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Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Should Canada be nicer to its prisoners?

National Post -
And there is much evidence, Saunders notes, to suggest that this sort of approach leads to dramatically lower recidivism rates, and a distinct lack of evidence to suggest the punitive approach that Canada is increasingly moving does anything except ...

Blue and Orange Political Map Hinders Canadian Liberals

Vancouver Sun (blog) -
Two months have passed since Thomas Mulcair became the new leader of the federal New Democratic Party (NDP). Canadians have had a chance to listen to the man who has taken over the official opposition status attained by the late Jack Layton one year ...

Justice Shakirullah Jan takes oath as acting CJP

The News International -
The oath-taking ceremony was attended by the judges of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, members and officers of Election Commission of Pakistan, deputy attorney general, senior lawyers and officers of the Law & Justice Commission of Pakistan and Federal ...

Etobicoke Centre election result 'null and void': judge

insideTORONTO.com -
... Conservative MP Ted Opitz's win in the last federal election. Ontario Superior Court Justice Thomas Lederer declared the May 2011 Etobicoke Centre election result "null and void" under the Canada Elections Act in his Friday, May 18, decision.

Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Enough with the greenhouse gas emissions charade

National Post -
Ready, aim at foot, fire “If the government has the courage of its convictions - which it should, given its increasing seat count in every federal election since 2004 - it should be eager to put its policies up against all comers,” Postmedia's ...

Need for a National Strategy on Childcare

mySteinbach.ca (blog) -
Children and families in Canada have a right to access quality, affordable child care services. Yet, only 20% of young children today have access to a regulated space and, in many regions, child care fees are the second highest expense for young ...

Palestinian electoral officials in Gaza

WGME -
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Palestinian election officials from the West Bank have arrived in the Gaza Strip to prepare the way for long-overdue elections, a key step toward repairing a five-year rift between the two territories.

More secret meetings under Grits than Tories, figures show

CBC.ca -
But MPs on the public accounts committee never got to finish their work because the Grits used their majority to shut down hearings weeks before Canadians went to the polls. The Liberals lost their majority in the federal election of June 2004.

MP apologizes to election opponent

North Shore News -
"I know of no basis for a suggestion that you acted unethically, dishonestly or unlawfully in your work with Skeena Cellulose Inc." Veniez filed a notice of civil claim for defamation on April 29, 2011, three days before the federal election, ...

Today in History - May 27

mysask.com (press release) -
In 1938, the federal government nationalized the Bank of Canada only three years after it opened for business. In 1941, the British sank the German battleship "Bismarck" off the coast of France, with a loss of 2300 lives.

UN envoy full of beans on food file

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National Post -
Statistics Canada says the number of households in Canada experiencing food insecurity has fallen to 7.7% in 2008 from 9.2% in 2004, when the question was first asked. The second misconception is that the poor are getting poorer.

Politician's wild journey brings him back to Ottawa Marathon

Ottawa Citizen -
In 2003 and 2004, the former Canadian junior track and field team member represented Canada at the world mountain running championships, a punishing and unfulfilling (no medals, all experience) test that would serve him well in his future long-distance ...

Den Tandt: The omnibus bill is good policy, bad politics and lousy marketing

Montreal Gazette -
If the government has the courage of its convictions - which it should, given its increasing seat count in every federal election since 2004 - it should be eager to put its policies up against all comers, in particular the New Democrats, whose ...

A Quebecker convert

Jerusalem Post -
The former Bloc Québécois parliamentarian who believes Quebeckers have a right to split form Canada and create a sovereign state of their own chose to convert to Judaism in 2004 after a long, complex spiritual process. This process began when he fell ...

Greek stocks soar on gains by pro-bailout party

WGME -
The rebound comes on hopes that a pro-bailout party will win next month's crucial national elections. If that happens, Greece could avoid a rift with international creditors, and the country could stay within the euro currency union.

Obama says Vietnam veterans too often 'denigrated'

WGME -
In this election year, Obama said the nation must remain committed to providing for the families of fallen soldiers and help returning service members seeking a job, higher education or health care benefits.

Veniez drops lawsuit after Weston apology

Whistler Question -
Dan Veniez, picutred, has dropped his defamation suit against Sea to Sky MP John Weston stemming from the 2011 federal election. Dan Veniez has dropped his defamation suit against John Weston after the Conservative Member of Parliament apologized to ...

Michael Den Tandt: Conservative omnibus bill is sensible reforms wrapped in a ...

National Post -
If the government has the courage of its convictions - which it should, given its increasing seat count in every federal election since 2004 - it should be eager to put its policies up against all comers, in particular the New Democrats, whose ...

Westray remembered: explosion killed 26 NS coal miners in 1992

CBC.ca -
Ramsey Hart, a co-ordinator with Mining Watch Canada, says Westray's legacy can be measured in the application of the so-called Westray Act, a federal law enacted in 2004 that provided new rules for attributing criminal liability to corporations and ...

Chris Selley: The Conservatives send in the clowns

National Post -
The federal Conservatives' dark-arts bureau recently unveiled its latest masterpiece: Mulcairsndp.ca. Featuring graphics vaguely reminiscent of a horror movie, the website ominously invites you to “get to know [Thomas] Mulcair's NDP shadow cabinet.
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