Jack Layton: NDP Leader Dies at 61

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...

Jack Layton: NDP Leader Steps Down Due to Cancer

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...

Is Jack Layton Dreaming in Technicolour ?

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...

Canada Elects Another Dictatorship For Four Years

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...

Jack Layton Makes His Final Appearances Before Election

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,...

Layton slams massage parlour report as 'smears'

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...

The Canadian Way: Passively Paying More At The Pump

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...

Harmonised Sales Tax (HST): BC's Welfare System For Big Business

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,...

NDP Leader announces prostrate cancer diagnosis

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...

Alberta Look Out - Here Comes the Wild Rose Alliance

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...

Amy Goodman, APR, detained at Canadian Border

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...

NDP Surges ahead in Polls- Ipsos Poll suggests

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%,...

Conservatives could win Majority in Canada -EKOS Poll suggests

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 Harper to call 4 by-elections today

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...

Harpers EI reform would be effective immediately

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...

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