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Blue and Orange Political Map Hinders Canadian Liberals

Vancouver Sun (blog) -
The Liberal Party, still about a year away from having a new full-time leader, has dropped to 18 per cent, below their lowest-ever total in the 2011 election. Atlantic Canada provides some hope for the Grits, but few seats. In Ontario, the province ...

A Tory maverick

Toronto Sun -
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.

Veniez drops lawsuit after Weston apology

Coast Reporter -
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 ...

Tories debate how best to keep middle-class voters

Globe and Mail -
In each election since 2004, more and more of them have abandoned the Liberal Party and switched to the Conservative Party, because they believe that Mr.

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.

What Liberals and RIM shareholders have in common

Globe and Mail -
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.

Veniez drops lawsuit after Weston apology

Whistler Question -
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 ...

Prospects for the NSW State Redistribution

ABC Online (blog) -
On current projections, it appears that a National Party seat will have to be abolished in the west of the state. The result of this is likely to be the same scenario as occurred at the last three state redistributions, the Liberals and Nationals left ...

Today in History - May 25

mysask.com (press release) -
It pledged itself to circulate appropriate literature in every part of the land, to secure a unity of evangelistic effort and to establish a Sunday school wherever there was a population.

Former health minister earns spot on health board

CBC.ca -
(CBC) Former Liberal health minister Mary Schryer has won a seat on one of the province's regional health authority boards in the first RHA elections since the former Liberal government eliminated them in 2008. Schryer will be one of 15 board members ...

Dan Arnold: The world as it might have been in Alberta

National Post -
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 ...

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.

Obama's support for gay marriage an election gamble

CBC.ca -
Most organized religions were reserved at best, while gays and liberal Christians marvelled at the president's move, which distances his Democratic Party campaign significantly from the Republicans and their expected candidate Mitt Romney.

Scott Stinson: Dalton McGuinty's next battleground

National Post -
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 ...

The NDP: The road travelled from 2006 to 2012

rabble.ca (blog) -
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 ...

Who was more secretive: Conservatives or Liberals?

Yahoo! News Canada (blog) -
The CBC's Kady O'Malley disputes some of the Canadian Press' figures and adds that the Library of Parliament information does not reveal how often those meetings went in camera over the protests of the opposition parties. "You simply can't just add up ...

Tories back private member's bill to ban bulk water exports

Canada.com (blog) -
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.

Local election results - live coverage

The Guardian -
Many in the Labour Party have said that they must win London and Glasgow. The Liberal Democrats tend to do better in local elections than their poll rating would suggest. 11.15pm: More from the expectation management battlefront.

A country in Labor

On Line opinion -
At the Commonwealth level, under the Coalition government, Liberal Senator Bill Heffernan, Howard's bovver-boy, made false accusations under parliamentary privilege against High Court Justice Michael Kirby; while the National Party's Deputy Prime ...

Westray remembered: explosion killed 26 NS coal miners in 1992

CBC.ca -
In July 1991, Liberal MLA Bernie Boudreau sent a letter to Nova Scotia Labour Minister Leroy Legere warning that the new Westray coal mine scheduled to open in two months near Stellarton "is potentially one of the most dangerous in the world.
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