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CPP increases necessary: Flaherty
Speaking in advance of formal meetings Monday with his provincial counterparts in Charlottetown, Flaherty said that under the current system, too many Canadians could end up with small pensions.
Gates Criticizes Turkey Vote Against Sanctions
BRUSSELS � Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates expressed frustration with Turkey on Friday over its refusal to support a new round of United Nations sanctions against Iran, but he suggested that the alliance between Washington and Ankara remained robust.
Liberal, NDP insiders talk merger
Senior insiders with the federal Liberals and New Democrats have been holding secret talks about the possibility of merging their parties to form a new entity to take on the Harper Conservatives, CBC News has learned.
Harper says artificial lake cost $57,000, not $2M
It's not a "fake lake" that cost $2 million, it's a "fake lake" that's part of a $2-million "marketing pavilion" partially aimed at foreign journalists, Prime Minister Stephen Harper clarified Tuesday.
Likud survives no-confidence voteThe Likud and Kadima blasted each other throughout the day on Monday, leading up to the latter’s no-confidence motion in the Knesset plenum, which was resoundingly defeated by a vote of 59-25.
Tories drowned by calls attacking $2-million fake lakeOpposition MPs hooted and hollered at the Conservative government in the House of Commons Monday for a decision to spend about $2 million to build an indoor fake lake in downtown Toronto to impress international journalists attending the G20 summit there
Parliament could shut down early, fall election likely
Government and opposition MPs are targeting an early adjournment for Parliament's summer recess, with a leading pollster and one of the most politically savvy NDP MPs saying a fall election call is likely, possibly before the scheduled return in September
Pass the refugee reform bill
The Liberals should support new legislation that will reform Canada's beleaguered refugee determination system, introduce a new appeal process and hasten the removal of rejected claimants
Ministers' appearance sparks committee chaos
A parliamentary committee looking into the Rahim Jaffer affair descended into a shouting match during an unprecedented — and uninvited — appearance Wednesday by a trio of Conservative cabinet members led by Transport Minister John Baird.
Israel says no to conference on nuclear-free Mideast
Israel, thought to be the Middle East's only nuclear power, has rejected a new UN call to come clean about its secretive nuclear program, calling it a "deeply flawed and hypocritical" act that ignores the threat posed by its sworn enemy Iran.
Visa requirement costing Canada: Mexican president
Canada is losing hundreds of thousands of visitors from Mexico because of visa requirements imposed by the Harper government to curb refugee claims, Mexican President Felipe Calderon told the House of Commons on Thursday.
Harper told that Jaffer misused special passportWarnings that Rahim Jaffer was abusing a special passport issued to Canadians travelling on government business fuelled Stephen Harper’s doubts about the former Conservative caucus chair and his wife
Summit security costs defended by Toews
Public Safety Minister Vic Toews is defending the estimated $930 million cost for security for next month's G8 and G20 meetings as the "most efficient and effective" use of public money for Canada's "unprecedented" hosting of back-to-back international su
MPs attendance records kept secret
OTTAWA — Spending habits aren’t the only things MPs want to conceal these days — their attendance records are also off limits to the public. Despite rules docking MPs and senators pay if they miss more than 21 days of work during a sitting of Parliament,
DPRK Hardliners Sink Talks?
As North Korea warns of war, Patrick Cronin asks if Pyongyang hardliners are trying to scupper their own country’s diplomacy.
U.S. Implicates North Korean Leader in Attack
A new American intelligence analysis of a deadly torpedo attack on a South Korean warship concludes that Kim Jong-il, the ailing leader of North Korea, must have authorized the torpedo assault, according to senior American officials who cautioned that the
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