Buckdog (Free subscription) | yesterday
"There are four byelections coming up on Monday — two in Quebec, one in Nova Scotia and another in British Columbia — and the Liberals could come in third in all four of them. In both languages and on both coasts." -High-stakes Byelections -Tory candidate invisible in New Westminster-Coquitlam byelection (Click on graphic above for profile) (Click on graphic above for profile)...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
MERIDA, MEXICO -- 11/07/09 -- The Honourable Jim Prentice, Canada's Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, today announced an unprecedented memorandum of understanding with the U.S. and Mexico to cooperate on wilderness con..
Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
MERIDA, MEXICO (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Jim Prentice, Canada's Environment Minister and Minister responsible for Parks Canada, today announced an unprecedented memorandum of understanding with the U.S. and Mexico to cooperate on wilderness conservation across North America. The announcement was made at the 9th World Wilderness Congress (Wild 9) in Mexico, where the Minister delivered a keynote...
The Torch (Free subscription) | yesterday
The official site at Veterans Affairs Canada. A listing of events across the country here , and a map .
The Shotgun (Free subscription) | yesterday
A couple weeks ago the ADQ membership elected a leader, Gilles Taillon , who is dedicated to moving the party more to the centre. The lesson of the turbulent rise and falls of the ADQ demonstrate one thing: the party...
Fitness Watch (Free subscription) | yesterday
Nutritional child abuse - Canadian style. "A seven-year ongoing study examining over 20,000 Canadian grade 9 students shows most already have at least one major risk factor for heart disease and stroke, Dr. Brian McCrindle told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2009, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society. 'This study is further evidence of an accelerating...
People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Canada will host the foreign ministers meeting of the G8 countries in March 2010 to prepare for a G8 summit later that year, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon announced Friday. The meeting will be held on March 29-30 in the city of Gatineau, which is located on the opposite side of the Ottawa River overlooking capital Ottawa and belongs to Quebec province, Cannon announced at a press conference in Gatineau....
Bigthink - Site Features Feed (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bisphenol A—generally known as BPA—is an organic compound used in the manufacture of plastics. It's also what's known as an endocrine disruptor. Because it's chemically similar to our own hormones, it can interfere with our bodies' development and metabolism, potentially with serious consequences. In particular, BPA appears to function as a xenoestrogen—that is, it acts like estrogen...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
Advisers Mark Sakamoto and Alexis Levine - part of the 'Toronto gang' - are leaving Michael Ignatieff's office
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
The rebirth of the harmonized sales tax as a jobs issue puts Ontario PC Leader Tim Hudak in a box
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
It's official – global warmingism has court-warranted standing as a religion
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
No marriage could have been more unequal than that of Pierre Trudeau to a ‘dizzy, distracted girl' named Margaret
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
Appearing on a streetcar near you, Adam Giambrone will host his own TV show on CP24. Mark Schatzker imagines the results
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | yesterday
Dr. John O'Connor has been cleared of the last of four complaints laid by Health Canada during his tenure as a fly-in doctor in Fort Chipewyan, Alta.
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
A pair of young journalists led Jack Layton’s scrum yesterday with questions about heckling in the House. They would seem to have followed up with a couple other MPs, similar exchanges showing up in the scrum transcripts. The last question posed to Jim Flaherty surely demonstrates a degree of chutzpah that bodes well for the [...]
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