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An Ipsos poll for Canada shows that if Canada held a Parliamentary election today, voters would support parties in these proportions: Conservative 40%, Liberal 25%, New Democratic 13%, Green 11%, Bloc Quebecois 10%. See the story here.
The Gazetteer (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
SellingCanadiansDownTheirOwnPrivate CrazyRiverVille From the Big Willbowski: The story starts in 2008. Liberal MP Gerry Byrne prepared a motion calling on the government to introduce an airline passenger’s bill of rights. Travellers would be guaranteed remedies for lost bags, unreasonable delays or overbooked flights. The model was similar to protection in Europe... {snippety-doo-dah} ...MPs...
ThePolitic.com (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
The Bloc Quebecois, the NDP and the Liberal Party are demanding that Canadians adopt absurd energy restrictions.
Full Comment (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Stephen Harper has now served longer as a minority prime minister than any of his predecessors except Lester B. Pearson, a PM who was only three or four seats short of a majority. Pearson left office in 1968. And times have changed since then. While Harper is dealing with the venomous hedgehog of the separatist Bloc Québécois, Pearson had to contend with the bizarre, but crypto-federalist,...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Don Newman posits his theory as to where everything went sideways. The fraying was not — it might surprise some I’m sure — the fault of the Bloc Québécois who, while preaching their own view of both history and the future, always treated Parliament with respect. Rather it came from the Reform party led by Preston Manning. Reformers [...]
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Overall polling data suggest the Conservatives and New Democrats have done well this fall, but nobody is running away with the show
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Canadians have mixed views on what to do about the long-gun registry, with slightly more preferring to abolish the program than keep it, but nearly a third having no opinion on the subject, a new EKOS poll suggests.
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Liberals are demanding an apology from the Conservative government for distributing taxpayer-funded pamphlets that suggest the Grits are anti-Semitic.
BIG BLUE WAVE (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
- Story from Dawn.com via Answering Muslims. Excerpt: Pervez Masih, a 40-year-old Christian worker, saved scores of lives at the double-storey cafeteria, whe... 1 hour ago - The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that just 26% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Oba... 1 hour ago - Speaking of the hateful, intolerant left hating Sarah Palin…...
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Stephen Harper wrapped up a busy three days of meetings in India on Wednesday with a visit to the Sikh Golden Temple in Amritsar.
atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Governor General Michaelle Jean declared it to be "absolutely delicious."
The Shotgun (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
They may not love Canada, but they love Canadian money: In the former sovereignist stronghold of Montmagny-L'Islet-Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup, fatigue with opposition politics decisively trumped the Bloc Québécois's anti-Conservative message. The lure of millions of stimulus dollars and the sight of Quebec's...
Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
The latest polling data puts the Prime Minister on top, Jane Taber finds, and the Liberals gear up to blast the Health Minister again
Randy McDonald's Livejournal (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Any number of observers of the Canadian political scene --opponents of the Conservative minority government, true--have accused said government of being addicted to secrecy. I'll quote at length from BCer in Toronto . Links are at the original page. Gov't program wants job applicants' views on Tory budget : An elite federal program to recruit the cream of new graduates suddenly wants to know the applicants'...
Toronto Sun - News (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Canada’s charter right to freedom of religion doesn’t extend to “barbaric” practices such as forced marriage or spousal abuse, says Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney.
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