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Political | 206457 hits | 10:59 AM on Sunday | posted by Guy_Fawkes

Iran says it successfully tested short-range missiles during military drills on Sunday, days after the international community condemned the Iranian government for secretly building an underground nuclear facility.

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Political | 206726 hits | 7:53 AM on Sunday | posted by bootlegga

Overnight, plates reading "Marc Bureau: Expiration November 2009" were attached to some of the police service's fleet by members of the city's police force. Gatineau's municipal election will take place on Nov. 1.

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Political | 206898 hits | 4:55 AM on Sunday | posted by leewgrant

Michael Ignatieff – writer, thinker and star presenter of BBC2's The Late Show in the 90s – is back in Canada after nearly three decades, and is the man most likely to become the country's next prime minister. But is his national pride the real thing or i

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Political | 206615 hits | 3:41 PM on Saturday | posted by ridenrain

PITTSBURGH — Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, appearing to forget that his countrymen are generally known for their modesty, declared on Friday that his nation was the envy of the world.

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Political | 206682 hits | 12:39 PM on Saturday | posted by OnTheIce

The fierce squabble over Martin Cauchon's political comeback is symptomatic of a party that has lost sight of the most basic tenets of democracy, says a former national director of the Liberal party.

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Political | 206716 hits | 12:17 PM on Saturday | posted by stokes

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has cancelled a planned visit to Canada next week. A Canadian government official told CBC News on Saturday that Gadhafi won't be landing in Newfoundland early next week to refuel his plane and stay for a night

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Political | 207937 hits | 10:48 AM on Saturday | posted by gigs

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is outshining rival Michael Ignatieff and putting the Conservatives on track for a possible majority in the next election, a new Angus Reid Strategies/Toronto Star poll has found.

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Political | 206748 hits | 4:53 AM on Saturday | posted by 1Peg

Once again, blogs are Not news items. Story link is in the forums.

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Political | 206742 hits | 7:40 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

OTTAWA — Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is predicting that Prime Minister Stephen Harper will find a way to engineer an election this fall, even as he attacks Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff for trying to send Canadians to the polls.

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Political | 206774 hits | 7:34 PM on Friday | posted by Hyack

How can you vote for people when you wouldn't even throw them a rope?

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Political | 206571 hits | 4:41 PM on Friday | posted by leewgrant

My own sense is that he'll make a seriously bad candidate, due to what I'd call his narcissism. This isn't so much about adoring yourself, as being so self-absorbed that your sense of how others react to you goes missing. A therapist I know says it usuall

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Political | 206729 hits | 8:38 AM on Friday | posted by WDHIII

OTTAWA — The federal Liberals said Friday they would ban all taxpayer funded "politicized" government advertising if they come to power.

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Political | 206697 hits | 8:33 AM on Friday | posted by WDHIII

OTTAWA -- Decades of evidence on prison policy is being trumped by ideology and populist pandering, says an independent report on the Conservative government's corrections road map.

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Political | 206502 hits | 8:23 AM on Friday | posted by ridenrain

The federal government has asked Canada's privacy commissioner to look into whether the RCMP should have passed on personal information from the national gun registry to a pollster.

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Political | 206540 hits | 8:21 AM on Friday | posted by ridenrain

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is facing increasing pressure from within his caucus to accommodate former cabinet minister Martin Cauchon, who wants to run in the next election. In interviews with CBC News, several Liberal MPs went public with their

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Political | 206824 hits | 8:15 AM on Friday | posted by stokes

Victoria has failed in its bid to secure $42 million in infrastructure funding to offset the $63-million cost of replacing the Johnson Street Bridge, but the majority of council still seems intent on pushing ahead.

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Political | 206942 hits | 12:10 AM on Friday | posted by DerbyX

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Political | 206683 hits | 9:49 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

VANCOUVER, B.C. - Construction projects should soon be springing up across the province now that British Columbia has finally inked a deal with Ottawa to get more than $1 billion in stimulus funds.

