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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Layton says NDP ready for prime time |
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Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 8:13 pm
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| "The reality is there are only two parties that have the capacity to form a government in this country: the Conservative party and the Liberal party. Those are the alternative governments," said Goodale. "The NDP, with the Bloc, is a fringe player." The real "fringe" pl... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: New Thinktank Unveiled, Modelled After Council on Foreign Re |
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:27 pm
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| These think tanks provide free partisan support to any political party that will support their interests. They provide the "soft money" support on which political parties will more and more come to rely because there is no limits on what they can spend to present their agenda. It is intere... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: A million voters could be disenfranchised |
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:20 pm
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| The revisions do leave a great deal up to interpretation. With all the debate over the issue of facial identification it is evident that there are sections of this legislation that are poorly worded. Some MPs have found fault with the idea that people were allowed, in the last election, to use thing... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: A million voters could be disenfranchised |
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 1:28 pm
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| Elections Canada has only one million voters affected because they don't have civic addresses. However, there is another segment of the voting public that has civic addresses but their photo I.D.s have their mailing addresses not their civic addresses. It is not clear whether these addresses, such a... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Fears of Harper majority waning, poll shows |
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Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 11:17 am
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| This is an extremely misleading heading. The findings are being "spun" by the media to try to make Harper look good. What actual figures show is that 58 per cent of decided voters support a majority government. Thirty four per cent of those prefer a Harper majority. Voters were only given ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Canadian Democracy, is it broken? |
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 6:11 pm
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You might want to look at this too.<br />
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<a href="http://www.dwatch.ca/camp/RelsMar2907.html">http://www.dwatch.ca/camp/RelsMar2907.html</a><br /> |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Canadian Democracy, is it broken? |
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Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 11:06 am
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| That was my conclusion. Here in Nova Scotia the issue over Bill Casey has become a major bell weather issue for federal politics and is spilling over into the provincial Progressive Conservative Party. Party members are seeing the way that the centralization of power within the office of the leader ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Canadian Democracy, is it broken? |
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Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:39 pm
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| Some here may be interested in the following link.<br /> <br /> It is the report of a study commissioned by the federal government in January and reported in September with no media fanfare that I can locate. It only came to my attention yesterday.<br /> <br /> <a href="ht... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Number Two: Stephen Harper's Second Speech from the Throne |
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Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:38 pm
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| Harper is accumulating negative baggage at a rapid rate and that is why he is eager for an election. While Harper is being applauded and lauded by the media he may be too "cute" by half and generate a backlash. (1) He made what is essential a vague promise to Nova Scotia to provide some ki... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Number Two: Stephen Harper's Second Speech from the Throne |
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 5:31 pm
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| Did I mess up that last post!!! |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Number Two: Stephen Harper's Second Speech from the Throne |
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Posted: Wed Oct 17, 2007 3:53 pm
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| There is no doubt that this new Conservative Party is nothing more than an bunch of ignorant goons. After listening to the racket they were making, to the point one could not hear Dion's speech, I underlined to me why I left the party after the merger. This was the same kind of tactics they used to ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: N.S. Tories Defy Harper, Back Rebel MP |
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Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:45 pm
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| It is sad that Harper has chosen to try to divide the Nova Scotia provincial PC Party. His belief in the principle of "divide and conquer" is evident in this strategy. It is not clear if the decision for MacDonald to come out publicly in support of any new Conservative candidate chosen for... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Canadian Democracy, is it broken? |
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Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 7:21 pm
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| I agree totally with the idea of having governments only fall on a clear confidence vote. I also believe that no party leader should be able to prevent a riding association from nominating the candidate of their choice. I have no problem with the leader making an elected MP sit as an independent if ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Globalize Canadian Forests! |
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2007 11:56 am
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| Remember that until the Mulroney Administration the PC Party was nationalistic in focus. While there are many Canadians who are not globalists there is no major political party that questions the direction that globalism is taking us. They are all globalist parties whether we like it or not because ... |
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Forum: Editorial Discussions Topic: Price of Gasoline (Canada vs USA) |
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Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 6:09 pm
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| The problem is that the per capita income is a poor measure to use because of the larger inequality of incomes in the United States. In fact, some researchers suggest that the use of those statistics have been highly inaccurate since about the 1970s. A more accurate statistic is the median income bu... |
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