Referendum law planned for N.B. - New Brunswick. Premier David Alward first promised a referendum law during his opposition to the proposed NB Power sale.
(CBC) The Progressive Conservative government introduced a referendum bill on Wednesday that will create a framework for giving voters a say in important decisions. Premier David Alward championed the use of referendums during his party's fight against the failed deal to sell NB Power to Hydro-Québec. The 'Other Revolution': Louis Robichaud's New Brunswick. Countdown to Victory: The Last...
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Predictably, supporters of the current government health monopoly have charged that the OECD is off base, while our politicians — always reluctant to touch the “third rail of Canadian politics” — have been mostly silent. Both reactions are unfortunate, because the reforms proposed by the Paris-based organization are the kind of small first steps needed to improve health care in Canada without crushing taxpayers. According to the OECD, Canada already devotes more of its GDP to health care than all but five of 32 industrialized nations — the United States, France, Switzerland, Austria and Germany — all of which allow substantial private expenditure on care. National Post. Lorne Gunter: Trudeau’s impact is obvious. It’s also mostly bad. Pierre Trudeau died 10 years ago this week, so of course the tributes and legacy analyses have been coming thick and fast.
Among my favourites was offered up by Chantel Hebert, one of the few people worth reading at the Toronto Star. Well, I have one, too. But unlike most commentators, I come to bury Trudeau (or at least make sure he’s still buried), not to praise him. While he certainly had a profound impact on Canada, it was mostly destructive. News - Politics - Guergis vows to run as Independent. MP Helena Guergis says she will run as an "independent conservative" in the next federal election after being dropped as the official Conservative Party candidate in the central Ontario riding of Simcoe-Grey.
MP Helena Guergis says her constituents are urging her to stand as an Independent candidate in the next federal election. White House: Global Warming Out, 'Global Climate Disruption' In. White House science adviser John Holdren speaks at the National Press Club in Washington Oct. 8, 2009.
(AP Photo) From the administration that brought you "man-caused disaster" and "overseas contingency operation," another terminology change is in the pipeline. The White House wants the public to start using the term "global climate disruption" in place of "global warming" -- fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is. White House science adviser John Holdren urged people to start using the phrase during a speech last week in Oslo, echoing a plea he made three years earlier. Holdren said global warming is a "dangerous misnomer" for a problem far more complicated than a rise in temperature.
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