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Political | 206499 hits | 6:27 PM on Thursday | posted by ridenrain

Democratic Reform Minister Steven Fletcher is in the advanced stages of preparing legislation that would reshape the House of Commons, adding dozens of seats to the three fast-growing provinces that are now seriously underrepresented.

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Political | 206490 hits | 4:26 PM on Thursday | posted by ridenrain

OTTAWA – The fierce squabble over Martin Cauchon's political comeback is symptomatic of a party that has lost sight of the most basic tenets of democracy, says a former national director of the Liberal party. "We've turned into one big appointment soci

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Political | 206611 hits | 2:18 PM on Thursday | posted by uwish

When it comes to healthcare and guns, Canadians have no reason to be smug by Michael Cust - 24/09/2009 In their August 21st editorial "Locked and Loaded", the Edmonton Journal's editorial board argues that America's ongoing healthcare debate leaves

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Political | 206671 hits | 1:32 PM on Thursday | posted by gigs

Ignatieff and Kennedy released their report among an old soy bean field in Burlington where they say no progress has been made on the creation of the New City Park.

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Political | 206646 hits | 11:34 AM on Thursday | posted by Guy_Fawkes

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi will stop in St. John's, N.L. on his way home from the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York City, the prime minister's office has said.

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Political | 206924 hits | 8:02 AM on Thursday | posted by WDHIII

The Conservative government plans to bring in an American-style prison system that will cost billions of taxpayer dollars and do little to improve public safety, according to a report to be released Thursday in Ottawa.

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Political | 206844 hits | 6:05 AM on Thursday | posted by gigs

The EKOS poll, DONE EXCLUSIVELY FOR THE CBC and released Thursday, shows the Tories with 37 per cent support, followed by the Liberals with 29.9 per cent. The New Democratic Party followed with 13.8 per cent, the Green Party with 10.2 per cent and the Blo

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Political | 206900 hits | 10:24 PM on Wednesday | posted by KorbenDeck

Some Ontario First Nations leaders are urging the federal government to take their treaty rights into account when implementing the harmonized sales tax (HST) in Ontario and exempt them completely from the new tax.

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Political | 206563 hits | 6:21 PM on Wednesday | posted by ridenrain

Ignatieff sparked a backlash within the party when he confirmed Monday that he's decided to appoint a woman as the Liberal candidate in Outremont, a Montreal riding held by Cauchon for 11 years before his retirement from politics in 2004.

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Political | 206474 hits | 8:10 AM on Wednesday | posted by ridenrain

Mr. Ignatieff's attempts to portray Mr. Harper as a hardline right-winger, whose ideology has been "blown out of the water" by the events of the past year, have gained little traction, according to an exclusive advance copy of a Nanos Research poll to be

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Political | 206777 hits | 2:03 PM on Tuesday | posted by ridenrain

Ignatieff was heckled by a small group of unhappy farmers about the single sales tax as the Liberal float passed by. John and Lee McIlwraith said they shouted at Ignatieff to stop the tax because they're concerned about the impact it will have on their c

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Political | 206561 hits | 1:56 PM on Tuesday | posted by ridenrain

Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff says he will keep Prime Minister Stephen Harper's controversial harmonized sales tax if his party wins power in the next federal election.

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Political | 206275 hits | 12:26 PM on Tuesday | posted by stemmer

In the days before last weekend's conservative march on Washington, Beck flogged it repeatedly. He became such a part of the story that, as CNN correspondent Lisa Desjardins tried to report live from the event, protesters drowned her out with chants of "G

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Political | 206819 hits | 5:32 AM on Tuesday | posted by 1Peg

Michael Wilson’s opinion of free trade with the United States has come a long way since he dismissed it as a “simplistic and naive” idea that would “diminish our ability to compete internationally.”

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Political | 206853 hits | 12:27 PM on Monday | posted by gigs

"We'll open the books and find out where we really are," Ignatieff said in a speech to the Toronto Board of Trade on Monday.

