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A new poll suggests most Canadians think Stéphane Dion is weak, uninspiring and unintelligible.
But, for all his flaws, they still find the Liberal leader somewhat more likable than Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean charmed French media and even had President Nicolas Sarkozy swooning during a visit to France that also saw a significant shift in relations between the two countries.
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 Nevertheless, when respondents were given details of British Columbia's recent carbon tax plan as one way to tackle the problem, support dropped dramatically. According to the insider, the poll found 30 per cent strongly opposed to the idea and 12 per ce
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 The Tory government announced a multi-billion-dollar 20-year plan to strengthen Canada's military, which includes the purchase of new aircraft, armoured vehicles, ships and helicopters and a goal to expand the Forces to 100,000.
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The cartoon, published April 18 in the Chronicle Herald newspaper, depicts a woman in a burka holding a sign that reads, "I want millions," and she says, "I can put it towards my husband's next training camp."
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 Stéphane Dion is poised to unveil a carbon-tax scheme and attempt to neutralize any political damage by offering corresponding personal income tax cuts of between $10-billion and $13-billion to working Canadians, senior Liberal sources say.
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The NDP is wielding government documents to suggest that Conservative cabinet minister Bev Oda racked up thousands of dollars in hidden expenses for limousine rides.
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An RCMP affidavit revealed this week in Federal Court states that federal voters lists were among the "most disturbing" items seized in raids on the World Tamil Movement's Toronto offices in 2006. Police said the lists were the type that are sent to fe
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OTTAWA — Neither David Dingwall nor Canada Post will say what Mr. Dingwall did for the Crown corporation to earn $280,000 in 2002 and 2003.
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 Canada is a signatory to the Kyoto Protocol, a climate change treaty that commits 38 countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions by an average of about five per cent below 1990 levels by 2012.
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 Liberal leader Stéphane Dion said that, if he's elected prime minister, the work will get done.
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Sheila Fraser, the federal Auditor-General, yesterday released her latest report on Ottawa's management of its programs and spending. As in the past, the Auditor-General found many areas in which government spending was excessive or lacked proper oversig
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The Liberals adjusted the rules for the event but, in calls I placed after the event, would not divulge how much was raised for the party.
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Polling plan needs to be probed by Elections Canada
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 Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean, described as Canada's beautiful and intelligent "almost Queen" by a prestigious French magazine, says all Canadians should feel pangs of pride over events here marking Quebec City's 400th anniversary.
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 When asked why Rabinovitch had to stay at one of the most expensive hotels in the world for those meetings, Chambers said "all hotels in London were expensive."
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Costs and delays – not excessive secrecy – drove the Conservatives to shut down a key Access to Information database, says Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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 ST. JOHN'S, N.L. -- It's encouraging that members of the Canadian military are trying to engage in dialogue with insurgents in Afghanistan, federal New Democrat Leader Jack Layton said Saturday.
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The second day of the Pierre Poilievre era goes about as smoothly as the first
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Another CPC attack on accountability.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservatives command 34% in support among decided voters, compared with 29% for the Liberals, according to the nationwide survey, which was conducted exclusively for Canwest News Service and Global National.
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Just weeks before it announced the onset of a global food crisis and the urgent need for donors to provide at least $775 million in additional funding, the World Food Program was sitting on a cash and near-cash stockpile of more than $1.22 billion.
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An article published in the International Journal of Drug Policy charges that the Conservative government interfered in the work of independent scientific bodies, attempted to muzzle scientists and deliberately misrepresented research findings because it
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"We are taking those concerns into consideration while we develop those policies, and ensuring that the independence of agents of Parliament is not negatively affected," Toews spokesperson Mike Storeshaw said in an email yesterday.
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Conservatives reveal just how far they'll go to cover up their money laundering scheme - tastes like fascism.
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 "The bill should not be amended," he told reporters yesterday. "A tax bill is a confidence bill. We all know that."
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 Dion is said to have told his MPs at yesterday's caucus meeting that with the economy deteriorating and Conservatives' fortunes waning in the polls, the summer will present an opportunity for Liberals to put their own vision on the table.
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If an election were held this spring, the Conservative caucus could find itself with a lot more Quebec MPs.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE51qZlfQuY&eurl=http://climbingoutofthedark.blogspot.com/2008/04/one-two-knockout-punch.html
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Listening today to one Bloc Québécois MP after another get up to denounce "in and out" financing and praise Elections Canada, those bells started to ring even louder.
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 The federal government is facing some harsh accusations from the advocates of a Canadian citizen who returned to his native Sudan several years ago but has not been allowed to come home.
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