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It sure is scary.

Same with the proposed The defence of religion act

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Tories to cut off funding for women's lobby groups The federal Conservative government says it will no longer fund women's groups that do advocacy, lobbying or general research. The drastic change to the mandate and operation of Status of Women Canada also drops the word "equality" when l...

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Support for the Afghan mission hasn't waned, despite a deadly September in which 10 Canadian soldiers have been killed, Canada's chief of defence staff said Monday at the end of his visit to Afghanistan. "I think they believe that we have a responsibility as the rich and luxurious and caring n...

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The Conservatives are under fire for killing a legal-aid program that has assisted Canadian minority groups in a series of historic court victories over the last three decades. The cancellation of the Court Challenges Program was slammed Wednesday by the country's largest legal organization, opposi...

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I wonder if she had a "few words" for him? Literacy — it's all about reading, writing and getting your story straight. Or so it seemed this week in Ottawa. On Monday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government axed $17.7 million from the human resources department's Adult Learning and Lite...

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I use Ktorrent for movies and Amule for music.

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I think it will come down to Iggy, Rae and Dion as the final 3 and it is anyones guess who will win. I saw a poll and Rae was the favourite, not by much over Iggy. But in these things who knows who will really win, we may all be surprised.

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper pledged again today to rebuild Canada’s military during a speech to thousands attending a rally on Parliament Hill to support Canada’s troops overseas. The subdued colours of official Ottawa were replaced with blazing red shirts, red ties, red hats, red jackets — even ...

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So much for Ethics and cleaning up politics that thug Harper claimed he would do.

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The federal Conservative government is threatening the survival of women’s organizations by delaying funding, the NDP charged today. “By not responding to funding applications, the Conservatives are allowing programs to shut down, one by one,” New Democrat MP Irene Mathyssen said. “What’s next? . ....

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Federal government officials appear to be breaking Canadian law by revealing the identities of those who seek documents under the Access to Information Act, a newspaper reported Wednesday. Revealing the names of people requesting documents under the Act is illegal under the Privacy Act, which is de...

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I do not like Iggy at all. He would be more suited to be in the Conservative party.

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Good.

Harper and company looked like fools today during question period. Emerson actually looked like he had a few.

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Mackay is one big knob.

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Look at the lowlife tactics this thug harper is doing: Tax on lumber deal holdouts The federal government plans to levy a 19 per cent special tax on lumber companies that withhold their co-operation with the newly signed softwood lumber deal with the United States, The Canadian Press has learned. A ...

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The federal Conservatives are cancelling a $1.5 million pledge by the previous Liberal government to help developing countries cut greenhouse emissions under the rules of the Kyoto Protocol. Abandoning the pledge made at a United Nations conference in Montreal last December is another blow to the t...

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Polls suggest Tories stuck The issues of Mideast politics, defence and the environment have combined to hinder the Conservatives in their quest for a majority governmenty, a poll suggests. A Decima poll conducted during the holiday weekend and given to The Canadian Press today that support for the ...

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The Conservative government's made-in-Canada environment plan must include a long-term funding plan for urban transit, Toronto Mayor David Miller urged yesterday. Miller and several mayors from cities across the country met with federal Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon yesterday to press him on t...

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Environment Minister Rona Ambrose's office is mum on why it took four political staffers to tag along with her to a trade conference in Vancouver at a cost of $14,345. Ambrose, three of her aides and an assistant to the department's parliamentary secretary all attended a biennial West Coast confere...

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Liberals to oppose lumber agreement The Liberals are set to vote against the softwood lumber deal, and join the NDP in declaring non-confidence in the Conservative minority government when Parliament resumes. "Nothing has been put on the table that would convince us to support this deal,"...

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Has anyone's local Tory party machine begun to announce candidates for the fall - "just in case"?? Not in my riding yet. I have not heard. I know some Liberal and NDP ones have candidates. The results are sure to put political heat on Harper and his advisers to rethink their iron-fisted a...

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Well I think this is foolish for the Conservatives to do this, especially that according to polls they are still in minority territory and we just had an election in January. Not to mention he is losing ground in Quebec and could lose the seats he gained in PQ over this and other issues. But I guess...

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Homeless aid groups lose federal funding [/quote]Fifteen Winnipeg projects aimed at housing and helping the homeless have taken a big financial hit, as he federal government has decided to pull $4.2-million in funding from homeless programs in Manitoba. Letters went out this week from the Winnipeg ...

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He hates the environment, does not attend Out Games, does not attend Aids conference, may cut funding to Safe Injection site, raises taxes for the poorest wage earners, sells us out on Softwood, won't honour Kelowna accord. So who and what does he like? As it looks to me he hates Natives, working pe...

