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from Parliament Hill reporter David Akin
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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 »

View Article  Ottawa backs GO Transit

Mike WallaceThe Conservative MP for Burlington is a rookie named Mike Wallace. Wallace (left) and I were both at the University of Guelph together. He was a student politician and I was a student journalist (and a rather unsuccessful student politician).

I suspect that the student politicians and student ...   more »

View Article  Jack goes north

While Garth Turner heads west for a series of town hall meetings, the NDP’s Jack Layton is going north:

LAYTON LEADS DELEGATION TO THE CANADIAN ARCTIC

Meetings with Premiers, Mayors and community leaders planned

OTTAWA – NDP Leader Jack Layton departs this morning for a four-day tour to meet ...   more »

View Article  Take that, Sudan!

Just out from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade:

CANADA EXPELS SUDANESE DIPLOMAT
The Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, today announced that Canada has decided to expel a diplomat from the Embassy of Sudan in Ottawa in response to the Government of Sudan’s unwarranted expulsion of ...   more »

View Article  Legalize Afghan poppy crop, says Green Party

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 »

View Article  U.S. lags on network speed, Internet innovation
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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