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Harper Valley (Free subscription) | yesterday
Canada made an amazing leap in the Gold Medal competition when Stephen Harper’s head , aboard ‘Draft Plan’ soared over the hurdles to capture first place. Biting on the gold leafed lead medallion, Harper’s head said, “Yay. I won”. He referred the media to his trainer, Don Cherry, to answer further questions. This moves Canada up [...]
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International News (I.N. Daily) (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Aug 20, 2008 ACT NOW! - Tell Stephen Harper: Don’t Deport Hinzman Family! U.S. Iraq War resister Jeremy Hinzman and his wife and two children have been ordered to leave Canada by September 23rd. In spite of Hinzman’s four and a half years living, working and raising a family in Canada, the Harper government plans to [...]
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Cherniak on Politics (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Just picture it. Conservative bloggers call into a conference call line, paid for by the Conservative Party of Canada. On the other end of the phone is Stephen Harper. He speaks for a minute or two, but spends the rest of his 45 minutes answering questions from bloggers. Some of the questions are even critical of his current strategy. Then you wake up. In contrast, that is exactly what Stéphane Dion...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
Canada's former prime minister said on Monday that the country's current leader was wrong not to attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics and predicted Canada could pay a heavy price for his absence. Jean Chretien said Prime Minister Stephen Harper should have been at the celebration given China's economic and demographic clout and the traditionally good relationship between the two countries....
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Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
The odds of an autumn election in Canada narrowed this week after Stephen Harper, the prime minister, expressed frustration with the workings of the current...
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Democrats & Liberals: (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
Anyone one? Mr. Harper is the 49 year old Prime Minister of Canada. Canada is the 2nd largest country in the world in terms of landmass. Canada is the largest trading partner of the United States. Susan Ward wrote a piece in About.com concerning doing business in Canada: "Why do business in Canada? Why not? Operating a business in Canada is better for your bottom line than operating your business...
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Alertnet (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Source: Reuters (Updates with comment from opposition leader Dion) By Randall Palmer OTTAWA, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper said on Tuesday he would decide in coming weeks whether an ...
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Take him on, confidently and clearly, as Mr. Chretien did yesterday. Then watch him unpleasantly bristle at the audacity of any criticism: It's "a bit hypocritical" of Jean Chretien, who attended only one Olympics during his tenure at Canada's helm, to attack Stephen Harper's decision to skip the Summer Games in Beijing, the Conservative prime minister said Tuesday.Harper briskly fired back at the...
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Daimnation! (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
The Liberals are firm about not sucking up to the Americans. But sucking up to the Chinese, now, that's another story: Jean Chrétien says Prime Minister Stephen Harper was wrong not to attend the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics....
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NB TORY LADY (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
quoted in it's entirety Forget George Bush, “Yasuo Fukuda clone” is the new stereotype The Liberal press loves to link Stephen Harper to US president George Bush because he has become the whipping boy for America’s stumbling economy and the unpopular war in Iraq. Leaving aside whether this criticism is justified, this is an age-old political trick of trying to saddle a political opponent with the stigma...
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IOL (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper is calling a special election.
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Stéphane Dion hoped to sideline Afghanistan as a hot election issue when they struck a deal last March on Canada's military mission in Kandahar province. Parliament approved a motion to keep our 2,500 troops there until 2011, intending to shift their role from chasing down the Taliban to training the Afghan army. That was the idea, at any rate.
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Conservative Party of Canada (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued the following statement today:
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Progressive Bloggers (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing, there will be no result.Mohandas Karamchand GandhiNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.Margaret Mead
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Leftnews.org (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
–U.S. Iraq war resister Jeremy Hinzman’s appeal to Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper Jeremy Hinzman and his entire family face deportation by the Harper government in Canada. If returned to the U.S., Jeremy faces incarceration, a court martial, up to 5 years in a military prison, and a felony conviction that is a criminal record. Harper’s government [...]
