Minister says Alberta's royalty changes will be popular with the energy sector
THE CANADIAN PRESS
11 Mar, 2010 0 0
EDMONTON - The growth of Alberta's energy sector over the next couple of years will be hanging in the balance as the province announces royalty changes today.
Energy Minister Ron Liepert will wait until after the stock markets close to announce the changes.
Alberta's Tory government is trying
Even Tories want Jaffer, Guergis to clear the air on bad behaviour
Joan Bryden, THE CANADIAN PRESS
10 Mar, 2010 0 0
OTTAWA - Rahim Jaffer and Helena Guergis have become the poster couple for political entitlement, under attack not just by opposition critics but by prominent members of their own Conservative party.
Jaffer, a former MP and one-time chair of the Conservatives's national caucus, was under intense
Quebec sales tax hike better than raising income tax: cabinet minister
THE CANADIAN PRESS
10 Mar, 2010 0 0
QUEBEC - Quebec's economic development minister says an increase in the provincial sales tax would be fair and be better than raising income taxes.
"After turning over all the rocks and looking at cuts, if we go in that direction, the sales tax would have less of a negative impact," Clement Gign
Canada enlists Haitian diaspora for post-quake rebuilding
Mike Blanchfield, THE CANADIAN PRESS
10 Mar, 2010 0 0
OTTAWA - Canada will play a leading role at an international meeting to rally the Haitian diaspora to rebuild their earthquake-battered homeland, The Canadian Press has learned.
The Organization of American States is hosting the three-day gathering of Haitians living abroad in Washington later t
Foreign Affairs officials summoned as Afghan detainee probe nears public phase
Jim Bronskill, THE CANADIAN PRESS
10 Mar, 2010 0 0
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs officials have been called to testify before a probe into Canada's transfer of Afghan detainees - despite a court ruling that limited the inquiry's ability to delve beyond military ranks.
The Military Police Complaints Commission has sent summonses to a total of 25 peopl
Decades-old file on Tommy Douglas not old enough for safe release: CSIS
Joan Bryden, THE CANADIAN PRESS
10 Mar, 2010 0 1
OTTAWA - If Louis Riel had been hanged in 1885 because of an informer among his Metis rebels, Canada's spy agency might still be blocking release of that history-changing revelation 125 years later.
That hypothetical scenario was put to the Canadian Security Intelligence Service last week as par
High-on-the-hog MP pensions, mailouts spoofed by tax watchdogs
John Ward, THE CANADIAN PRESS
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OTTAWA - The high-on-the-hog pensions enjoyed by MPs and their $10 million in household mailouts have been singled out for spoof awards from a taxpayers group.
The MPs have collectively been awarded golden pigs in the 12th annual Canadian Taxpayers Federation Teddy awards, taking both the federa
After troubled past, GG says Haiti -Dominican now offer a lesson in co-operation
Alexander Panetta, THE CANADIAN PRESS
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Despite their troubled and sometimes cruel history as neighbours, Gov. Gen. Michaelle Jean said the recent Haitian earthquake appears to have brought it closer to the next-door Dominican Republic.
Jean applauded the co-operation between those countries during
Sask premier sorry if people offended by use of 9-11 image in fundraiser poster
Jennifer Graham, THE CANADIAN PRESS
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REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says he's sorry if anyone was offended by a fundraising poster that shows the World Trade Center on fire during the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
The image with flames exploding from one tower and a thick plume of black smoke rising from the other is the
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