by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Aug 26, 2008 | Canada, GTA Politics, Ontario
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Stephen Harper portrayed a snap election as a virtual certainty Tuesday morning and hinted it will likely be triggered next week. read more | digg story
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Aug 19, 2008 | Canada, GTA Politics, Ontario, Technology, Toronto, World
OTTAWA — Critics of the Harper government’s proposed changes to the Copyright Act have launched a cyber crusade to fight the controversial bill. They’re using everything from Facebook to YouTube to Wikipedia to blogs to get their message out. They want the...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Jun 23, 2008 | Canada, GTA Environment, GTA Issues, GTA Politics, Oil, Ontario, Public Transit, Technology, Toronto, USA, World
Despite increasing local demand for zero-emissions cars and trucks and robust exports of electric vehicles, Canada will not allow them on its roads, lament manufacturers. “It’s a daily embarrassment,” said Ian Clifford, president of Zenn Motor...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 30, 2007 | Canada
The Harper government is expected to announce plans to cut the GST to 5 per cent when it updates Canadians this afternoon on Ottawa’s swelling budget surplus. The timing of the fall economic statement has been moved up, sources say, to give the Conservatives one...
by thegtapatriot@yahoo.ca | Oct 16, 2007 | Canada
OTTAWA — Canada’s military involvement in Afghanistan will likely continue to 2011, two years past the current commitment, the government’s throne speech declared Tuesday. The Conservative speech laid out the clearest timeline for the controversial...