Tories set to steer new course on health care funding
Andre Picard: Tories set to steer new course on health care fundingInstead of a long-term deal with all 13 provinces and territories, we can expect a short extension of the current deal – which would...
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Battle to slay the budget deficit continues to stall
Economist Stephen Gordon: Battle to slay the budget deficit continues to stallThe steep decline in the 12-month moving sum that was produced by the recession finally turned around in early 2010, but...
View ArticleTrade Minister launches blistering attack on NDP
Trade Minister launches blistering attack on NDP:In a downtown Ottawa speech Thursday morning, International Trade Minister Ed Fast launched a fresh partisan attack on the new Official Opposition,...
View ArticleHarper loyalist Dimitri Soudas stepping down as PMO spokesman
Harper loyalist Dimitri Soudas stepping down as PMO spokesmanWhen Mr. Harper became Prime Minister in 2006, Mr. Soudas was closely linked to the PMO’s efforts to impose greater control on...
View ArticleHarper's Throne Speech delays dealing with hard decisions
Jeffrey Simpson: Harper's Throne Speech delays dealing with hard decisionsFinancial crises are a real drag. They pull down economies very quickly, but recovery is prolonged, tough and uncertain.That...
View ArticleThe raft of tough-on-crime legislation Tories have yet to pass
Preview of the upcoming tough-on-crime omnibus bill: The raft of tough-on-crime legislation Tories have yet to pass
View ArticleForget what Tories say, Ottawa has structural deficit
Stephen Gordon: Forget what Tories say, Ottawa has structural deficitYesterday’s budget was an implicit admission of a problem whose existence the Conservatives had spent quite some time denying: the...
View ArticleOpposition blows gasket as PM jets to Canucks-Bruins game
Opposition blows gasket as PM jets to Canucks-Bruins game:Prime Minister Stephen Harper is being accused of wasting taxpayer dollars for his decision to use a government jet to attend the Stanley Cup...
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G8 spending in Clement's riding left ‘no paper trail'
G8 spending in Clement's riding left ‘no paper trail'Senior Conservative officials broke federal rules to shower $50-million on the riding of the minister now overseeing Ottawa’s austerity plan,...
View ArticleHarper speech on foreign policy
Harper speech fires up convention crowd:Canada has a purpose now that the country has a Conservative majority government, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Friday night in a speech to 2,300 party...
View ArticleSenior Conservative hints Harper could go nuclear on Senate reform
Senior Conservative hints Harper could go nuclear on Senate reform:Jason Kenney is suggesting his boss Stephen Harper could do away with the Senate if his Conservative caucus in the Red Chamber doesn’t...
View ArticleTories cite deficit in eliminating auditing jobs
Tories cite deficit in eliminating auditing jobs:On the chopping block is Audit Services Canada, an auditing shop available for a fee to all other departments that bills itself as having “a 50-year...
View ArticleWhy are so many young Quebecers still sovereigntists? It's cooler
Andre Pratte of La Presse:For the past 30 years, support for independence has been remarkably stable at 40 per cent, except for two brief periods (after the failure of the Meech Lake Accord and in the...
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Canada's crime rate at lowest level in almost 40 years
From the Globe and Mail:New statistics show the national crime rate is continuing its 20-year decline – reaching levels not seen since 1973 even as the federal Conservative government prepares...
View ArticleCoal power plant races against regulation
Globe and Mail, earlier this month:Maxim Power Corp. is racing to beat proposed federal emission regulations that could derail its plan to build a 500-megawatt coal-fired power plant in the mountains...
View ArticleToxins locked in Arctic deep freeze released by melting ice
Vancouver Sun:Environment Canada sleuths have found that toxins such as PCBs that have been locked in an Arctic deep freeze are being "remobilized" as the climate warms.In a report published Sunday,...
View ArticleFeds silence scientist over salmon study
Ottawa Citizen:Top bureaucrats in Ottawa have muzzled a leading fisheries scientist whose discovery could help explain why salmon stocks have been crashing off Canada's West Coast, according to...
View ArticleWhat happens if the US fails to raise the debt ceiling?
Konrad Yakabuski, in the Globe and Mail: Debt-ceiling deniers court economic disaster.An analysis by [Jay] Powell, a visiting scholar at the Washington-based Bipartisan Policy Center, shows that the...
View ArticleDoug Griffiths on Alberta's fiscal gap
From Alberta, Canada's richest province: Most Tory leadership hopefuls say taxes, royalties won't rise.Of the six candidates - Doug Horner, Gary Mar, Rick Orman, Doug Griffiths, Alison Redford and Ted...
View ArticleJack Layton's last letter to Canadians
Jack Layton passed away yesterday, at 61. His final letter to Canadians: Tens of thousands of Canadians have written to me in recent weeks to wish me well. I want to thank each and every one of you for...
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