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New Democrat leader Jack Layton has given prime minister Stephen Harper's newly-unveiled platform an F for Fail - failing to protect the interests of Canadian families in tough economic times. He says in contrast to Harper's “do-nothing attitude,” the NDP's top (...)
As anyone who has been reading here for a few years knows, I have opposed Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan from the start. It’s not about Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda or the Taliban, it never hyas been. It’s always been about securing oil/gas pipelines routes for transporting hydrocarbons out of the “stans” and preventing China [...]
Oct. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made his ability to steer the country through troubled economic times the cornerstone of his re-election campaign. Suddenly, that strategy is coming back to bite him. Harper, who has dropped to a virtual dead heat with Liberal opposition leader Stephane Dion in some polls, yesterday pointed to the Bank of Canada's decision to cut interest...
First things first, who exactly is Stephen Harper ? That's what 99% of our American readers are now thinking. Well, Mr. Harper is our uptight, funless Prime Minister here in Canada (Prime Minister is like our psuedo-British President. Yeah, we like our governance on the pseudo-British tip friend, that is how we roll). Harper's job is up for grabs next week, as even though the rest of the world likely...
The Canadian economy created a record of 107,000 new jobs in September, helping keep the country's unemployment rate steady, national agency Statistics Canada reported Friday. Although 97,000 of the new jobs are part-time, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said the massive number is proof that his government's economic policies are sound and that the economy is on the right track. Previous objections were...
An expert opinion filed in court contradicts Stephen Harper's claim that an author altered a taped interview with the Conservative Leader to unfairly characterize a financial offer to dying MP Chuck Cadman, a lawyer for the Liberal Party of Canada says.
When Conservative Leader Stephen Harper visited the B.C. capital this week for a rally, he could have been standing in a hotel meeting room anywhere in Canada. The 150 party supporters in the cramped, windowless room provided a colourful backdrop for Mr. Harper as he delivered a message to Canadian voters on the national economy.
And what a week it was.... Wall Street had its worst tumble ever - barely a week after U.S. taxpayers poured a trillion dollars into propping it up. Stephen Harper's long-awaited dive in the polls materialized from thin air as Stephane Dion finally found his voice - and Canada began to listen. The McCain campaign came almost completely unravelled after another debate victory by Barack Obama and the...
Canadians just can’t buy a break from their southern neighbor. Even after all the health care tourists have crossed the border for cheap drugs, the global financial panic has now slithered into national politics. Canada’s conservative prime minister, Stephen Harper, is falling victim to opposition-stoked panic that Canada’s prudent financial sector might falter under the [...]
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Canada’s second-largest newspaper, the Globe and Mail, has, “unenthusiastically endorsed Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Canada’s Oct 14 general election”. The ‘editorial board, “began the endorsement with a list of what it says are Harper’s two most worrisome personality traits: that he is a right-wing ideologue and that [...]
Torontoist would like to apologize for the post we ran yesterday implying Stephen Harper's cuts to the arts were ill-advised or that the Department of Culture was right about anything at all. We've seen the error of our ways and, thanks to our new favourite band Hooded Fang , have grown to understand that arts funding is for rich and beautiful people to buy the shoes to wear to and the drugs to take...
In the interests of Anglosphere outreach (with apologies to our friends in Quebec), here is a thread for discussion of Tuesday’s Canadian election. Conservative leader Stephen Harper has headed a minority government in Canada since the defeat of Paul Martin’s Liberal government at the January 2006 election, and has called an early election in the [...]
p2pnet news view | P2P | Politics:- Given that Canada’s Afghan mission has more than doubled from first forecasts, Stephen Harper needs to explain how the Conservatives would pay for it. So says the NDP’s Paul Dewar, Ottawa-Centre. Today the Parliamentary Budget Office revealed the cost of the mission in Afghanistan has rocketed from initial estimates of [...]
The World Economic Forum has today released a report one the state of banking systems around the world, and Canada's is ranked #1, with a near perfect score of 6.8/7. ( CBC ) So, what have all the parties had to say about Canada's banking system over the last few days? Conservative: Stephen Harper said "This prime minister isn't going to panic and he isn't going to be pressured into doing something...
