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Afghans brave violence to vote in national election
At least 11 civilians and four security force personnel were killed Saturday as Afghan voters took part in the first nationwide election since the fraud-plagued presidential poll last year.
Political | 206661 hits | 4:49 PM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
At least 11 civilians and four security force personnel were killed Saturday as Afghan voters took part in the first nationwide election since the fraud-plagued presidential poll last year.
PMO defends Habs in language spat
The dispute is quintessentially Canadian. First there was debate about language, hockey was involved, provincial politicians piled in, a federalist-separatist tussle broke out, and now the Prime Minister's Office has waded into this made-in-Canada melee. Clifford Olson takes aim at HarperPolitical | 206955 hits | 7:14 PM on Wednesday | posted by wildrosegirl
Here we go again, folks!
Remember the outrage in Parliament when it was revealed that serial killer Clifford Olson, at age 70, was getting old age and security pension of close to $1,200 month? Habs a tool for Canadian federalism: PQ
The leader of the Parti Quebecois believes the Montreal Canadiens hockey team has become a promotional tool for Canadian federalism. Former Tory spokesman quits Sun TVPolitical | 206704 hits | 6:29 PM on Wednesday | posted by wildrosegirl
A proposed right-wing, all-news TV network says it's "full steam ahead" despite the sudden resignation of its high-profile and politically connected frontman. Tories defend $9B jet purchase
Conservative ministers launched a defence of plans to spend upwards of $9 billion on stealth fighter jets, arguing that the purchase will bring Canada security and jobs.Christine O'Donnell Wins: Tea Party Revolt Topples The Delaware GOP‎
Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell, a perennial candidate with no government experience, soundly defeated veteran politician Mike Castle for the Republican Senate nomination in Delaware Tuesday -- posing a major upset to the political establishment on
Tea Party favorite Christine O'Donnell, a perennial candidate with no government experience, soundly defeated veteran politician Mike Castle for the Republican Senate nomination in Delaware Tuesday -- posing a major upset to the political establishment on Jack Layton wins over enough New Democrats to save gun registryPolitical | 206865 hits | 1:07 PM on Tuesday | posted by hurley_108
NDP Leader Jack Layton says he has persuaded “an overwhelming majority” of his rural caucus to vote next week to defeat a Conservative private member’s bill on the gun registry. NRA involved in gun registry debatePolitical | 206918 hits | 7:53 AM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl
The National Rifle Association, a powerful lobbying group in the United States that advocates fewer gun controls, has been actively involved in trying to abolish Canada's long-gun registry for more than a decade, CBC News has learned.Mideast leaders meet, Clinton says 'time is ripe'
The U.S. is putting pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as a new round of talks begin in Egypt.
Political | 206608 hits | 7:23 AM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl
The U.S. is putting pressure on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas as a new round of talks begin in Egypt. Canadian government warned of Tamil refugee wavePolitical | 206687 hits | 6:54 AM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said the government was aware of an impending influx of Sri Lankan Tamil refugees well before a boatload of nearly 500 migrants arrived in British Columbia last month.Iran releases detained American woman
Iran's state news agency says an American woman freed from prison in Tehran will travel to Oman where her mother is already waiting for her.
Political | 206601 hits | 6:53 AM on Tuesday | posted by wildrosegirl
Iran's state news agency says an American woman freed from prison in Tehran will travel to Oman where her mother is already waiting for her. Atwood's free-speech flop
Canadian author Margaret Atwood is a free-speech activist. She is the vice-president of International PEN, the advocacy group for imprisoned writers. CSIS would use torture-tainted info: internal notes revealPolitical | 206731 hits | 3:59 PM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl
Canada's spy agency says it would use information obtained through torture to derail a possible terrorist plot - a position critics argue will only encourage abusive interrogations.Israel to end settlement moratorium
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has said the current restrictions on the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank will not remain in place, though there will be some limits on future construction.
Binyamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, has said the current restrictions on the construction of Israeli settlements in the West Bank will not remain in place, though there will be some limits on future construction. Layton defends allowing free vote on gun registryPolitical | 206648 hits | 10:31 AM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl
NDP Leader Jack Layton says that allowing his party's MPs to vote freely on a bill to scrap the long-gun registry does not contradict his own stance: that the registry must be saved. Tories bristle at Harper pledge to fund arenas
Conservatives, particularly in Western Canada, are reportedly angry at Prime Minister Stephen Harper's willingness to use federal dollars to fund sports arenas and stadiums across the country. Tory demands apology for B.C. Liberal's 'Nazi' comment
A Conservative MP is demanding an apology from a B.C. Liberal riding association president who compared the government's plans for combating human smuggling to making a deal with the Nazis. Political | 207154 hits | 10:06 AM on Friday | posted by hurley_108
A third New Democrat MP says he's changed his mind and will vote against a bill to do away with the long-gun registry. Claude Gravelle, the member for Nickel Belt, says he wants the registry fixed, not killed.UN assembly passes Kosovo resolution after dispute
UNITED NATIONS — The UN General Assembly on Thursday passed a landmark resolution calling for dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo, but only after Serbia sparked a new diplomatic dispute over its breakaway neighbor.
