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Premier Ed Stelmach facing growing discontent as Alberta faces hard times
DRAYTON VALLEY, Alta. — Bev Reuteman is among a growing number of Albertans facing hard times. Lost in the Canadian leadership vacuum
Looking ahead to 2010, Canada's political leadership scene is as bleak as a January landscape. Canadians are desperate for big ideas about how to make our country and our cities dynamic and exciting, but all we have for leaders is a group of pipsqueaks an Rookie minister gets tough portfolio
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper named first-time federal MP Leona Aglukkaq to his cabinet in late 2008, he couldn't have imagined the roller-coaster ride that lay ahead for the rookie health minister. Hockey coach turned senator new to the game
OTTAWA — Newbie senator and former hockey coach Jacques Demers says he finds the Senate boring and childish at times, but it’s still a place where he hopes to make a difference. Harper's winners and losers: the Tory team graded
Nearly four years ago, when the Harper government came to power, the cabinet was filled with either rookie ministers or the rare Mulroney leftover. Now it's filled with a few veteran ministers who have put a stamp on their portfolios, for better or worse.
Babies, beer and blurry photos: MP Christmas cards
OTTAWA - Santa hats, Christmas trees, loving families, messages of cheer - and a beer-drinking soldier? This year's batch of holiday cards from MPs has all the traditional political requisites, and a few surprises. Proroguing Parliament not ruled out: Harper
A year after Prime Minister Stephen Harper prorogued Parliament to avoid a no-confidence vote, in his year-end media interviews he isn't ruling out doing it again Charest rips into Harper government over environment
MONTREAL — A war of words has erupted between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the premier of Quebec, with Jean Charest tearing a strip off Ottawa's environmental performance Feds post job to monitor seal hunt web chatter
OTTAWA - Canada's Olympic mascots are meant to be cute and cuddly, but visit one anti-sealing website and you'll see Quatchi angrily wielding a club and blood dripping from Miga's snarling jaws. Harper hopes carbon tax not in Canada's future, but won't rule it out
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Stephen Harper is not ruling out a carbon tax for sometime in the country's future, saying the government must look to see what happens south of the border. Prentice takes aim at provincial leaders
OTTAWA – Environment Minister Jim Prentice lashed out at provincial leaders Sunday for “working against their own country” at climate change talks in Copenhagen. Duceppe: divide widening between Tories, Quebec
OTTAWA — The more Prime Minister Stephen Harper moves to nip Alberta’s growing Wildrose movement in the bud on the federal scene, the more he risks deepening the divide between his government and Quebecers, says Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe. May focused on B.C. riding win
OTTAWA — After battling her way into the federal election debates last year, Green party Leader Elizabeth May spent most of 2009 out of the national spotlight, raising her riding profile instead. Ottawa and environmentalist disagree on final Copenhagen agreement
MONTREAL - The federal government wasted no time Saturday trying to take some of the sting out of criticism that it failed to play a meaningful role in global climate change talks in Denmark that produced a shaky agreement. Ignatieff shrugs off retirement rumours, vows to win in long haul
OTTAWA - Jean Chretien once offered to risk his neck bungee jumping in a bid to squelch persistent rumours of ill health that plagued him during his troubled tenure as official Opposition leader. 'Meaningful deal' reached at Copenhagen climate summit
"It seems there are too few politicians in this world capable of looking beyond the horizon of their own narrow self-interest, let alone caring much for the millions of people who are facing down the threat of climate change," d.
"It is now evident tha Candu reactor division to be sold
The federal government is selling off its commercial Candu reactor division, Natural Resources Minister Lisa Raitt announced on Thursday. Tories skip Afghan committee meeting
An emergency meeting of the special Commons committee on Afghanistan could not go ahead Tuesday when all seven Conservative members failed to show up. Eastern Canada won't cut back on West's dirty moneyPolitical | 207086 hits | 5:12 PM on Tuesday | posted by Alta_redneck
Inconvenient truth for Al Gore as his North Pole sums don't add up
the climatologist whose work Mr Gore was relying upon dropped the former Vice-President in the water with an icy blast.
“It’s unclear to me how this figure was arrived at,” Dr Maslowski said. “I would never try to estimate likelihood at anything as exa MacKay won't resign over torture scandal
Defence Minister Peter MacKay will not resign from cabinet over allegations that he knew suspected Taliban prisoners were tortured after being turned over to Afghan police by the Canadian military, he said Monday Tories mulled weaker oil-gas emission targets: documents
The Conservative government has considered abandoning some of the greenhouse gas reduction goals set out in its 2007 green plan and allowing weaker targets for the oil and gas sector MPs taught Twitter etiquette
OTTAWA - No tweets allowed about that bagel you had for breakfast - only a twit would have a staffer tweet in their place. Prince William to share Queen's duties: Treasury document reveals secret plan to make him the 'Shadow King'
Secret papers reveal that plans to ease the strain on the 83-year-old monarch and her 88-year-old husband, Prince Philip, are at an advanced stage. Tories fire session-ending shot at Liberals
The Liberals, he said, have politicized the investments made to stimulate the economy, the preparations for the H1N1 flu pandemic, and the work of soldiers in Afghanistan. “They took the side of a foreign government and state-controlled press on the quest Parliament set for holiday recess
Parliament was to begin its holiday recess Friday with MPs scheduled to return to the House on Jan. 25. Winter Olympians urge Harper to back climate solution
"We have written a letter to the prime minsiter, to encourage him to go to Cophenagen and to be a constructive leader, to be a real leader in the talks towards a climate change resolution," said Grandi.
Egypt starts building steel wall on Gaza Strip border
Egypt has begun constructing a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip as it attempts to cut smuggling tunnels, the BBC has learned.
Egypt has begun constructing a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip as it attempts to cut smuggling tunnels, the BBC has learned.Back to Canada News
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