May 24th

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  MPconHélène Campbell to make first public appearance today - Toronto Star
  The noon press conference comes one day after Campbell was presented with the Diamond Jubilee Medal by Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his wife, Laureen. “This is for recognition of your tremendous work raising awareness of the importance of ... read more
  3 hours ago | thestar.com
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  MPgreConservatives Steady, NDP Gains at the Expense of Liberals in Canada - Angus Reid Public Opinion
  One third of Canadians approve of the way interim Liberal Party leader Bob Rae (34%) and Green Party leader Elizabeth May (also 34%) are performing their duties. While the numbers for Harper and Mulcair are very similar, it is their regional popularity ...and more » read more
  Also in this article:Bob Rae
  3 hours ago | angus-reid.com
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  MPconThe Nanos Number: Matching up priorities - CBC.ca
  Are the stated priorities of Stephen Harper's government in line with Canadians' priorities? Nanos Research conducted a survey to test support for the long-term priorities set out by the prime minister after his majority win last year and then asked ... read more
  5 hours ago | cbc.ca
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  MPconShame is not Harper's - London Free Press
  The portrait she painted of Stephen Harper that hangs in the Kingston Public Library is a joke. We know he did not pose for it. Since it was shown on CNN Friday evening, once again it makes me feel embarrassed to be a Canadian. read more
  5 hours ago | lfpress.com
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  MPndpClement slams Mulcair over oil sands comments - Financial Post
  ... NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair as “reckless” and “irresponsible.” Speaking Wednesday to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Clement said the conclusion of Muclair's musings “would undoubtedly cripple an important and growing sector of Canada's economy. read more
  5 hours ago | business.financialpost.com
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  MPconCanada Without Poverty asks PM to clarify who is responsible for poverty file - National Union of Public and General Employees
  Canadians everywhere deserve better answers." - James Clancy, NUPGE National President. Ottawa (24 May 2012) - In a recent letter to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, the advocacy group, Canada Without Poverty (CWP), asked the simple question: Who is in ...and more » read more
  5 hours ago | nupge.ca
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  MPconAtleo launching Assembly of First Nations re-election bid - CBC.ca
  (Sean Kilpatrick/Canadian Press) He agreed to a joint action plan with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, setting up a task force that produced recommendations on education, and also led to a summit with chiefs, Harper and cabinet ministers. read more
  5 hours ago | cbc.ca
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  MPconHarper's Labor Hardline No Boon for Business - BusinessWeek
  By Theophilos Argitis and Natalie Doss on May 24, 2012 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper's hardline approach to labor disputes may help bring a quick end to a strike at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. (CP) It may also keep the company from cutting ... read more
  8 hours ago | businessweek.com

May 23rd

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  MPconHarper names Prince Charles honorary RCMP commissioner - Globe and Mail
  Prince Charles was named honorary commissioner of the RCMP Wednesday night, during the final public event of his three-day visit to Canada. Prime Minister Stephen Harper made the announcement after a performance by the Regina Symphony Orchestra at the ... read more
  14 hours ago | theglobeandmail.com
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  MPndpOilsands are an opportunity: Hudak - Toronto Sun
  Premier Dalton McGuinty and federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair have blamed Alberta energy for driving up the Canadian dollars and killing manufacturing jobs in Ontario. McGuinty later distanced himself from those remarks, but Mulcair continues to ...and more » read more
  18 hours ago | torontosun.com
  • MPP Tim Hudak@SunNewsNetwork "Oil Sands an Opportunity: Hudak" http://t.co/SLkDK2fG
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  MPndpTony Clement slams Thomas Mulcair for 'reckless' oil sands comments - National Post
  ... NDP leader Thomas Mulcair as “reckless” and “irresponsible.” Speaking Wednesday to the Calgary Chamber of Commerce, Clement said the conclusion of Mulcair's musings “would undoubtedly cripple an important and growing sector of Canada's economy. read more
  Also in this article:Tony Clement
  Wed 10:52 am | news.nationalpost.com
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  MPconCP Rail: Canada Labour Minister Raitt Poised to Order End to CP Rail Strike - Toronto Star
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government has not shied from using back-to-work legislation to halt work stoppages it sees as detrimental to the economy or the public. The Conservatives have done so with Air Canada and Canada Post. read more
  Wed 8:03 am | thestar.com
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  MPndpYedlin: Will oil become the 'Canadian disease'? - Calgary Herald
  Judging from the remarks of Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, and more recently federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair, there has already been some uncomfortable movement along those fault lines. The challenge, says Rubin, is for the federal government to ...and more » read more
  Wed 7:01 am | calgaryherald.com
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  MPndpLorrie Goldstein: NDP green plan bad news - Canada Free Press
  Thomas Mulcair's so-called “solution” to the “problem” of the oil sands artificially inflating our dollar and gutting Canada's manufacturing sector is to take billions of dollars more out of the pockets of ordinary Canadians. That's because the federal ... read more
  Wed 5:37 am | canadafreepress.com
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  MPndpMulcair's opportunism sinks debate - London Free Press
  By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN, QMI Agency How will we ever seriously address the economic challenges facing Canada if we can't talk honestly about them? That's the major problem with federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair's claim oilsands' petro-dollars are ... read more
  Wed 5:23 am | lfpress.com
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  MPconThe Queen City readies for royalty as Prince Charles, Camilla visit - Ottawa Citizen
  Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall and Lauren Harper attend the 1812 Commemorative Military Muster hosted by the Government of Canada at Fort York Armoury, as part of the Royal visit to ... read more
  Wed 4:59 am | ottawacitizen.com
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  MPconReport shows Canadians want Ottawa to lead, fix health care - Regina Leader-Post
  By Mark Kennedy, Postmedia News May 23, 2012 Stephen Harper, seen here at the NATO summit in Chicago, Ill., Monday, may be facing a new challenge in light of a new report that says Canadians want his government to take the lead in fixing the health ... read more
  Wed 12:47 am | leaderpost.com

