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Harper dismisses Liberal call for EI changes
Stephen Harper dismissed Monday opposition demands for changes to employment insurance, setting the Prime Minister on a collision course that could lead to a summer election. Rising for the first...
Canada 'well positioned' if pandemic alert level raised: health officer
Canadians shouldn't panic about swine flu if the World Health Organization raises its pandemic alert level to the highest level, the country's chief public health officer said Monday "It's...
Flaherty pushed on EI by Tory MPP - his wife
The Harper government is coming under more pressure to fix federal employment insurance from an unexpected quarter - MPP Christine Elliott, who happens to be married to federal Finance Minister Jim...
Hillier speaks at chamber luncheon
General Rick Hillier will provide the keynote address, Leadership in Challenging Times, at the Greater Charlottetown Area Chamber of Commerce president's annual luncheon on Friday, May 8, at noon at...
Suicide & Airbus intrigue
A day or two after Bruce Verchere shot himself in the head in his Montreal home, Frank Moores called Karlheinz Schreiber. "Verchere killed himself yesterday," Mr. Moores told Mr....
Sitting Tories to be automatically renominated
The governing Conservative Party has moved to shield its 143 sitting MPs from grassroots challenges to their right to run for the Tories next election. This means incumbents will be automatically...
Phantom commission should eventually become reality: Tories
A spokesman for the Conservative government says three civil servants are still busily preparing the way for the eventual creation of a blue-ribbon panel -- three years after the phantom commission...
Canadian army faces 'shortage of leadership'
Canada's army is facing a "leadership deficit" because of high attrition rates and the growing demands of the Afghanistan mission for senior officers, sergeants and warrant officers, warns the...
New Caisse boss defends Quebec roots
Michael Sabia evoked his late grandfather, an Italian immigrant who arrived penniless in Montreal almost a century ago, to underscore his Quebec roots and attachment to French Canada in his first...
Signs emerging of housing market recovery: Scotiabank
Canada's housing market is showing signs of getting out of its "winter hibernation" although conditions still remain tough, according to a new report from Scotiabank. While average house price...
Nova Scotia's minority Tory government falls
Opposition MLAs voted down a government bill Monday to change the province's finance rules, prompting the fall of the minority Tory government. It means Nova Scotians will be heading to the polls...
L. MARTIN: Iggy Captain Canada?
Successful leadership isn't complicated. It's about making people feel good about their prospects and their country. Think of John Diefenbaker's visionary campaign of 1958 and Trudeaumania in...
MACPHERSON: Can Canadians handle the truth?
Talk about the audacity of hope. The newly crowned leader of the federal Liberal Party seems to be hoping that we can handle the truth in politics, despite the considerable body of evidence that we'd...
MCQUAIG: A peace plank for Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff has a lot going for him these days – a post-convention glow, a pliant party, a populace increasingly willing to dump the governing Conservatives. His only deficiency is the one...
KW RECORD: Ignatieff should avoid the e-word
We have only three words for the federal Liberals' newly anointed leader as he threatens to force a June election. Don't do it. It's not that we object to Michael Ignatieff coming out of the...
SUN: Employment insurance fails the jobless
Canada's Employment Insurance program is failing laid-off workers in the most brutal recession since the Great Depression. Federal Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff is right to demand...
WESTON: U.S. irritating?
Contrary to any appearance that Canada-U. S. relations have become a bilateral love-in under Barack Obama, recently departed American ambassador David Wilkins warns that Capitol Hill is alive with...
Ruby Dhalla's nanny trouble
Fast-rising Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla has become entangled in the nanny trap, with allegations two nannies hired to care for her mother were illegally employed and then mistreated. The nannies also...
HEBERT: Election timing a high-stakes call for Ignatieff
Michael Ignatieff emerged from a seamless party convention this weekend with his foot slightly off the election brake. A day after being officially confirmed as leader by his party, he used his...
YAFFE: Ignatieff wastes no time preparing a challenge for Harper government
Freshly acclaimed leader Michael Ignatieff wound up a weekend convention in Vancouver by announcing that Liberals will have their campaign platform in place by June. In contrast to the tentative...
SOLBERG: Canucks Top Grits
What an exciting weekend for the people of British Columbia. At long last they were freed from the pure mad joy that comes from cheering for their beloved Canucks in their run for the Stanley...
DAILY NEWS: Ignatieff must show us more than rhetoric
We need more from Michael Ignatieff. During the weekend, his place as the new leader of the Liberal Party of Canada was made official in Vancouver. It's not because Ignatieff is Canada's answer...
GLOBE & MAIL: Minority Parliament reconfigured
What a difference a few months can make. It was only in December that the federal Liberals were plunged into a leadership crisis induced partly by a strategic alliance with the Bloc Québécois and the...
COYLE: 10 years on, McGuinty hits stride
What a sweet little anniversary gift Premier Dalton McGuinty got last week to remind him of the difference a decade makes. Ten years ago tomorrow, McGuinty began his first election campaign as...
TRAVERS: Election chatter: Don't go there
Naive and churlish as it is to mention it, something is missing from all this sudden election chatter. Forgotten or forgiven is that the last, wholly unnecessary, entirely self-serving campaign was...
Swine Flu Hospitalizes Alta. Girl
Canada's first severe case of swine flu was recorded Monday when a young Edmonton-area girl was taken to hospital, Alberta officials said, as other provinces reported a rise in infections. The...
United opposition parties press for EI reforms
Opposition parties were united on Monday in their call for changes to the employment insurance system, with the Liberals demanding reforms before Parliament's summer break. The issue dominated...
Harper to fight with EU over climate change
Prime Minister Stephen Harper appears set to clash with European Union leaders over Canada's climate change efforts at an annual summit, the Toronto Star has learned. A draft version of the...
EU passes ban on seal products
The European Parliament has passed a bill that will impose an import ban on seal products, a move meant to force an end to Canada's annual seal hunt, which is the world's largest. The bill --...
Balsillie wants to move NHL's Coyotes to Ontario
Canadian billionaire technology magnate Jim Balsillie is continuing his pursuit of an NHL team, offering to buy the financially ailing Phoenix Coyotes if he can move the team to Southern...
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