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Political | 206547 hits | 7:44 AM on Monday | posted by ridenrain

The choice before New Democrats is simple: We can direct nearly $1 billion to families in desperate need or waste $300 million on an election.

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Political | 206687 hits | 6:47 AM on Monday | posted by ridenrain

"He's put absolutely nothing on the table. It's just empty rhetoric," a top Liberal who supported Mr. Ignatieff (Etobicoke-Lakeshore, Ont.) in both of his leadership campaigns told The Hill Times last week. "It's not enough to say, 'That in good times we'

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Political | 206702 hits | 6:34 AM on Monday | posted by QBall

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Political | 206736 hits | 7:33 AM on Sunday | posted by stokes

One of the most annoying things about Stephen Harper is that he gets away with it. He gets away with being partisan. He sticks his thumb on his nose and wiggles his fingers at his opponents, and gets away with it.

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Political | 206679 hits | 8:51 PM on Saturday | posted by Hyack

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has won her party's nomination to run in the B.C. riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands in the next federal election.

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Political | 206850 hits | 2:16 PM on Saturday | posted by DerbyX

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Political | 206852 hits | 9:37 AM on Friday | posted by stokes

Liberal Leader scoffs after minorty Conservative government's budget motion passes with support of the New Democrats and the Bloc Québécois

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Political | 206890 hits | 7:55 AM on Friday | posted by WDHIII

The House of Commons has passed a crucial ways-and-means motion that has saved Prime Minister Stephen Harper's minority government from potentially facing an election campaign

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Political | 206730 hits | 7:43 AM on Friday | posted by 1Peg

The Secret Service and the D.C. police brought in three dozen vehicles and shut down H Street, Vermont Avenue, two lanes of I Street and an entrance to the McPherson Square Metro station. They swept the area, in front of the Department of Veterans Affairs

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Political | 206853 hits | 5:37 AM on Friday | posted by Hyack

OTTAWA–The Liberals have offered to speed passage of the Conservative government's proposed employment insurance legislation, hoping to rob the NDP of its rationale for propping up the government.

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Political | 206671 hits | 5:35 AM on Friday | posted by Hyack

OTTAWA - Canadian taxpayers picked up the tab for tens of thousands of dollars worth of booze over the past year for receptions and other events

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Political | 206644 hits | 5:34 AM on Friday | posted by Hyack

MONTREAL - For those Stephen Harper loyalists who believed the party Thursday celebrating Brian Mulroney's 1984 electoral victory would be a display of renewed party unity, the evening was a clear miscalculation.

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Political | 206658 hits | 5:49 PM on Thursday | posted by Hyack

OTTAWA - A Liberal MP has introduced a private member's bill aimed at letting American "war resisters" stay in Canada.

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Political | 209013 hits | 2:31 PM on Thursday | posted by bootlegga

The federal health minister has formally ordered a probe into why the government sent body bags to a Manitoba reserve for flu preparedness, calling what happened "insensitive and offensive." "As minister of health and as an aboriginal, I am offended,"

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Political | 206618 hits | 12:32 PM on Thursday | posted by ridenrain

OTTAWA — The Liberals have offered to speed passage of Tory EI legislation, hoping to rob the NDP of its rationale for propping up the Harper government. The Liberals proposed Thursday that the bill - worth up to $1 billion in extended employment insur

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Political | 206625 hits | 10:14 AM on Thursday | posted by gigs

The EKOS poll, commissioned for the CBC and released Thursday, shows the Tories with 35.1 per cent support, followed by the Liberals with 29.9 per cent. The New Democratic Party followed with 16.5 per cent, the Bloc Quebecois with 9.6 per cent and the Gre

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Political | 206837 hits | 8:50 AM on Thursday | posted by WDHIII

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is on Capitol Hill today to meet with Congressional leaders and press the Americans on protectionist policies that are causing grief to Canadian manufacturers.

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