Monday when the Conservatives and Bloc Quebecois joined forces to pass a motion that essentially tells Parliament to kill a proposed bill that would have penalized airlines for leaving travellers...
Tags: Jim Maloway, passenger rights, Parliament, airline passenger, Canada, Ottawa, 39th Canadian Parliament, Stephen Harper, Airline, Politics
Parkinson announces new round of budget cuts
Lawrence :: KS :: USA | 1 day ago
Credibility Almost every state agency is affected under Governor Mark Parkinson’s newest round of budget cuts announced in a news conference Monday, including everyone from students to road construction workers to bioscience researchers. Citing declining tax revenues,...
Tags: budget cut, Lawrence, Kansas state budget, Kansas, Furlough, Bureaucracy, Politics, Business Finance, Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities, Stephen Harper, Mark Parkinson, Governor of Kansas, Public finance, Education
Linking climate plans difficult, committee hears
Calgary :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility Environmental experts in the U.S. say Canadian and United States climate change legislation should be linked to be most effective, but cautioned that developing laws concurrently would be difficult. Federal environment minister Jim Prentice said last...
Tags: climate change, Edmonton, Canada, Calgary, Environment, Emissions trading, Carbon finance, Kyoto Protocol, Politics, No. 408 Squadron RCAF, Jim Prentice, Carbon credit, War Conflict, Air pollution, Global warming, Alberta Climate Change and Emissions Management Amendment Act, Stephen Harper, John Gerretsen, Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme, Dalton McGuinty, Action on climate change
Canadian lacrosse team presents sweater to Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Ottawa :: Canada | 1 day ago
Credibility The Canadian men's field lacrosse team has added Prime Minister Stephen Harper to its roster of supporters. The Prime Minister met in his office with Dean French, the team's executive director, on Monday afternoon and was presented with a national team...
Tags: Stephen Harper, Canada, prime minister, canadian lacrosse, Brodie Merrill, minister stephen, Geoff Snider, lacrosse team, Ottawa, National Lacrosse League, Box lacrosse, David Huntley, Lacrosse, Field lacrosse, allnews
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