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The sinking of the Canadian Navy
A maritime nation has let its naval fleet go to seed. Here's how the once-proud Royal Canadian Navy fell into such an embarrassing state of disrepair. By Scott Gilmore with Meagan Campbell.
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Forget Trump, Canada Candidate slays Dragons to Nab Votes
He rides a Canada goose, slays a dragon and fist bumps an alien - and that's just in the first 30 seconds of Wyatt Scott's campaign video for the upcoming Canadian federal election.
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In our politics, telling the truth gets you in trouble
Linda McQuaig, the prominent Toronto NDP candidate whose innocuous and true statement about the oilsands has turned into a controversy, is the latest to be caught in this political vortex. By Seth Klein.
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The Closing of the Canadian Mind
The tenure of Prime Minister Stephen Harper has seen the slow-motion erosion of the country’s reputation for open, responsible government. By Stephen Marche.
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Prime minister using national security to distract from faltering economy, says Grand Chief
Concern that Harper may be ‘desperate enough to deliberately provoke a conflict’ with Aboriginal peoples
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Are Canada’s leaders climate deniers?
Linda McQuaig’s ‘controversial’ statements on climate change simply echo scientific consensus
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Tom Mulcair defends praise for Margaret Thatcher's 'winds of liberty and liberalism'
NDP Leader Tom Mulcair on Wednesday defended flattering comments he made over a decade ago about the conservative policies of former U.K. prime minister Margaret Thatcher, a day after a video of his comments were circulated in Quebec.
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Find which canadian party your views align with using the Vote Compass
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Punishing birdwatching songwriter ensures ‘Harperman’ a place in Canadian folk canon
The spitefulness of the Harper regime, in one anecdote: suspending a folksinger who tracks birds for a living at Environment Canada. Time for us all to lift our voices. By J. Baglow.
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Layton legacy is alive and well
Vote Together campaign aims to unite youth for change
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Trans-Pacific Partnership slammed by Unifor
The Trans-Pacific Partnership would kill Canadian auto jobs says Unifor, the union that represents thousands of autoworkers in this country. The TPP is a proposed agreement between not only the 12 Pacific Rim countries at the table, but others who could join later - countries like China, India or the Philippines. In June, the prime minister called the deal "essential" for Canada.
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TPP could have 'catastrophic effects' on Canada's economy: Unifor president
The president of Canada's largest private sector union says the Trans-Pacific Partnership could have "catastrophic effects" on the nation's economy. Unifor president Jerry Dias was responding to comments made by Conservative Leader Stephen Harper at the Globe and Mail debate on the economy Thursday. In the final segment of the debate, Harper said that Canada is entering the "final stages" of the 12-country trade negotiations...
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Supreme Court rules Canadians have right to doctor-assisted suicide
Canadian adults in grievous, unending pain have a right to end their life with a doctor’s help, the Supreme Court ruled on Friday. The unanimous ruling, by establishing that the “sanctity of life” also includes the “passage into death,” extends constitutional rights into a new realm. The courts have used the 1982 Charter of Rights to establish gay marriage and to strike down a federal abortion law. The new ruling will change the way some Canadians are permitted to die.
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Conservatives stoop to fearmongering again with latest niqab appeal
Why as a feminist I support Zunera Ishaq
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Challenge Harper government’s cruel treatment of refugees this election
Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care urges voters to support parties that will reinstate refugee health coverage
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Vanishing Canada
It’s not just the census. Ottawa’s been destroying research, wiping clean websites and deleting government records. How the attack on information threatens our economy, our reputation and what we know about ourselves. Records deleted, burned, tossed in Dumpsters. A Maclean’s investigation on the crisis in government data.
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Trudeau’s ‘middle-class tax cut’ is a mirage
Two-thirds of Canadians will receive little or no benefit from Liberal tax cut
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A Liberal tipping point in Canada?
For much of this 78-day campaign season, the three parties - the incumbent Conservatives and the left-centre Liberals and New Democratic Party - have effectively been tied in the polls, all at around 30%.
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Canada-Voters Cast Ballots as Election Day Arrives After 78-day Campaign
After a gruelling 78-day campaign that saw the main federal party leaders try to woo voters with contrasting visions for the country's future, election day has finally arrived and polling places are open across the country.
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Canada election: Harper, Mulcair and Trudeau in tight race
Canadians have started voting in fiercely contested parliamentary elections that could give them their first new leader in nearly 10 years.
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