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Gap Between Tories and NDP Narrows

Will Canada elect an NDP government on May 2? By Gloria Galloway – from today’s Globe and Mail Newspaper The race between the Conservatives and the New Democrats appears to be tightening in what has become a dramatic race in the home stretch. A new poll conducted by Nanos Research for The Globe and Mail [...]

May 1, 2011 Politics, Uncategorized 0 Comments

President Obama Refuses to Act on Clemency Request for Charles Manson

By Ro Hurley In response to a request for clemency for Charles Manson by defense attorney Giovanni Di Stefano, the United States Department of Justice on behalf of President Barack Obama stated, “The President does not seek to intervene in State clemency issues,” and suggested that the request be sent instead to the current California [...]

April 21, 2011 Bloggers, Crime, Politics, World News 1 Comment

‘They dish it but they can’t take it,’ Ignatieff says after Liberals pull Harper quote

BILL CURRY AND JANE TABER (from Today’s Globe and Mail Newspaper, April 18, 2011) The Liberals are escalating their attack on Stephen Harper over the future of health care, portraying complaints from the Conservative war room as a sign of nervousness. Liberals say they will post an online poll Monday asking Canadians which new Harper [...]

April 18, 2011 Politics 0 Comments

Ignatieff’s rebuke of Harper majority hailed as Liberal ‘turning point’

By Jane Taber, from Today’s Globe and Mail Newspaper The Liberals are calling the 42-minute mark of the English-language debate the “turning point” for Michael Ignatieff and are urging supporters to spread the word, arguing the debate can be won twice – on debate night and in the court of public opinion long after it [...]

April 13, 2011 Bloggers, Politics 0 Comments

Judge denies Elizabeth May’s bid to join leaders’ debates

Green party Leader Elizabeth May has lost in her last-ditch effort to get in to the televised leaders’ debates. Federal Court judge Marc Nadon has decided not to expedite the case before the first debate on Tuesday. The party says it will look at all options before deciding whether to pursue the case any further. [...]

April 5, 2011 Bloggers, Politics 0 Comments

Harper sets federal election for May 2

The federal election is set for May 2 and it’s shaping up to be a campaign battle from C to C — coalition to contempt. Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced the date at Rideau Hall today and immediately made it clear he wants a majority to stave off a “reckless opposition coalition.” Liberal Leader Michael [...]

March 26, 2011 Politics, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Canada: It’s Election Time

By Gloria Galloway The second minority government of Stephen Harper has fallen. Early Friday afternoon, 156 opposition MPs – all of the Liberals, New Democrats and Bloquistes present in the House of Commons – rose to support a motion of no-confidence. It was also a motion that declared the government to be in contempt of [...]

March 25, 2011 Bloggers, Politics, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Mubarak resigns, military in charge

By MAGGIE MICHAEL and PAUL SCHEMM The Associated Press CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak resigned as president and handed control to the military on Friday, bowing down after a historic 18-day wave of pro-democracy demonstrations by hundreds of thousands. “The people ousted the president,” chanted a crowd of tens of thousands outside his presidential [...]

February 11, 2011 Politics, Uncategorized, World News 0 Comments

Canada has ‘Alice In Wonderland’ attitude on terrorism: Wikileaks

People read Monday's U.S. newspapers front pages outside the Newseum in Washington

Public Relations and Communications Firm With No Boundaries By Mitch Potter – Canadians have an “Alice In Wonderland” attitude toward global terrorism, the former head of Canada’s spy service told a U.S. counterpart in 2008, according to a secret American memo disclosed Monday. Canadian Security Intelligence Service Director Jim Judd is also quoted as saying [...]

November 30, 2010 Politics, World News 0 Comments

U.S. scrambles to contain diplomatic damage

Public Relations and Communications Firm With No Boundaries By Matthew Lee – Bristling over the unauthorized release of more than a quarter million classified State Department documents, the Obama White House on Monday ordered a government-wide review of how agencies safeguard sensitive information. The weekend release of documents reflecting, in some cases, unflattering assessments of [...]

November 29, 2010 Politics, Uncategorized, World News 0 Comments