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• The Cold Shoulder?

  
  JordonCooper.com — Authority: 430
  There is a good article in the Walrus on why Canadians have not warmed up to Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff . Despite his earlier run for the prize, Ignatieff remained an unknown quantity, a stranger in our midst. He was our first deconstructionist politician: he kept repeating that political leadership was about ...
  13 hours ago

• Pay Equity: Did the Ignatieff Liberals Vote Against "a basic human right"?

  
  Devin Johnston — Authority: 414
  Yesterday, Michael Ignatieff stated that pay equity is "a basic human right" and blasted the Conservatives who "[...] very clearly used their 2009 budget to impose their ideological opposition to pay equity for Canadian women." I have to agree with Ignatieff on both counts. Last year, I wrote a research paper for ...
  1 day ago

• Two Thumbs Up for Two Ideas from the Liberal Party

  
  ThePolitic.com — Authority: 426
  Today, the Liberal Party proposed two bills, both of which, in my initial assessment, merit two enthusiastic thumbs up. First, the Liberal Party proposed to return rural mail delivery to its 2005 levels, when there were 55,000 more rural mailboxes in service than there are today. Second, the Liberal Party ...
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• Australia’s climate change coup

  
  Green Wombat — Authority: 115
  In my new Green State column on Grist , I write about the latest political machinations in Australia that derailed carbon cap-and-trade legislation at the 11th hour and sets the stage for a national election fought largely over climate change: As I boarded my flight back to California in Brisbane, Australia, last ...
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• New Conservative Accountabiility report

  
  The non conformer's Canadian Weblog — Authority: 129
  another bunch of thugs and crooks? “  Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government has paid out nearly $7 million to political staffers who have left their jobs over the past two years. The amount of “separation pay” that was doled out at the discretion of cabinet ministers is more than twice the amount ...
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• Fake invoices paid for Gaglianos personal expenses: RCMP

  
  CKA Canadian News — Authority: 166
  The reputation of the Liberal Partys Quebec wing, already damaged by past allegations of financial wrongdoing, has been further wounded by new information about a fake invoice scheme that was used to pay for former minister Alfonso Gaglianos “personal e
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• The great by-elections sideshow

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 537
  On Saturday night , I summed up the Higgins and Bradfield by-elections: The final verdict – the whole thing is probably a bit of a side show. The by-election results did, of course, lead to a particularly risible bit of Newspoll analysis (pace Possum ) about the fabulous favour the Libs had done themselves by ...
  2 days ago

• Noynoy tops new SWS poll

  
  Pinoyweb — Authority: 143
  MANILA, Philippines – Liberal Party standard-bearer Sen. Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has again topped the latest survey of the Social Weather Stations on the preferred presidential candidates of Filipinos in the May 2010 elections. Aquino’s candidacy for the highest position in the land was approved by 47 ...
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• Liberals demand government action on pension reforms

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 148
  Harper government is not doing enough to protect Canadians pensionsLiberal Leader Michael Ignatieff today called on the Harper government to act on pension reforms that would help more Canadians to save for retirement and protect those who have lost pension income through bankruptcy.“The Harper government has done ...
  2 days ago

• Being first

  
  Impolitical — Authority: 572
  This seems to be cropping up as a minor political consideration today, the jockeying between Liberals and NDP over issues and the territorial markings of each party on who is first on the given issue. Note the NDP press release on pension reform where they accuse Liberals of stamping their name on Jack Laytons baby. ...
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• RCMP Accountability REPORT

  
  The non conformer's Canadian Weblog — Authority: 129
       Dziekanski Tasering was ‘premature and inappropriate’: report   Report slams RCMP in airport Taser death. A damning report on the conduct of RCMP and the death of Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver airport was released on Tuesday by the Commission for Public Complaints Against the ...
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• Liberal hot air on climate change

  
  Stephen Taylor - a blog on Canadian politics — Authority: 541
  Michael Ignatieff had the following to say about Stephen Harper in a speech to students at Laval University on the topic of climate change, “Stephen Harper doesn’t understand the environment, either. He’s turned Canada into a veritable saboteur of international climate change negotiations.” — Michael ...
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• In the Liberal Party everything old is new again

  
  North Coast Voices — Authority: 140
  Its official. The Liberal Party is jaw droppingly stupid. Not only has it installed Tony Abbott as its latest leader, hes missed the chance of presenting his shadow ministry as generational change rather than as a return of Howard Government dinosaurs and a reward to his backers in the leadership stoush. The ...
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• Tony Abbott and the politics of denialism

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 537
  Tony Abbott appears to have taken that gospel saying about being “cunning as a serpent” to heart, if not the bit about being “gentle as a dove”. The problem with the media cycle these days for the political obfuscator is that it’s harder to say one thing to one audience and one to another – always one of ...
  3 days ago

• Abbott also destroys tax reform

  
  Peter Martin — Authority: 556
  Tim Colebatch : Some time before Christmas, after a year and a half of seriously heavy work, after considering hundreds of lengthy submissions from some of our best and brightest, the Henry review will deliver its report to Treasurer Wayne Swan, setting out its plan for tax reform in Australia. Right now, I ...
  3 days ago

• Not hot in the DonOLO: Pointy shoes and loud colours

  
  A BCer in Toronto — Authority: 420
  I’m not sure how Jane Taber missed this revelation but, buried deep in Susan Delacourt’s story on the fictional Raesurection in the Star today, she reveals news that should warm the hearts of Liberal partisans from Scarborough all the way to Mississauga, and ensure any future fictional displeasure in the Liberal ...
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• Thank god for the econoblogs!

  
  Corrente — Authority: 624
  Because where else would we get populist linky goodness daily ? The Most Underreported Health Reform Story Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review Aetna Forcing 600,000-Plus To Lose Coverage In Effort To Raise Profits Huffington Post (hat tip reader John D) IRS Tells Single Mom She’s Too Poor, Must Be ...
  3 days ago

• Iggy’s Liberals believe in fairy tales, vow to fight the forces of nature

  
  mooseandsquirrel.ca — Authority: 437
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• Is Ruby Dhalla Behind Coup To Sack Her Boss CG Wonders

  
  Crooked in Canada — Authority: 135
  From the Oxford Dictionary-renew: restore to original state; revive; replace with fresh thing; get, make or give again. Liberal MP Ruby Dhalla says that there wasn’t a discussion over drinks at the Fairmont Chateau Laurier in British Columbia last week about ousting Liberal leader;  that she, Bob Rae, Carolyn ...
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• Sophie gets a promotion

  
  Alpine Opinion — Authority: 132
  Meet the Shadow Minister for Nuclear EnergyIn this exclusive report, I bring our electorate of Indi some really great news. New Liberal leader Tony Abbott has rewarded local MP Sophie Mirabella for her anti-ETS and anti-Turnbull stance by promoting her to the front bench of his new shadow cabinet. Mirabella is to ...
  3 days ago

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