Deputy Premier and Minister for International and Intergovernmental Relations, Ron Stevens, announced his resignation today. Stevens will be resigning his post as minister as well as his seat in Calgary-Glenmore.
Stevens cited “other career options,” as his reason for his departure,” although there is speculation that Stevens may be appointed a federal court judge by Stephen [...]
May 15, 2009 | Posted in
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In an email sent out to supporters, the NDP listed off the accomplishments Jack Layton and the New Democrats had achieved in the last four weeks, after promising to get down to work and help the middle class.
The NDP cited four accomplishement that included leadership to fix Employment Insurance (EI,) to end credit card gouging, [...]
May 15, 2009 | Posted in
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Former Progressive Conservative Prime Minister, Brian Mulroney, testified in hearings today conducted by Justice Jeffrey Oliphant.
The hearings are focusing around interactions that the former Prime Minister had with German-Canadian business man Karlheinz Schreiber.
When asked to describe the Schreiber that he knew in 1993, Mulroney responded “The Karlheinz Schreiber that I knew in 1993 was not [...]
May 12, 2009 | Posted in
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The man who was once MP in Edmonton Strathcona, the only seat in Alberta that didn’t go tory blue but instead went bright orange (New Democrat) in the last federal election, is giving up on his political ambitions.
Jaffer lost the seat to New Democrat candidate Linda Duncan, an environmental lawyer. Duncan is now the NDP’s [...]
May 7, 2009 | Posted in
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper made a quick surprise stop in Afghanistan today. He addressed troops at Khandahar Airfield, and left quickly after.
Before addressing the troops, the Prime Minister visited the Dahla irrigation dam outside the city of Kandahar
“We did not come here as permanent occupiers, and we do not measure our success by the length [...]
May 7, 2009 | Posted in
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