tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48515671213579016602024-03-14T02:20:54.377-07:00Canada Newscanadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.comBlogger289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-41330581426596213852011-04-19T22:03:00.000-07:002011-04-19T20:06:08.666-07:00Campaign promises to continue increasing healthcare transfer payments to provincesA campaign promise by all three political parties to continue increasing transfers to the provinces won't be enough to fund health care in the future, provincial finance ministers say.The Conservatives, Liberals and NDP all said they would maintain the "escalator clause," which increases the amount of money the federal government transfers to the provinces by six per cent a year, while canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-87623467893579455862011-04-19T00:01:00.000-07:002011-04-18T22:03:23.643-07:00Election campaign: 'leader-centric,' and leaders focus on 'micro-politics,' say political expertsThe 41st general election appears to be "leader-centric," the political parties are focusing on "micro-politics" to win seats locally, and the parties are having difficulty connecting with voters because "lunch-bucket language" doesn't cut it anymore with today's voters, say political experts."There seems to me to be a change," said University of Regina political science professor David Smith, canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-17034754296970174372011-04-18T13:02:00.000-07:002011-04-18T11:04:54.194-07:00Most voters concerned about AG's leaked report on G8 spending: Forum Research pollPARLIAMENT HILL—The leak of a potentially explosive draft report by Auditor General Sheila Fraser on $45.7-million spent by the feds on G8 summit projects in Industry Minister Tony Clement's riding last year caused concern among more than 70 per cent of voters nationwide, according to a Forum Research poll conducted at the end of last week.But concern was greatest in Ontario, where the G8 canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-3093775749449697462011-04-15T19:02:00.000-07:002011-04-15T17:04:46.417-07:00'You're literally putting your name out there and people can get very passionate': NDP candidate DewarIt's "door-to-door combat" in Ottawa Centre as the incumbent NDP Paul Dewar, who won in the 2008 election with 39.7 per cent of the vote and is considered a media darling, campaigns to get re-elected against the Grit, Tory, and Green candidates in the riding the Parliament Buildings call home."I knocked on about 12,000 doors since before the election started, and now I've been doing between 500 canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-28674462279010979722011-04-14T21:11:00.000-07:002011-04-14T19:13:42.269-07:00Political parties strategically targeting TV ads to specific demographicsAlthough this election campaign has been dubbed the "Twitter election," parties cannot avoid investing the majority of their resources and spending limits to traditional media advertising, says a pollster."We haven't moved to a point where the parties can take ads off TV and put them up on YouTube and that will be enough. Still, a lot of voters, the vast majority of voters will learn about the canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-80226046241104610742011-04-13T23:10:00.000-07:002011-04-13T21:13:21.157-07:00National campaign crucial factor in 80 vulnerable ridings across CanadaThere are 80 vulnerable ridings and although elections are won riding by riding, experts say the national campaign is more important to turning these close ridings than the local one is."I very much feel that way. Local constituency factors, and there's been work by Munroe Eagles from the University of Buffalo suggesting that local constituency factors count for no more than five per cent and canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-34112436666239011552011-02-15T05:49:00.000-08:002011-02-15T03:51:58.140-08:00Mass detention of 300 Tamil migrants cost $18-million, says Canada Border Services AgencyThe detention of more than 300 Tamil migrants who landed on Vancouver Island last summer aboard a rusty Thai cargo ship called the MV Sun Sea has so far cost $18-million, the Canada Border Services Agency says.With 107 of the Tamils still in custody—and only five so far publicly linked to accusations of even indirect links to Tamil Tiger fighters in Sri Lanka—the high cost for the canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-32520887678901903672011-02-14T00:16:00.000-08:002011-02-13T22:19:15.274-08:00Tories raise whopping $17.3-million, parties question 'Republican-style' tacticsThe minority governing Conservatives' staggering lead on the other main parties in financial donations last year and a lingering question about its creation through a merger of the former federal Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties have sparked more comparisons between Conservative tactics and U.S. Republican Party political methods.A senior Conservative Senator has confirmed canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-74144570183782935072011-02-13T02:49:00.000-08:002011-02-13T01:07:34.499-08:00Tories raise