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Matt Gurney: The bureaucrats are running the NDP asylum
What’s better than getting a government job? Getting a government job that can never go away even after the job is complete. Hello, Veterans Affairs Canada! In a recent press release, NDP MP Peter...
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MPs defend their $804 million in pension benefits, but attack PM over hockey...
As a study in selective rage, you can’t much beat this: MPs are upset that Stephen Harper took his daughter to Boston to watch the Vancouver Canucks play (if you can use that word) the Boston Bruins....
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Blog Nuggets: Quick Ontario, call an election before your liver gives out
An Ontario study finds the number of people who drink every day has almost doubled, from 5.3% to 9.3%, between 2002 and 2009. The figures indicate the same number of people drink as before, but they...
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Jeff Jedras: In defence of floor-crossing MPs
I think Peter Stoffer is coming from a good place and I think his intentions are pure, but I feel strongly that his private members bill banning floor crossing is a bad idea that, rather than improving...
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Stephen Maher: Broadbent endorsement means NDP leadership race could be over
Stephen Maher OTTAWA — This time last year, the NDP was in trouble. The Tories were trying to scrap the gun registry, but they didn’t have enough votes. Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff cleverly...
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Ottawa’s All Party Golf Caucus must have been hit in the head by a golf ball
Sometimes the stuff you read in the paper makes you rub your eyes and read it again, just in case you’re hallucinating. Like this for instance: Some MPs, led (it seems) by the NDP, think this is a good...
View ArticleExpensive questions: It cost taxpayers $150,000 to answer a single query from...
It cost taxpayers an estimated $1.2-million to answer written questions from MPs – including $150,000 on a single query from a Liberal MP, new figures reveal. The questions, 305 of them, were all...
View ArticleMany MPs set to receive 'lucrative' pensions topping $100,000 a year for life
Many federal politicians who decide to retire at the next election are set to walk away with millions of dollars from the lucrative parliamentary pension plan. With a cabinet shuffle expected soon,...
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Veterans report calls for changes to oft-maligned charter — but stops short...
FilesGreg Kerr, chair of the House of Commons chairman OTTAWA — A House of Commons committee recommends a series of improvements to the federal government’s oft-maligned veterans charter — but not the...
View ArticleMending bond with veterans tough if Tories can’t ensure ex-soldiers don’t...
OTTAWA — Making sure wounded ex-soldiers — most notably amputees — don’t have to repeatedly verify their injuries to retain their benefits is proving much easier said than done for Veterans Affairs...
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From socialists to good-old-boys: A taxonomy of the NDP’s Edmonton factions
Remember during the last federal election when the NDP was a big, monolithic organization with careful messaging and detailed plans to form government? Well those days are over, and the party has...
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