Barry Artiste Op/Ed I seem to recall three years ago a small Quebec town called Herouxville, it's citizens and town councilor suggested the exact same guide for newcomers to Canada. This suggestion made by the town's councilor Andre Drouin on behalf of it's citizens resulted...
Barry Artiste Op.Ed Perhaps the support of the NDP to the Conservatives makes strange bedfellows, but then no stranger than Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff smooching it up with ex NDP Leader Bob Rae in the past,...
The 2008 Canadian Federal Election resulted in the allocation of 143 seats to the Conservative Party, 77 seats to the Liberal Party, 49 seats to the Bloc Quebecois, 37 seats to the NDP and 2 seats to...
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper was sworn in as Canada's 22nd Prime Minister in February 2006. He won an election, which gave him a minority government, after defeating the PM Paul Martin. He won a...
Just over a week ago Michael Ignatieff made four demands in order for him to support the minority Conservative government. This ended up in a meeting between Prime Minister Harper and Michael...
Barry Artiste Op/Ed Canada and Canadians should be "Bursting with Pride" the way they are treating our Countries founding peoples. Again, not to "Flog a Dead Horse" does it make sense that our Governments...
Branch plants of U.S. automakers are seeking Canadian taxpayers to bail them out. However, why should Canadians prop up U.S. automobile companies like GM, that destroyed their own zero-emission EV1 Electric Car, in order to appease Oil Industry interests? But, the Canadians...
opinion by agora | 1 year ago 116 views | 27 recommendations | 1 comment
Stéphane Dion, Jack Layton and Gilles Duceppe reportedly signed the Agreement for a Coalition Government on 1 December 2008, in response to the Stephen Harper government's systematized negligence on taking...
created by agora | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 236 views | 4 recommendations | 9 comments
In the British Guardian newspaper, Dimitry Anastakis and Jeet Heer compared Stephen Harper to former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon. The article titled "The Canadian Nixon" documents a Prime Minister who pursues an ego-driven agenda, bereft of ethics, and that is in...
created by agora | 1 year ago 213 views | 11 recommendations | 14 comments
The federal Conservative Party in the Canadian Federal election that was held on 14 October 2008 won more federal ridings than any other single political party. However, the Conservatives did not win a majority of...
opinion by agora | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 205 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
The campaigning game keeps getting hotter in the Canadian Election, with Prime Minister Stephen Harper announcing today that he wants to open up Employment Insurance benefits to the self-employed. The move...
created by Tina Kells | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 499 views | 1 recommendation | 1 comment
The election race is off and running in Canada and the candidates are contending with a series of new Internet publicity issues. The mudslinging has found its way online in some very interesting, if not...
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Carrying placards and wearing t-shirts with their message, opponents of Bill C-61, the proposed Canadian federal copyright regulations (also known as the Canadian DMCA) attended federal Industry minister Jim...
created by Grant Neufeld | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1488 views | 12 recommendations | 5 comments
I've taken to calling it Executive Overdrive: the urge in BC, Ottawa and elsewhere for the executive branch of government to find ways of secretly doing constitutionally significant things [like the SPP or...
This first instalment of a series of op-ed pieces about the next federal election, which may or may not happen in 2007, takes a closer look at the Conservative Party and Stephen Harper.
A bit over a year ago, then-prime minister Paul Martin was fighting the fight of his...
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