NDP Leader Jack Layton Dies of Cancer at 61 Jack Layton, who led the National Democratic Party (NDP) to opposition status in Canada's last election, has died at age 61. Layton had been diagnosed with prostate cancer...
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Jack Layton Diagnosed with 'NewCancer' Jack Layton is stepping down as leader of Canada's New Democratic Party (NDP). Leyton has been once more diagnosed with cancer. Jack Layton has already been battling prostate...
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New Democratic Leader's Jack Layton's Election Platform included as the first priority to "Strengthen Pensions and Income Security. The newly elected Official Opposition Leader has called for unions, labour...
Reform Alliance receives absolute power, but where are the reforms?
Conservative Party swept to a majority government yesterday in spite of Quebecers that voted against it as a block and...
It was standing room only at Beaches-East York NDP candidate Matthew Kellway's Campaign Office last night as a crowd of close to 200 piled onto the Danforth Ave sidewalk at Roseheath Ave in Toronto's East End,...
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This story is from the CBC News NDP Leader Jack Layton blasted a Sun TV News media report Friday citing an unnamed source that he was interviewed by police in a suspected Toronto bawdyhouse in 1996, calling it a "smear campaign." "It's...
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By Jim Stanford, Globe and Mail
"In the Middle East, fury over the rising cost of energy and other essentials sparked the overthrow of tyrants. In China, desperate truckers held spontaneous strikes to protest...
Gone are the days, it seems, when government would take from the privileged to give to the underprivileged. As evidenced by the Bank Bailout in the U.S., and BC’s (and Ontario’s) Harmonised Sales Tax,...
In an email to his constituants and to members of the New Democratic Party, leader Jack Layton has announced that he has been diagnosed with treatable prostate cancer. In the email distributed at about 1pm...
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The Conservative Party in Alberta has been in power since 1971. Some of the noteworthy leaders were Peter Lougheed, Don Ghetty and Ralph Klein, who retired recently to make way for Ed Stelmach. The...
Is there oversensitivity about bad coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics, or was this just an overzealous border guard? It certainly feeds the perception that free speech has gone in the tank when it...
Over the past week, an IPSOS Reid poll suggests that, the New Democratic Party has risen by 3% in popularity. They now have 19% approval rating up from16%. The Conservative Party slipped by 3% to 37%,...
An EKOS poll released this morning suggests the Prime Minister Harper's Conservatives could win a majority if an election was called today. The Conservatives, which were in a dead heat with the Liberal Party in...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative Government survived a non-confidence motion last week. This was made possible by the NDP abstaining from the vote. Harper is now set to call 4 by-elections...
Michael Ignatieff, Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, has vowed that his party will no longer prop up the minority Conservative Government once Parliament resumes later this month. The Liberals are not in a...