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Quebec Student Strikes

Posted at 6:49 on May 18, 2012 by ottlib
One thing I have always admired about Quebecers is their lack of tolerance of their governments giving them what they perceive to be a bad deal.  It does not matter what group it is or the political stripe of the government that is committing the perceived wrong, they make it very difficult for any government to do so without consequences. We are seeing that this mind set runs deep and it runs thoughtout the province, including in the youth.  I sa...
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Bloggers   NDP

Harper’s Conservative Government Funded Study Arguing Canada Suffers From ‘Dutch Disease’

Posted at 6:48 on May 18, 2012 by leftdog
Ooops!  OTTAWA – The Harper government has funded research that argues Canada’s economy suffers from so-called Dutch Disease, an economic theory the prime minister and other senior officials ridiculed when raised recently by NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.  Industry Canada paid $25,000 to three academics to produce the lengthy study, which is about to be published in a prestigious journal, Resource and Energy Economics...
Bloggers   Conservative

Quebec Student Protests: My advice to Police… Do Nothing

Posted at 5:24 on May 18, 2012 by noreply@blogger.com Robert G. Harvie
Well. To begin with, Quebec Students are protesting, sometimes violently, against the proposed increases in tuition which would still leave them with the lowest post-secondary tuition in Canada. While students in Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia are completing their spring semesters and many going into their summer semesters, working hard to stake a place in a difficult economy, students in Quebec are doing their best to make it clear that the lowest tuition in Canada isn’t ...
Bloggers   Liberal

Judge overturns Etobicoke-Centre election result

Posted at 5:01 on May 18, 2012 by Nancy Leblanc
“I declare the election null and void as contemplated under s.531(2) of the Canada Elections Act.” (para. 154) The overturned result is making the rounds all over, reported here at CBC & ...
Conservative   MPs & Senators

PRIME MINISTER HARPER ANNOUNCES SUPPORT TO INCREASE FOOD SECURITY AND NUTRITION IN AFRICA

Posted at 4:49 on May 18, 2012 by David Schulz
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced support for a new initiative aimed at addressing the challenges of agricultural productivity in Africa. The initiative was announced by Barack Obama, President of the United States, at the Symposium on Global Agriculture and Food Security in Washington, D.C. The New Alliance for Food and Nutrition Security will allow African partners, G-8 countries, other donors and the private sector to create new and innovative partnerships ...
Bloggers   Conservative

Somebody is experimenting with explosive pebbles

Posted at 4:48 on May 18, 2012 by MariaS
USA? Russia? China? Who?  Either that or these could be porous pebbles that have absorbed radiation from other experiments or something unknown to us as yet from the gas emitted  from quakes along that coastline. Very intriguing. ….A California mother is recovering from second- and third-degree burns after colored rocks her famil...
Liberal

Look Before You Leap

Posted at 3:50 on May 18, 2012 by Jane Wells
Trying out new themes is fun, isn’t it? I think so! The thing about changing my blog’s theme that has traditionally bugged me, though, is the 10-15 minutes right after you click “Activate” when you have to rush through uploading a new custom header, maybe resetting the background, fiddling with a new sidebar configuration, and other transition adjustments so that people won’t see your site in a half-switched state. Maybe I’m overly sensitive to that —...
Bloggers   NDP

Key measures of Quebec’s Bill 78 Anti-Protest Law

Posted at 3:24 on May 18, 2012 by kevin harding
For background, via StudentActivism.net: ...
Bloggers   Liberal

Rematch in Etobicoke Centre

Posted at 2:25 on May 18, 2012 by calgarygrit
Despite all the close votes over the years, this is a first: Election result in Toronto riding thrown out by judge Conservative MP Ted Opitz’s 2011 federal election win last year in Etobicoke Centre was declared null and void today in a challenge by former Liberal MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj. Opitz won the May 2011...
Bloggers   Liberal

Woot! Borys wins!

Posted at 2:24 on May 18, 2012 by Warren
Take that, Con cheaters! Woot! ...
Bloggers   Liberal

Holy Crap: Etobicoke Centre Federal Election Result Declared Null And Void!

