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 Ontario to partially guarantee Nortel pensions
The Ontario government is reassuring former Nortel employees who worked in the province that the first $1,000 of their monthly pension payments will be guaranteed under an emergency pension insurance fund....
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 Layton makes first appearance after cancer announcement
It was his first public appearance since revealing that he's suffering from prostate cancer.
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 Some federal Conservatives now jumpy about prorogation backlash
Public opinion polls, as we all know, go up and down and in the last few years have been more volatile than feathers in the wind, as Giuseppe Verdi put it in the Rigoletto. Still, the last slump of the Conservatives has created some turmoil within Pr...
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 Liberals not ready to defeat Tories in spring
Since closing the popularity gap with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Tories three weeks ago the federal Liberals are stalled in the polls, which party insiders say is dissuading anyone in caucus from gunning for a spring election.
"Canadians don'...
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Flaherty says G7 had 'frank conversations' in Arctic
Finance Minister Jim Flaherty defended his decision to host a summit of the G7 in Iqaluit this weekend, saying the location was an ideal one to foster the kind of close-knit conversations that will be important to the G7 in the future....
Arctic G7 meeting offers directions, but few details
The Arctic meeting of global financial leaders over the weekend was as much about what wasn’t said as what was....
Chavez criticism of Canada 'completely inaccurate,' says Kent
The government of Hugo Chavez has responded to Canadian criticism it is “shrinking democratic space” in Venezuela by saying it will take no lessons from an “ultraright” government that “closed” Parliament to avoid an investigation into th...
Harper 'pulling' for Layton
Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he'll be "pulling" for NDP Leader Jack Layton in his battle with prostate cancer.
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Tanning bed bill not based on reliable science: industry
Tanning salon operators say proposed federal legislation that would warn consumers of the cancer risks of tanning is political grandstanding and they are instead calling on the provinces to help regulate operating standards in the industry.
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Expectations for retirement savings plunge in 2009
It seems as though Canadians have fallen back down to Earth when it comes to expectations for how much they need to save for retirement, according to the latest Annual RBC RRSP Poll released Monday....
Canadians love Valentine's Day: Survey
In these cynical times, professing a love of Valentine's Day has the same effect as making Celine Dion's My Heart Will Go On your ringtone. Unless you're being ironic, it's a one-way ticket to pariahdom....
Bureaucrats could face paying market rates for parking
The Harper government could generate millions in savings by charging public servants market rates to park at federal buildings and some military bases. Or it could simply stop providing parking....
Most female Tory MPs go by Mrs.
Two-thirds of female MPs in the Conservative government have opted to use the traditional honorific Mrs. in the House of Commons instead of the Ms. favoured by most female MPs in other parties....
Tories blocked full release of sensitive Public Works report
Bureaucrat made mad dash to mailroom last July to retrieve document atlast minute under orders from senior aide to Christian Paradis...
Afghanistan veterans on disability now 6,000
More than 6,000 Canadian Forces members and discharged veterans who are receiving physical or psychiatric disability benefits from Veterans Affairs Canada have either served in Afghanistan or have a disability that has been related to their service i...
PMO budget largely stable since 1975
The Prime Minister's Office budget has grown steadily in recent decades, research has revealed, but adjusting for inflation reveals the PMO budgets have remained reasonably constant since the mid 1970s, The Hill Times has learned.
And while the nu...
Winnipeg's homeless hero stabbed
Faron Hall, lovingly known in Winnipeg as a homeless hero, was stabbed in his downtown apartment on Saturday....
Alberta treasurer readies budget scalpel
The Stelmach government will deliver an Alberta budget Tuesday with “lots of cuts,” potentially billions of dollars of additional red ink and a new fiscal reality for a jurisdiction that’s become comfortable with eye-popping spending hikes....
Smitherman is game to campaign
But a senior Liberal strategist says a launch for the mayoralty on Super Bowl Sunday “isn't very smart”...
