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Just A Poll You Might Have Missed
BigCityLib Strikes Back (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
The poll found support for the Tories at 36 per cent, down 1.7 points from where they were on election day last October. The Liberals were at 27 per cent, the NDP at 15 and the Greens at 11. In Quebec, the Bloc Quebecois held a 17-point lead in the poll at 39 per cent, with the Liberals at 22, the Tories at 18 and the Greens and NDP tied at 10 per cent. FYI. That is all.
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PM Rejects Bloc Support.
They Call Me "Mr. Sinister" (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Prime Minister Harper told a gathering reporters that, "On this anniversary of the attempted coup, by the Liberals, the socialists, and separatist Bloc Quebecois, I reject the support of the Bloc on the HST motion , to be introduced next week. It is offensive to the principle of democracy that my government should be forced to accept their votes of support. I demand that Mr. Ignatieff immediately...
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Flashback: How to derail a committee
liberal catnip (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Frustrated about how things are going in the Special Committee on the Canadian Mission in Afghanistan? Let's take a trip down dirty tricks lane : Opposition demands release of alleged Tory 'dirty tricks' manual Last Updated: Friday, May 18, 2007 | 2:28 PM ET CBC News Opposition parties on Friday demanded the Conservative government make public a reported 200-page guidebook on how to create chaos in...
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Tories will challenge Ignatieff with HST ultimatum
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
'Final' legislation forces Liberals to choose: support a harmonized tax and risk voters' wrath; defeat it and lose traction in Ontario and B.C.
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Conservatives hold steady lead over Liberals: poll
Morton's Musings (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/11/25/ekos-poll025.html The federal Conservatives continue to hold a 10-point lead — stable for nearly one month — over the Liberals, a new EKOS poll suggests. The poll, commissioned by the CBC and released Thursday, suggests the Conservatives would have the support of 36.9 per cent of eligible voters and the Liberals 27.1 per cent. The NDP would follow...
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Joseph Pierre Adélard Lambert 1939-2009
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
A lifelong Liberal, he only faced two opponents during more than 20 years as a popular town councillor
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Mitchel Raphael on who’s new at 24 sussex and why MP hall parties have been banned
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
This weeks gossip from capital hill
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One Year Ago
CalgaryGrit (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
Flaherty to axe subsidies to political parties in fiscal update: sources The Conservatives are poised to eliminate the public subsidies that Canada's five major political parties receive, a move that would save $30 million a year but could cripple the opposition. Sources told CBC News and other media outlets Wednesday that the subsidy cut is one of the key elements of the fiscal update that Finance...
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Stabbing Canada in the back
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
A climate-change letter to the United Nations makes clear why federalist parties should steer clear of the Bloc Québécois
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Scots dont want independence
Morgan Hen (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Interesting poll in the "Scotsman" it seems that the Scots are not keen on independence . As much as I would like to see a independent Wales to raise our profile in the World, its a fantasy that will never happen. The next best thing is a Welsh nation in a confederate Britain . That can happen. One can look at Quebec as strong as the Bloc Quebecois has been they have never achieved their...
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Timing key in hearings
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Canada's former top soldier will be in the hot seat today as a parliamentary committee tries to get to the bottom of allegations Canada was complicit in the rape and torture of Afghan detainees.
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Hillier to testify in Afghan torture case
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
Canada’s former top soldier will be in the hot seat Wednesday as a parliamentary committee tries to get to the bottom of allegations Canada was complicit in the rape and torture of Afghan detainees.
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From the Republic of Gall, apparently
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
The first Bloc Quebecois student club outside Quebec has been formed at the University of Ottawa: Les Bloquistes de l’Universite d’Ottawa, recently approved by the university’s student federation, is now eligible for a variety of services, such as use of rooms at the university, and up to $1,000 a year in funding from the student federation [...]
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Paying attention: The sad story of the passengers’ bill of rights
Rob Cottingham (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
MPs from all parties professed to support the idea, including then transport minister Lawrence Cannon.But behind the scenes, his office was pleading with the airlines to launch a lobby campaign to defeat the motion, according to documents obtained by Canwest News Service.While Cannon was promising to bring in a travellers’ bill of rights, a key [...]