Posted at 2:01 on May 18, 2012 by bigcitylib
Due to “irregularities” in the vote.  This is important for several reasons.  It seeds the media with CPoC-as-vote -fraudster stories for several weeks (at least until the Supreme Court issues its decision).  And if the SC concurs, it coughs up an eminently LPoC-winnable seat in bye-election that will have an immense symbolic significance: no l...
Bloggers   Conservative

Iran Islamic Republic’s Press TV is operating in Canada

Posted at 1:48 on May 18, 2012 by BC Blue
Is it within the Canadian Radio-television Telecommunications Commission’s ability to stop the mouth-piece of the Iranian dictatorship from operating in Canada? The Executive Director of HonestReporting Canada exposes that Press TV has been act...
Conservative   MPs & Senators

Niagara Regional Athletic Centre

Posted at 12:49 on May 18, 2012 by David Schulz
We are pleased to announce the purchase of the facility located at 16 Melbourne Avenue formally known as the St. Catharines Racquet Athletics Club. The existing club has a long history in the community and currently is home to Tennis, Squash, Fitness and the Soccer groups. It is an exciting time to be investing in the St. Catharines core and we see this as a great opportunity to facilitate the development of both the recreational and residential components of this property...
Bloggers   NDP

“Please be kind enough to let us know the number of plainclothes officers who will infiltrate our event so we can order the appropriate catering.” – Gatineau Chamber of Commerce on Bill 78

Posted at 12:48 on May 18, 2012 by kevin harding
Hot off the Twitter presses, courtesy of @NieDesrochers of Radio Canada, comes this letter from the Gatineau Chamber of Commerce: NOTICE OF A GATHERING OF MORE THA...
Bloggers   Conservative

Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page tried to get fired by Conservatives

Posted at 12:25 on May 18, 2012 by BC Blue
In an unbelievable interview with the fawning Tim Harper from the Star,  Parliamentary Budget Officer Kevin Page openly admits he uses his public office to intentionally provoke the government: But when the firing did not come, the ferociously inde...
Bloggers   Conservative

Mark Levin reads out Allen West’s letter to Obama

Posted at 11:48 on May 18, 2012 by MariaS
Go to TheRightScoop to listen. This is about the terrorist who was released into Iraqi custody and found not guilty in the Iraqi courts and released. What did Obama expect from muslim nations who are out to get as many infidels as possible? There’s also a vid there of Allen West talking to FoxNews on the...
Bloggers   Conservative

Who’s Afraid of the Liberals?

Posted at 10:48 on May 18, 2012 by noreply@blogger.com Robert G. Harvie
Effective Political Statement?  Suddenly, I feel compelled to vote Liberal.  Not.  ...
Bloggers   Conservative

Communicating policy change: OAS and EI

Posted at 10:24 on May 18, 2012 by noreply@blogger.com Hugh MacIntyre
The wild speculation is over. The Conservative government has finally announced some more details to their proposed Employment Insurance reforms. I won’t go into the details (you can read them here), but I will say that it looks like a pretty moderate change. I would argue that it is a prudent change but not a drastic one. I have to wonder why the government was s...
Conservative   MPs & Senators

PM to attend G-8 and NATO Summits

Posted at 9:26 on May 18, 2012 by David Schulz
Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that he will travel to the United States to participate in the G-8 Leaders’ Summit at Camp David, Maryland, on May 18 and 19, 2012. He will then participate in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Summit in Chicago, Illinois, on May 20 and 21, 2012. At the G-8 Summit, Prime Minister Harper will reinforce Canada’s commitment to working with international partners to bring forward concrete solutions to the world’s mo...
Bloggers   NDP

If the shoe fits…

Posted at 9:00 on May 18, 2012 by noreply@blogger.com Cliff
Black said he was not pleased that the New Democrat called him a “British criminal” while speaking in the House of Commons. “If he wants to divest himself of his parliamentary immunity, it would certainly be my pleasure to sue him for defamation,” Black told Mansbridge. Except truth is a d...