Toronto Sun - 6 hours ago He ran for the leadership of the Canadian Alliance in 2000, dropping out when he reported a key financial backer had asked him to support another candidate on the second ballot. |
| Montreal Gazette - Apr 29, 2012 It seems to me there's a very outlaw mentality attached to these policies,” said Danielle Lustgarten, 46, a substitute teacher and mother of three who ran unsuccessfully for the NDP in the 2004 federal election in Pierrefonds-Dollard. |
| Globe and Mail - May 6, 2012 Some Conservatives are asking themselves whether the party is in danger of losing the middle class. Suburban middle-class voters in Ontario are the bedrock of this majority government. |
Coast Reporter - May 25, 2012 Dan Veniez has dropped his defamation suit against John Weston after the Conservative member of Parliament apologized to the former federal Liberal Party candidate for information distributed by the Weston campaign workers just before the 2011 election ... |
| rabble.ca (blog) - May 11, 2012 By James Laxer On election night in January 2006, Jack Layton declared that Canadians had "voted out of hope for change" and expressed the conviction that the NDP caucus, 29 MPs as compared with 19 in 2004, would help place working people and seniors ... |
National Post - Apr 30, 2012 In one election, the party may very well have taken the first step in killing off Canada's natural governing party, positioning the Dippers to one day form government. Although last Monday's Alberta election was a battle between two conservative ... |
| Canada.com (blog) - May 16, 2012 OTTAWA - To ban or not to ban bulk water exports is an issue Canada's three main political parties have been dancing around for years and on Wednesday, the Conservatives announced they'd be supporting a private member's bill that aims to do just that. |
| Opposition parties have accused the Conservatives of using their majority to "shut down" debate by holding parliamentary committee meetings behind closed doors, but figures obtained by The Canadian Press show there have been more secret meetings under ... |
| Jim Wolstenholme, the former chief executive officer of the Miramichi hospital corporation until budget cuts in 2004, and who ran as a Green Party candidate in the 2010 provincial election, failed in his bid to earn a seat on the Horizon board. |
National Post - May 19, 2012 When Canada's own fiscal constraints were raised, he said "the deficit is a pretext used for limiting social benefits. |
| US President Barack Obama's surprise backing of same-sex marriage got mixed reviews around the world Wednesday, but appeared to be doing him no harm in this US election year. Obama surprised the world by saying he now personally supports same-sex ... |
| Toronto Star - May 15, 2012 Hasan had moved to Jordan in 2004, leaving her mathematics studies at the University of Western Ontario to pursue a dream of becoming a pilot. |
Winnipeg Free Press - May 6, 2012 In the spring of 2004, Winnipeg voters handed the reins of Manitoba's largest city to a small-C conservative populist named Sam Katz. |
Whistler Question - May 19, 2012 Dan Veniez has dropped his defamation suit against John Weston after the Conservative Member of Parliament apologized to the former federal Liberal Party candidate for information distributed by the Weston campaign workers just before the 2011 election ... |
| National Post - May 3, 2012 When a party holds a seat through two or three elections, it must be called a “safe” seat. And, for a riding like Kitchener-Waterloo, which has gone to the provincial Progressive Conservatives for five consecutive elections, or since Bob Rae was the ... |
Could a third-party candidate like Gary Johnson, Buddy Roemer or Jill Stein impact the outcome of the presidential election? In 1912, President William Howard Taft faced an unexpected challenge in the Republican primary from his predecessor, ... |
| The Guardian - May 3, 2012 The Conservative Party are currently at a high watermark in terms of seats, defending almost half of those up for election in England. The last time these seats were fought, Labour polled 24 per cent. It was when Gordon Brown was at his most unpopular ... |
Huffington Post Canada (blog) - May 3, 2012 Remember, his Reform Party (and its successors, the Canadian Alliance and the Conservative Party) was a party that was formed specifically to bring about smaller government. |
| National Post - May 8, 2012 The argument for necessity goes as follows: In introducing this omnibus bill, all 400-plus pages of it, the government is merely doing what is necessary, by its lights, to keep the Canadian economy solvent and strong. Just as its March 29 budget was ... |
| Globe and Mail - May 14, 2012 There is some strategic similarity between RIM and the Liberal Party of Canada. The Liberals also once seemed like the dominant force in its marketplace, and squandered their opportunities to expand into new products for new markets. |
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