May 22nd

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  MPndpThomson: Ahhh - a lovely day at the academic spa - Calgary Herald
  ... and those who think the oilsands the pinnacle of all that is good, a war that has been heating up lately with an anti-oilsands attack from federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair followed by counter-strikes from hotunder-the-collar western politicians.and more » read more
  Tue 11:33 pm | calgaryherald.com
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  MPgreChina's Stake in Canada's Oil Sands a National Security Threat, Says May - The Epoch Times
  Green Party leader Elizabeth May says China's large stake in Alberta oil is putting Canadian national security at risk. (Teh Eng Koon/AFP/Getty Images) As foreign ownership of the Alberta oil sands increases, the leader of the federal Green Party warns ...and more » read more
  Tue 9:57 pm | theepochtimes.com
  • Victor LauNational security risk, says @ElizabethMay NATIONAL http://t.co/32MrTDo3 #cdnpoli
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  MPlibBob Rae's next steps - Straight Goods
  The NDP is entrenching itself as Canada's number two party. Is the speculation correct? Does it make any sense? Will Rae actually run for the Liberal leadership? Or will he decide, after 34 years in federal and provincial politics, that it is time to ... read more
  Tue 9:04 pm | straightgoods.ca
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  MPconNude Harper painting sells for $5000 - CANOE
  The nude painting of Prime Minister Stephen Harper by Kingston artist Maggie Sutherland sold for its asking price on the weekend. The painting, Emperor Haute Couture, depicted a naked Harper reclining on a chaise lounge. Behind him is a row of men, ... read more
  Tue 3:16 pm | cnews.canoe.ca
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  MPlibWalkom: Once lauded as noble, Afghan war now a political orphan - Toronto Star
  Nor is it simply a tactic that aspiring middle powers like Canada use to burnish their foreign policy credentials. Clausewitz was wrong. War is not just diplomacy by other means. It is something far more dangerous and should be used sparingly. read more
  Tue 2:53 pm | thestar.com
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  MPndpThomas Mulcair does a disservice to the West - Montreal Gazette
  Thomas Mulcair is right about one thing – we need a national conversation about energy and the environment. He's wrong on the rest of it, beginning with his claim that Canada suffers from Dutch disease, with an overvalued currency driven by the price ... read more
  Tue 2:41 pm | montrealgazette.com
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  MPndpStephen Harper is right to pull Canadian troops, but not aid, from Afghanistan - Toronto Star
  For Canada, it's finally over. That's the message Prime Minister Stephen Harper took to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in Chicago, where Afghanistan was the chief headache. To his credit, he didn't mince words.and more » read more
  Also in this article:Stephen Harper
  Tue 2:24 pm | thestar.com
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  MPgreBC killer whale expert out of work as feds cut ocean-pollution monitoring ... - Vancouver Sun
  Green Party leader Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, said it's shocking to lose all the toxin-related research going on at the Institute for Ocean Sciences and across Canada, especially when the Conservative government is ``blindly and ... read more
  Tue 1:21 pm | vancouversun.com
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  MPndpChris Selley's Full Pundit: The 'divisive demagoguery' of Thomas Mulcair - National Post
  That actually made us chuckle: Surely the public face of Canadian politics, for the past decade or so at least, has been incompatible with this description. But Murphy's right, in a way: The hooting is mostly for show; behind the scenes, things tend to ...and more » read more
  Tue 9:46 am | fullcomment.nationalpost.com
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  MPndpThomson: Ahhh - a lovely day at the academic spa - Calgary Herald
