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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stephen Harper is poised to trigger an election call for Oct. 14, senior officials in the Prime Minister's Office said Friday.
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | yesterday
So the game and speculation continues. Harper meets with Gilles Duceppe to basically say nothing. His game? Present the facade that he's making an effort to work with the opposition leaders. He's not though, or not at least according to Duceppe.Tomorrow, he'll play the same game with Layton and he won't even bother to meet with Dion.Here's the thing though. If you're going to have your officials go...
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CityNews: Top Stories (Free subscription) | yesterday
The date appears to be right after Thanksgiving, infringing on the long weekend.
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | yesterday
Hereâs a video from CanuckPolitics of the back and forth between Harper and Dion over whether there will be an election and whoâs going to wear the blame for it. Or something. Sheesh! What a pair these two make. Itâs a moot point now anyway it seems, if Gilles Duceppe is to be believed. After [...]
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Conservative Party of Canada (Free subscription) | yesterday
Today Conservative MP Jason Kenney made the following statement in response to media reports about Liberal MPs calling for changes in Stephane Dion's carbon tax:
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | yesterday
But you would be wrong! The Privy Council Office, dedicated public servants that they are, have their eyes trained on Errol Mendes today. No doubt due to his op-ed in yesterday's Ottawa Citizen tearing Harpie a new one for his imminent law breaking election call. Looks like they're gearing up to diminish Professor Mendes' views by linking him to the Liberal party. Because critical thinkers opposed...
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DND/CF (Free subscription) | yesterday
BANFF, ALBERTA – The Honourable Peter Gordon MacKay, Minister of National Defence and Minister of the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, will be hosting the Conference of Defence Ministers of the Americas (CDMA) September 2-6, 2008. Ministers of Defence or equivalents from all democratic countries of the hemisphere have been invited to attend.
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CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe says the Conservative prime minister has made up his mind to hold a fall election.
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Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
THETFORD MINES, QUEBEC (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Christian Paradis, Minister of Public Works and Government Services, Secretary of State (Agriculture) and MP for Megantic-L'Erable, today announced that the Government of Canada is contributing $3 million in funding to the Industrial Oil Seed Network (IOSN) under the Agricultural Bioproducts Innovation Program (ABIP).
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Seeking Alpha (Free subscription) | yesterday
Guy Bennett submits: CIBC says this run is not over…not by a long shot. Buried deep in a recently released 70-page report , analysts at CIBC, Canada ’s 4th largest bank, states: Complete Story »
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Buckdog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Stephen Harper is not just a 'free market radical ', he is, in reality, a 'free market lunatic' ! Harper comes from a school of thought that originated with Preston Manning and the old Reform Party. It is an ideology which religiously believes that the unfettered free capitalist market holds the solution to all of mankind's problems. This same economic ideology is bolstered by its ties to fundamentalist...
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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Mounties are investigating a controversial real-estate deal that the Harper government cancelled yesterday, and on which Julie Couillard allegedly lobbied two senior Conservative officials while she was dating them.