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Tories bounce back, poll suggests The federal Conservatives recovered from a slide in the polls and regained a sizeable lead over the Liberals nationally, but they trail in Ontario and Quebec, a new public-opinion survey suggests. The Tories had 36 per cent support nationally, while the Liberals we...

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I think it will come down to Dion and Iggy, myself. Rae will finish 3rd, but I won't rule him out either.

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Afghanistan has become a lightning rod for thousands of ordinary Canadians who write or call Stephen Harper, newly released documents show. Records of telephone calls, letters and e-mails to the prime minister in the four months since he took office Feb. 6 suggest the military mission is turning in...

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A new poll suggests Tory support is sliding over voter concern that Canada has become too cosy with the United States on Middle East policy. The latest results by Decima Research, released to The Canadian Press, put the Conservatives and Liberals in a virtual tie nationally. The Tories had 32 per c...

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The federal government has quietly handed senior government officials and the heads of Crown corporations pay raises and increased bonuses, sounding alarm bells from a tax watchdog and the biggest public service union. Government executives and deputy ministers, the highest ranking public servants,...

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has chosen to “support intolerance” by refusing to attend an international gathering of gay athletes, singer k.d. lang said Friday. Lang was critical of her fellow Albertan for failing to support the World Outgames, which is expected to attract up to 13,000 gay, bisexu...

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Canada has made the top 10 on a "world map of happiness,'' which rates 178 countries ranging from Albania to Zimbabwe on their populations' overall sense of well-being. Ranked 10th in the world, Canada scored high on the map's three major measures of happiness -- health, wealth and access to e...

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Conservatives are trying to turn Prime Minister Stephen Harper's principled stand on the Middle East conflict into a money-maker for the party. Using the Lebanese turmoil -- in which hundreds of civilians, including at least nine Canadians, have been killed -- to make a fundraising pitch has drawn ...

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A new poll suggests Stephen Harper's post-election surge in popularity has dissipated and dimmed his chances of turning his minority government into a majority. The prime minister's Conservatives lost ground in the country's two crucial battlegrounds, Ontario and Quebec, according to the Decima pol...

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Canadian smokers may soon have a new alternative to lighting up a cigarette to soothe their need for nicotine -- and it comes in a bottle. Nic Lite, a lemon-flavoured, water-based nicotine drink that contains four milligrams of organic nicotine -- equivalent to the amount of the drug found in two c...

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Online sexual abuse has become a worsening problem in Canada, with a frightening growth in sexually violent images of very young children on illegal pay-for view websites, the RCMP say. RCMP Supt. Earla Kim McColl, who runs Canada's National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre (NCECC), said the ...

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Quite a scandel and a rather unfortunate one at that. I could never understand how players of any professional sport could fix games. I always thought most are well paid and they don't need the money. They should know they will eventually get caught and give their sport and not just themselves a bla...

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Last week, it was "Steve" and "W." But Friday and, for the first time, Prime Minister Stephen Harper meets British Prime Minister Tony Blair, his political idol. And according to a senior aide, Mr. Harper can hardly wait. Everyone, the senior Harper aide said, believes that Mr. ...

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New FIFA anti-racism rulings that took effect in March suggest Italy’s victory on Sunday could be reversed by disqualification What Materazzi said to Zidane to cause the French captain to head-butt Materazzi in reply in the World Cup final may have repercussions that go well beyond Materazzi. On Ma...

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper has stirred the waters among fishermen on the West Coast with a vow to end so-called race-based commercial fisheries in Canada. Harper made the declaration in a letter published in the Calgary Herald on Tuesday. "In the coming months, we will strike a judicial inq...

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In the heat of the federal election campaign last December, Stephen Harper declared that protecting Canada's sovereignty was Ottawa's most important duty. In surprisingly defiant language, Harper pledged that a Conservative government would not allow foreign vessels, including US submarines, to ent...

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Hillier: Canadians still support Afghan mission

Tories defend end to law program benefitting seniors, women,

Harper, wife on different pages

Thousands rally for troops

Tories threat to women's groups: NDP

Privacy laws violated by govt. officials: report

Harper Bullying lumber Companies

Conservatives reverse pollution aid for poor countries

Transit funds needed: T.O. mayor

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Fall Election over Lumber?

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Harper's mailbag is full of complaints about Afghanistan

Conservatives lose ground amid perceived sidling up to U.S.

Tories boosts pay of top bureaucrats

Singer k.d. accuses Harper of supporting intolerance by skip

Canada ranks 10 on 'world happiness map'

Harper's stance on Mideast used for fundraising

Harper slipping where it counts

Nicotine in a bottle on its way to Canada

RCMP see violent trends in online child porn

Harper to meet his British idol

Will Italy be stripped of the World Cup?

Harper vows to end 'racially divided fisheries'

Harper changes tune on Canadian sovereignty