  ... and those who think the oilsands the pinnacle of all that is good, a war that has been heating up lately with an anti-oilsands attack from federal NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair followed by counter-strikes from hotunder-the-collar western politicians.and more » read more
  Tue 7:30 am | calgaryherald.com
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  MPndpConrad Black strikes back at Thomas Mulcair for allegations that Tories helped ... - National Post
  Lord Black said despite Mulcair's “demagogic rabblerousing” in the House of Commons he never contacted the Harper government to help him return to Canada. “I deliberately had absolutely no contact direct or indirect with anyone,” Lord Black told Peter ... read more
  Also in this article:Bob Rae
  Tue 7:02 am | news.nationalpost.com
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  MPconTalking the world into taking the wrong direction - rabble.ca
  By Duncan Cameron Attending last week's G8 summit hosted by American President Barrack Obama, Prime Minister Stephen Harper characterized the Canadian economy this way: "Thanks to strong fundamentals, Canada's economy is performing exceptionally well ...and more » read more
  Tue 6:30 am | rabble.ca
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  MPndpThank Mulcair for vital debate - Edmonton Journal
  Thank you, Thomas Mulcair. By questioning the economic and environmental impact of Alberta's oilsands, the federal NDP leader has, hopefully, initiated a longoverdue national debate on how best to develop this tremendous provincial and national ... read more
  Tue 6:08 am | edmontonjournal.com
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  MPconThe nakedness of politics posing as art - Canada Free Press
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper in all the glory of his 'artistic' birthday suit greeted the Internet world early this morning before being replanted down copy on the cover of The Blaze. Emperor Haute Couture, with its graphic male plumbing reached the ... read more
  Tue 6:03 am | canadafreepress.com
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  MPndpMulcair not wrong to share his views - Edmonton Journal
  Let us be clear at the outset: the following is not a defence of Thomas Mulcair's recent arguments about the oilsands and the so-called "Dutch disease" of highpriced resources. The new federal NDP leader may be an effective short-term retail politician ... read more
  Also in this article:Stephen Harper
  Tue 5:44 am | edmontonjournal.com
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  MPndpThomas Mulcair, mostly undaunted - Macleans.ca
  ... and West Block, Thomas Mulcair expressed regret for his “messengers” remark about the Western premiers, but otherwise dug in. … this is a fight that we've been looking for. We see this as a defining element of the next election campaign in Canada. read more
  Tue 5:02 am | www2.macleans.ca
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  MPconOlympic marketers borrow page from politicians - TheChronicleHerald.ca
  Marketing strategies that used to be a hallmark of the Stephen Harper government — like direct outreach to the ethnic media and scripted news conferences backed by lavish photo ops — are quickly becoming a mainstay of the Canadian Olympic Committee. read more
  Tue 2:02 am | thechronicleherald.ca
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  MPconHarper confirms Afghan military pullout for 2014 - Canada.com
  Prime Minister Stephen Harper joined Canada on Monday to the growing list of war-weary nations ready to move on from Afghanistan by announcing that all Canadian soldiers will be out of the troubled country by the end of March 2014. read more
  Tue 1:22 am | canada.com
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  MPgreOttawa axes ocean pollution monitoring program - Vancouver Sun
  Green party leader Elizabeth May, MP for Saanich-Gulf Islands, said it's shocking to lose all the toxin-related research going on at the Institute for Ocean Sciences and across Canada, especially when the Conservative government is "blindly and ... read more
  Tue 12:56 am | vancouversun.com

