Track stimulus spending on website, says Flaherty

Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty unveiled a website Wednesday that will allow Canadians to track how stimulus money is being spent by government.  Similar to the US government's Spending Tracker the Canadian site will only post information about stimulus spending...

Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean Warns Canadians of Tough Times Ahead

The Canadian parliament has resumed sitting after an unprecedented prorogue brought it to a halt on December 4, 2008.  Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean suspended parliament at the request of Prime Minister Stephen...

Coalition Stirs as Ignatieff Speaks Out on Harper Budget Leaks

Stephen Harper and his Conservative minority government have made sweeping changes to their budget plans in an effort to quash any further talk of a coalition government, but newly appointed Liberal leader...

How Canadians could buy out rather than bail out U.S. automakers

The book entitled The Proposed Canadian Automobile Transport and Arctic Climatic Protection Act: Toward an environmentally-sensitized and truly made-in-Canada car inspired by the Avro Arrow, was written with the recognition that Climate Change associated with Global...

Thousands Rally At Toronto’s City Hall To Support A Coalition Government

Federal Liberal leader Stéphane Dion and NDP leader Jack Layton addressed thousands of cold braving supporters at Toronto City Hall’s Nathan Phillips Square yesterday, to pitch their plan of a Liberal-NDP...

Liberals, NDP and Bloc to form Coalition: Read the Accord on a Cooperative Go...

Canada's three opposition parties; the Liberals, NDP and Bloc Quebecois may not be in opposition for much longer as the leaders; Stephane Dion, Jack Layton and GillesDuceppe , have drafted an Accord on a...

Tories Promote Lung Cancer

" The most common form of cancer associated with smoking is lung cancer. And women suffer from lung cancer more than men. And women and girls smoke more than men and boys. Remember this; Oda insists her government will instead fund organizations and programs she says more...

Income Trust Blowback

"Begins today. I guess these folks won't be voting for Harpers Conservatives. Meanwhile Financial Post (the Financial Post!!!) exposes the self interested business lobby that is pro Income Trusts; the Canadian Association of Income Trust Investors (CAITI) pointing out...

Income Trust Payback

"Industry Minister Maxime Bernier's autocratic decision to politically interfere directly in a CRTC decision, regarding eliminating the price caps that the two Big Telco Monopolies can charge, Telus and Bell. How does this increase competition?"

The Budget Item Flaherty Forgot

"Jim Flaherty in his Fall Fiscal Update forgot to mention this expense..... Ottawa has earmarked an extra $515 million for Canada's military mission in Afghanistan in the next bookkeeping year, keeping it on track, by one outside estimate, to reach a cost of about $9 billion...

Liberals Tories Same Old Stories

"And where have we heard this before? Why under thirteen years of Paul Martin and the Liberals! Feds post whopping $12 billion budget surplus And it's a lot larger than the $8-billion surplus forecast by Conservative Finance Minister Jim Flaherty in his first federal...

Bloggers Budget Reaction

"As expected there was uniform joy in the land of Blogging Tories over the Harpocrite budget. These guys are so predictable. The majority all cooed over the budget like the syncophants they are. And they denounce the left for being in lockstep. Ha."

Tories Good News Budget

"They kept their promises even the ones that we don't like. But over all the budget aimed its tax cuts at the working class, the first budget in twenty years, yes including the Mulroney years, to do so. As I predicted the BQ will back the Tories on the budget. "

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