UNITED NATIONS — The UN General Assembly on Thursday passed a landmark resolution calling for dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo, but only after Serbia sparked a new diplomatic dispute over its breakaway neighbor.Geithner Says China Needs to Let Market Drive Up Yuan
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said China must let the yuan rise more quickly to show trading partners that it’s following through on its promises.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said China must let the yuan rise more quickly to show trading partners that it’s following through on its promises. No cash, no signs: Tories made stimulus funds contingent on erecting billboardsPolitical | 206750 hits | 8:33 PM on Wednesday | posted by hurley_108
Millions of dollars in taxpayer stimulus cash doled out by the Harper government was conditional upon project managers putting up federal promotional signs, The Canadian Press has learned. Sun TV News gets attention of south of border
A proposed conservative television network that has touched off online protests and a war of words between Ottawa and a Canadian literary luminary is now starting to make a splash south of the border. Tories lose another NDP vote in bid to scrap gun registryPolitical | 207154 hits | 9:24 AM on Tuesday | posted by hurley_108
The federal Conservatives have lost another key NDP vote in their bid to scrap the long-gun registry. Sudbury MP Glenn Thibeault says he will no longer back the Tory private member's bill that has pitted urban voters and politicians against their rural co Tories demand bureaucrats produce weekly count on stimulus signagePolitical | 206787 hits | 9:03 PM on Monday | posted by hurley_108
Civil servants across Canada were ordered by the Harper government to document every single sign posted anywhere promoting the federal economic stimulus plan, The Canadian Press has learned.God and Politics, Together Again
IT took only a day for a massive exercise in unity to become the latest salvo in the culture wars.
Political | 206727 hits | 9:38 AM on Sunday | posted by CommanderSock
IT took only a day for a massive exercise in unity to become the latest salvo in the culture wars.Afghans pull savings from Kabul Bank
Nervous Afghans pulled more deposits out of the nation's largest bank on Saturday despite assurances from government leaders that their money was safe.
Political | 206727 hits | 8:38 AM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl
Nervous Afghans pulled more deposits out of the nation's largest bank on Saturday despite assurances from government leaders that their money was safe. PM's chief of staff Guy Giorno stepping down
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's chief of staff Guy Giorno is stepping down, according to a report, leaving a large void in the PMO. Tamils want Ottawa to stop making unproven accusationsPolitical | 206853 hits | 8:23 AM on Thursday | posted by Guy_Fawkes
Axing F-35 deal would cause economic damage: Tories
MIRABEL, Que. — The economic and diplomatic strings attached to Ottawa's multi-billion dollar deal to buy the F-35 stealth fighters would make it extremely painful -- if not impossible -- for a future government to unravel or cut, senior Conservatives ins 
OTTAWA – Crumbling infrastructure, cash-strapped communities and Third World living conditions across northern Canada are putting Ottawa’s ambitious Arctic agenda at risk, a new report warns. Liberals debate whether to force fall electionPolitical | 208123 hits | 2:37 PM on Sunday | posted by wildrosegirl
Michael Ignatieff has spent his summer "vacation" on a bus, travelling almost 40,000 kilometres to some 130 events in 10 provinces and two territories, pumping 11,000 hands and kissing countless babies.Abbas, Palestinians should die: Israeli rabbi .
An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their leader with a plague, calling for their death in a fiery sermon before Middle East peace talks set to begin next week.
An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their leader with a plague, calling for their death in a fiery sermon before Middle East peace talks set to begin next week. Harper ends northern tour
WHITEHORSE – Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrapped up his week-long annual Arctic tour today by handing out $22 million in federal funds to support affordable housing. Nation-building, not politics, behind week-long Arctic tour: Harper
WHITEHORSE - He stood astride an ice flow, F-18 jets roaring overhead for a perfect photograph, reannounced feel-good government initiatives and gave a rousing speech to party faithful warning of the evils of an opposition coalition. 'I make the rules,' PM declares as he takes ATV for Arctic joyride
The rogue PM eventually returned to the aircraft where he was surrounded by reporters and photographers, one of whom wondered whether he had a licence to operate the vehicle —especially on restricted space such as an air strip? “I think I make the rules,” B.C.'s HST anger understandable, says Ignatieff
Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says the B.C. government is paying a heavy political price for the HST partly because of the way it introduced the harmonized sales tax. Ignatieff promises North Van navy contracts
Canadian naval ships will be built on the North Shore for the first time in decades if the Liberals form the next federal government, according to party leader Michael Ignatieff. Liberals lash out at 'startling' Tory patronage
Liberal MPs are accusing the Harper government of handing out hundreds of patronage appointments over the past two years to people who have been contributors to the Conservative party. Macleans: Gun Registry Math
Gun registry math
by Aaron Wherry on Monday, August 23, 2010 12:32pm
When Bill c-391, an act to repeal the long-gun registry, came to a vote on second reading last November, it was passed by a count of 164-137. Those 164 votes in favour included 143 C Harper begins Arctic sovereignty tour
Prime Minister Stephen Harper embarked on a five-day tour of the Arctic region Monday, a trip that has become an annual event for the prime minister to demonstrate Canada's sovereignty there.Australian PM says elections too close to call
It could take more than a week to learn who will govern Australia after a cliffhanger election -- the closest in nearly 50 years -- and the winner may have to woo the support of a handful of independent lawmakers in order to assume power.
Political | 206703 hits | 6:13 PM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
It could take more than a week to learn who will govern Australia after a cliffhanger election -- the closest in nearly 50 years -- and the winner may have to woo the support of a handful of independent lawmakers in order to assume power.Australia votes on whether first woman PM survives
Australians chose between making a conservative male their fourth prime minister in three years or sticking with their first female leader in tight elections Saturday just two months after she took power.
Political | 206615 hits | 8:13 AM on Saturday | posted by wildrosegirl
Australians chose between making a conservative male their fourth prime minister in three years or sticking with their first female leader in tight elections Saturday just two months after she took power.Iran begins loading first nuclear reactor
Iran has begun loading fuel into its first nuclear power station in a ceremony attended by Iranian and Russian officials.
Iran has begun loading fuel into its first nuclear power station in a ceremony attended by Iranian and Russian officials.Back to Canada News
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