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Peter MacKay lauds moms for changing diapers, dads for moulding minds in holiday messages
Justice Minister Peter MacKay has raised eyebrows once again over what some consider old-fashioned and patronizing attitudes toward women.
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Canada moving toward American-style inequality, U.S. economist suggests
A prominent U.S. political economist says Canada is moving toward American-style inequality, and believes austerity economics and tax cuts for corporations are making the problem worse.
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Homeless People Read Mean Tweets About Themselves To End Stereotypes
When celebrities read mean tweets about themselves, it's funny. When homeless people do it, it's heartbreaking. In a powerful PSA by Canadian advocacy group Raising the Roof, people who are dealing with homelessness read actual tweets written abou...
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A Canadian Conservative Politician Was Actually a Performance Artist Playing a Decade-Long Prank
A Conservative candidate's sudden resignation marks the latest chapter in an artistic performance that's now spanned over 15 years. On Tuesday, a CBC News investigation revealed that Montreal-area "politician" Chris Lloyd was in fact a performer, whose foray into politics was intended to "mess with" the Tories.
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Journalists Are Banned from Stephen Harper's Events and It’s Stupid Nonsense
Journalists cannot ask Harper any questions.
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Former PM Paul Martin says Canadian economy likely in recession | Video
With the economy posting negative growth in the first four months of the year, some economists say Canada is heading into a recession. But Finance Minister Joe Oliver says the country is still on course to post two per cent GDP growth in 2015.So is Canada entering a recession and, if so, is there anything the government can do about it?
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Pétrolières: l’ONU demande des explications au Canada
Le gouvernement canadien est aussi invité à s'expliquer quant aux restrictions qui auraient été imposées au droit de réunion pacifique.
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Trudeau's support of C-51 has some Liberals seeing orange
Queen’s Park reporter Jane Taber takes an inside look at the week in Ontario politics.
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Almost half of Canadians support Liberal child care plan: poll
The Forum Research poll showed that Quebecers, Canadians aged 55 to 64 and those who earn $60,000 to $80,000 are more likely to support the Liberal plan. The poll also found that 40 per cent of Conservative voters and 39 per cent of NDP voters support the Liberal plan.
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Le Canada gravement à la traîne
Le Canada est l'un des derniers pays du monde à pouvoir protéger de grandes zones naturelles, mais...
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B.C. appetite for pot reform is riding high, says poll
B.C.'s has a strong appetite for marijuana reform with more than 70 per cent of respondents to a new poll urging either legalization or decriminalization.
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Selling Social Democracy: The Third Way in Canada, 1988-2011 (Jared Wesley)
Discusses the NDP's "third way" approach in Canada on not just economics but also on political strategies.
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CCLA Welcomes Concluding Observations for Canada by UN Human Rights Committee
This morning, the UN Human Rights Committee — the independent treaty body that monitors state implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) — released its concluding observations on Canada. Most notably, Bill C-51.
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Canada’s controversial terrorism law criticised by UN human rights group
United Nations committee expresses concern that lack of oversight and safeguarding measures could lead to rights abuses and unlawful deportations. By Jessica Murphy.
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Canada joins failing 'war on terror'
The introduction of stricter homeland security measures do not make citizens safer.
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Why the Harper government flatters Saudi Arabia’s tyrants
Canadian arms sales and geopolitics explain deeply cynical foreign policy stance
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Leaked Trans-Pacific Partnership draft would force Canada to rework copyright, critics say
Canada would have to massively overhaul its Copyright Act just a few years after the last round of painstaking amendments, critics warn, if a secret trade and investment deal the government is negotiating is adopted with the terms outlined in a leaked draft from May that was made public this week. What appears to be a working draft of parts of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership pact, or TPP, was posted online this week by a U.S. non-governmental organization.
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When Canada Learned It Had Spies
The government had constantly denied that Canada was involved in spying or espionage—until an enterprising young Englishman named William Macadam came along. By Graham Templeton.
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Supersized election campaign could backfire on Harper
Desperation move may prove to be prime minister’s long goodbye
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Harper says Canadians don’t want marijuana legalized
With the curtain about to rise on the climactic second act of the Mike Duffy trial, Justin Trudeau promised Tuesday to clean up the scandal-tainted Senate, while Stephen Harper set his sights on neighbourhood drug labs. The Liberal leader vowed to clean up the prime minister’s “mess,” accusing Harper of leading the “most secretive, divisive and hyper-partisan government in Canada’s history.”
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