May 21st

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  MPlibWhither will Rae decide to go? - Guelph Mercury
  With the House of Commons enjoying another extended break, nine days to celebrate Victoria Day, this is a quiet time to ponder a question that perplexes friends and colleagues: What is next for Bob Rae? Rae has been filling in as federal Liberal leader ... read more
  Mon 9:13 pm | guelphmercury.com
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  MPndpConrad Black blasts Mulcair over British criminal 'cheap shot' - Globe and Mail
  Lord Black, who gave up his Canadian citizenship years ago to obtain a British peerage, became a target for NDP Leader Thomas Mulcair after he secured a one-year temporary-resident permit from Ottawa even while still residing in a Florida jail. read more
  Mon 6:22 pm | theglobeandmail.com
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  MPlibConrad Black says his comeback is already underway - National Post
  Upon Lord Black's return to Canada, Liberal leader Bob Rae Tweeted that maybe Prime Minister Stephen Harper would “listen to Conrad Black's views on the needed reforms to our criminal justice system.” Nevertheless, Lord Black was guarded on the issue ...and more » read more
  Mon 6:18 pm | news.nationalpost.com
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  MPndpVisions of elections future: a nightmare for the Liberals? - Ottawa Citizen
  By Andrew Cohen May 21, 2012 9:13 PM It is October 2015, and Canada is in an election campaign. After almost 10 years of Stephen Harper and the Conservatives, the country is considering whether to give the party a fourth consecutive mandate. read more
  Also in this article:Stephen HarperBob Rae
  Mon 6:14 pm | ottawacitizen.com
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  MPndpMulcair says he's putting together an 'extraordinary' team for 2015 - Edmonton Journal
  OTTAWA — Polls suggesting that the New Democratic Party is a contender to form government in 2015 allow the party to recruit star candidates — including well-known figures from the business community, according to Thomas Mulcair. read more
  Mon 3:21 pm | edmontonjournal.com
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  MPndpMulcair says he's putting together an 'extraordinary' team for 2015 - Canada.com
  OTTAWA — Polls suggesting that the New Democratic Party is a contender to form government in 2015 allow the party to recruit star candidates — including well-known figures from the business community, according to Thomas Mulcair. read more
  Mon 3:20 pm | canada.com
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  MPconStephen Harper confirms Canada's soldiers will be out of Afghanistan after 2014 - National Post
  CHICAGO — Prime Minister Stephen Harper says there will be no Canadian boots on the ground in Afghanistan after 2014. But he says Canada will continue to financially support the Afghan military with $110-million a year for the next three years. read more
  Mon 12:22 pm | news.nationalpost.com
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  MPconTime for big ideas: Imagine Canada after Harper - rabble.ca
  By Murray Dobbin Stephen Harper, too, shall pass into history, recorded as one of the most destructive, personally malignant personalities ever to have soiled the Canadian political landscape. But in the meantime, Canadians are so distracted by his ... read more
  Mon 11:29 am | rabble.ca
  • MLA Nicholas SimonsTime for big ideas: Imagine Canada after Harper | rabble.ca http://t.co/yUWV5WJm
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  MPconPolitics, private sector new inspiration for Canada's Olympic marketing efforts - Globe and Mail
  Marketing strategies that used to be a hallmark of the Stephen Harper government — like direct outreach to the ethnic media and scripted news conferences backed by lavish photo ops — are quickly becoming a mainstay of the Canadian Olympic Committee. read more
  Mon 8:22 am | theglobeandmail.com
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  MPconPolitics, private sector new inspiration for Canada's Olympic marketing efforts - Winnipeg Free Press
  Marketing strategies that used to be a hallmark of the Stephen Harper government — like direct outreach to the ethnic media and scripted news conferences backed by lavish photo ops — are quickly becoming a mainstay of the Canadian Olympic Committee. read more
  Mon 8:08 am | winnipegfreepress.com
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  MPndpSteven Truscott fights another battle for his life - Toronto Star
  But now Steven Truscott, one of Canada's most famous victims of a wrongful conviction, is fighting one final, daunting battle — against cancer. Truscott, a 67-year-old grandfather, had his entire prostate removed last year in an attempt to destroy a ...and more » read more
  Mon 6:19 am | thestar.com
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  MPndpIf not the prime minister, then who speaks for Canadian unity? - TheChronicleHerald.ca
  In Queen Victoria's day, "Canada was a rough but shiny bauble in the colonial crown." (National Archives of Canada) Ah, Victoria Day, the day that all Canadians, from every region, age and ethnicity, celebrate the monarch under whom the British Empire ... read more
  Mon 2:28 am | thechronicleherald.ca

May 20th

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  MPconNDP Demands Harper Government Apologize For Komagata Maru Incident - South Asian Link
  ... to one of the darkest events in Canada's not so great distant path. Prime Minister Stephen Harper's failed attempt to make an informal apology in 2008 at an outdoor festival in Surrey was widely regarded as rude and insincere by the community.and more » read more
  Also in this article:Bob RaeJasbir Sandhu
  Sun 11:18 pm | thelinkpaper.ca
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  MPndpCanada pressed to keep up Afghanistan training role - Toronto Star
  Even Canada, under pressure to commit to a longer term training role for its troops, has indicated that all it has left to give is financial assistance. The military alliance's formal talks on Afghanistan don't begin until Monday, but the answer to ...and more » read more
  Sun 10:10 pm | thestar.com

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