@ August 30, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Noah, His Ark, And Premier Danny Williams
By Myles Higgins
Recently Newfoundland and Labrador Premier, Danny Williams, announced plans to encourage economic and business growth in the province through reduction of government red tape by 25% over the next 3 years.
In light of this, I thought it might be interesting for everyone to read the following story [...]
@ August 29, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Illegal Dumping By Ships Kill 300,000 Seabirds Per Year Off Newfoundland
A $70,000 fine levied against the Dutch container ship MV Project Europa on Friday for illegally discharging an oily substance into Canadian waters in August 2003 could have been much higher if the ship had been convicted under tougher new environmental legislation passed
last May (Bill [...]
@ August 26, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Ottawa Asserts Sovereignty Over The Arctic, Forgets Newfoundland and Labrador
By Myles Higgins
Two Canadian navel vessels, the HMCS Shawinigan and Glace Bay are currently heading into Eastern Artic waters and will be joined shortly by a third vessel, the frigate HMCS Fredericton in what can only be described as an attempt by the Canadian government to [...]
@ August 25, 2005 # No Comment Yet
The Idea Is To Give Those Yankees A Taste Of Their Own Medicine
by Todd Hirsch
Other than bad calls in hockey or the suggestion of a $5 coin, Canadians very rarely get too angry about much. But the latest nose-thumbing from the US over trade in softwood lumber is generating some anger in this country that [...]
@ August 24, 2005 # No Comment Yet
The Vicious Words Of A Vicious Man
By John Chuckman
America’s fundamentalist carnival includes many fascinating acts. Pay your money, and you can watch preachers weeping and screaming, dismissing whole segments of humanity as evil, threatening murder, shaking down congregations for extra donations to named-after-themselves projects, or hitting people in the head to heal cancer. You will [...]
@ August 24, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Canadians Voting Against Their Own Best Interests
By Myles Higgins
How often do any of us take the time to sit down and really think about how we plan to vote in a public election? How many of us actually weigh the pros and cons of our choices, look at the broad view rather than the immediate [...]
@ August 23, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Is the Canadian Government Succumbing to the Laws of Another Nation?
By Catherine Whelan Costen
The Globe and Mail report by Bill Curry on Aug.19,2005 states, “The federal government will introduce legislation this fall that would give police and national security agencies new powers to eavesdrop on cellphone calls and monitor the Internet activities of Canadians, Justice [...]
@ August 23, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Canadian Action Party Takes Stand Against Proposed New Police Powers
Connie Fogal, Leader of CAP, says “‘NO’ to an impending federal law to give police and national security agencies new powers to eavesdrop on cellphone calls and monitor the Internet activities of Canadians”
“This law is another destruction of Canadian freedom,”insists Fogal. “It moves Canada even further [...]
@ August 23, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Canadians Say Paul Martin Should Be More Transparent, Accountable and Honest
The latest national survey by SES Research shows that a
plurality of Canadians with an opinion want Prime Minister Paul
Martin to be more transparent/accountable/honest (15.5%). When
Canadians were asked what they would change about Stephen Harper, the
number one formed opinion was that everything should be changed
(8.7%). [...]
@ August 22, 2005 # No Comment Yet
Undecided Voters And Non-Voters In Canada Hold The Political Balance
As the minority governing federal Liberal Party caucus starts their national summer meeting Monday in Regina it would appear that the national political landscape has stabilized over the last few months. According to the latest Ipsos Reid national survey, provided exclusively to CanWest/Global, Paul Martin and [...]