whopping $17.3-million, parties question 'Republican-style' tacticsThe minority governing Conservatives' staggering lead on the other main parties in financial donations last year and a lingering question about its creation through a merger of the former federal Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties have sparked more comparisons between Conservative tactics and U.S. Republican Party political methods.A senior Conservative Senator has confirmed canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-44477342809038251512011-02-12T00:16:00.000-08:002011-02-11T22:18:53.225-08:00Tories raise whopping $17.3-million, parties question 'Republican-style' tacticsThe minority governing Conservatives' staggering lead on the other main parties in financial donations last year and a lingering question about its creation through a merger of the former federal Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties have sparked more comparisons between Conservative tactics and U.S. Republican Party political methods.A senior Conservative Senator has confirmed canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-70689577000680196592011-02-11T12:55:00.000-08:002011-02-11T10:57:53.198-08:00Tories raise whopping $17.3-million, parties question 'Republican-style' tacticsThe minority governing Conservatives' staggering lead on the other main parties in financial donations last year and a lingering question about its creation through a merger of the former federal Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties have sparked more comparisons between Conservative tactics and U.S. Republican Party political methods.A senior Conservative Senator has confirmed canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-478050140936047092011-02-09T18:11:00.000-08:002011-02-09T16:14:14.628-08:00Tories raise whopping $17.3-million, parties question 'Republican-style' tacticsThe minority governing Conservatives' staggering lead on the other main parties in financial donations last year and a lingering question about its creation through a merger of the former federal Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties have sparked more comparisons between Conservative tactics and U.S. Republican Party political methods.A senior Conservative Senator has confirmed canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-34208290703977056852011-02-08T20:17:00.000-08:002011-02-08T18:20:12.595-08:00Tories raise whopping $17.3-million, parties question 'Republican-style' tacticsThe minority governing Conservatives' staggering lead on the other main parties in financial donations last year and a lingering question about its creation through a merger of the former federal Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties have sparked more comparisons between Conservative tactics and U.S. Republican Party political methods.A senior Conservative Senator has confirmed canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-40812080331171889342011-02-07T22:12:00.000-08:002011-02-07T20:14:49.603-08:00Tories raise whopping $17.3-million, parties question 'Republican-style' tacticsThe minority governing Conservatives' staggering lead on the other main parties in financial donations last year and a lingering question about its creation through a merger of the former federal Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance parties have sparked more comparisons between Conservative tactics and U.S. Republican Party political methods.A senior Conservative Senator has confirmed canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-81604880058915903632011-02-06T23:15:00.000-08:002011-02-06T21:23:26.144-08:00Ouimet still hasn't responded to Commons committee requestCanada's former public sector integrity commissioner, Christiane Ouimet, still has not responded to repeated requests sent since mid-December for her to appear before the House Public Accounts Committee at its first meeting of the Commons winter session on Feb. 1.The committee's chair, Liberal Joe Volpe (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.) told The Hill Times last week that he'll ask the committee whether canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-25832305712259321792011-02-06T01:19:00.000-08:002011-02-05T23:22:21.361-08:00Ouimet still hasn't responded to Commons committee requestCanada's former public sector integrity commissioner, Christiane Ouimet, still has not responded to repeated requests sent since mid-December for her to appear before the House Public Accounts Committee at its first meeting of the Commons winter session on Feb. 1.The committee's chair, Liberal Joe Volpe (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.) told The Hill Times last week that he'll ask the committee whether canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-812956288440462222011-02-05T02:19:00.000-08:002011-02-05T00:22:00.786-08:00Ouimet still hasn't responded to Commons committee requestCanada's former public sector integrity commissioner, Christiane Ouimet, still has not responded to repeated requests sent since mid-December for her to appear before the House Public Accounts Committee at its first meeting of the Commons winter session on