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Wednesday, August 29
Please mark one ...
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 29 Aug 2007 06:37 PM EDT
Elections Canada today published the official list of candidates for the three by-elections to be held in Quebec on Sept. 17. For the record, in the last general election, the Bloc Quebecois won Roberval and Saint-Hyacinthe and the Liberals won Outremont. The Conservatives think they have a decent shot in all three ... more »
Ottawa backs GO Transit
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 29 Aug 2007 02:30 PM EDT
I suspect that the student politicians and student ... more »
Jack goes north
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 29 Aug 2007 01:51 PM EDT
While Garth Turner heads west for a series of town hall meetings, the NDP’s Jack Layton is going north:
Take that, Sudan!
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 29 Aug 2007 01:44 PM EDT
Just out from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade:
Legalize Afghan poppy crop, says Green Party
by
DavidAkin
on Wed 29 Aug 2007 10:06 AM EDT
The Green Party is repeating its call to legalize, license and commercialize Aghanistan’s poppy crop. The call comes on the same day that the independent research group,The Senlis Council, releases recommendations it wants the Canadian government to adopt for a “Poppy for Medicine” program and just days after the latest United ... more »
U.S. lags on network speed, Internet innovation
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DavidAkin
on Wed 29 Aug 2007 08:01 AM EDT
In the U.S. -- and to a degree here in Canada -- there is a growing public policy debate about "network neutrality", the idea that the Internet and data networks generally ought to be open and based on international standards. Open or neutral networks, the thinking goes, allows for ... more »
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