Feb. 1.The committee's chair, Liberal Joe Volpe (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.) told The Hill Times last week that he'll ask the committee whether canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-65872566916197914052011-02-03T17:14:00.000-08:002011-02-03T15:16:41.014-08:00Ouimet still hasn't responded to Commons committee requestCanada's former public sector integrity commissioner, Christiane Ouimet, still has not responded to repeated requests sent since mid-December for her to appear before the House Public Accounts Committee at its first meeting of the Commons winter session on Feb. 1.The committee's chair, Liberal Joe Volpe (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.) told The Hill Times last week that he'll ask the committee whether canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-54810763521444463262011-02-02T19:15:00.000-08:002011-02-02T17:17:58.411-08:00Ouimet still hasn't responded to Commons committee requestCanada's former public sector integrity commissioner, Christiane Ouimet, still has not responded to repeated requests sent since mid-December for her to appear before the House Public Accounts Committee at its first meeting of the Commons winter session on Feb. 1.The committee's chair, Liberal Joe Volpe (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.) told The Hill Times last week that he'll ask the committee whether canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-40022264789821879082011-02-01T19:22:00.000-08:002011-02-01T18:11:31.505-08:00Ouimet still hasn't responded to Commons committee requestCanada's former public sector integrity commissioner, Christiane Ouimet, still has not responded to repeated requests sent since mid-December for her to appear before the House Public Accounts Committee at its first meeting of the Commons winter session on Feb. 1.The committee's chair, Liberal Joe Volpe (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.) told The Hill Times last week that he'll ask the committee whether canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-64792596220407931502011-01-31T21:16:00.000-08:002011-01-31T19:18:23.803-08:00Ouimet still hasn't responded to Commons committee requestCanada's former public sector integrity commissioner, Christiane Ouimet, still has not responded to repeated requests sent since mid-December for her to appear before the House Public Accounts Committee at its first meeting of the Commons winter session on Feb. 1.The committee's chair, Liberal Joe Volpe (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.) told The Hill Times last week that he'll ask the committee whether canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-11406501795915438172011-01-30T22:16:00.000-08:002011-01-30T20:18:42.272-08:00PM Harper should return multi-millions of dollars in per-vote subsidies, says NDPPrime Minister Stephen Harper will campaign to eliminate the multi-million dollars in per-vote subsidies for political parties in the next election because they've "made no effort to go out and raise any money," but the NDP says if the Prime Minister really believes it is wrong, he could have returned the $10-million annually the Conservative Party has received since 2006.But experts say giving canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-56654517690769315182011-01-30T00:09:00.000-08:002011-01-29T22:11:49.923-08:00PM Harper should return multi-millions of dollars in per-vote subsidies, says NDPPrime Minister Stephen Harper will campaign to eliminate the multi-million dollars in per-vote subsidies for political parties in the next election because they've "made no effort to go out and raise any money," but the NDP says if the Prime Minister really believes it is wrong, he could have returned the $10-million annually the Conservative Party has received since 2006.But experts say giving canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-4960303917872699202011-01-29T02:18:00.000-08:002011-01-29T00:20:06.886-08:00PM Harper should return multi-millions of dollars in per-vote subsidies, says NDPPrime Minister Stephen Harper will campaign to eliminate the multi-million dollars in per-vote subsidies for political parties in the next election because they've "made no effort to go out and raise any money," but the NDP says if the Prime Minister really believes it is wrong, he could have returned the $10-million annually the Conservative Party has received since 2006.But experts say giving canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4851567121357901660.post-69820501968233153532011-01-27T16:02:00.000-08:002011-01-27T14:03:54.046-08:00PM Harper should return multi-millions of dollars in per-vote subsidies, says NDPPrime Minister Stephen Harper will campaign to eliminate the multi-million dollars in per-vote subsidies for political parties in the next election because they've "made no effort to go out and raise any money," but the NDP says if the Prime Minister really believes it is wrong, he could have returned the $10-million annually the Conservative Party has received since 2006.But experts say giving canadahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04704902762729186000noreply@blogger.com0