Canadian tax code a make work project for accountants and lawyers Thursday’s federal budget had this year’s goodies. Yet more sharply-focused Canadian tax code credits for this and that. The Toronto Transit Commission’s subway cars, street cars and buses have ads (labelled “Canada’s Economic Action Plan”) extolling various tax credits you can use when filing [...]
Martha Hall Findlay says Justin Trudeau can be beaten Federal Liberal leadership candidate Martha Hall Findlay says the race for leader is far from over, despite the withdrawal last week of top contender Marc Garneau amidst internal polling that suggested no candidate could beat front-runner Justin Trudeau. “We’re taking that with a grain of salt,” [...]
Thomas Mulcair and delegation deny pipeline-bashing Thomas Mulcair says he has nothing to learn from Conservatives about how an official Opposition leader should comport himself when travelling outside Canada. Indeed, the NDP leader says the Tories – who’ve been bashing him all week for allegedly “trash talking” Canada during a visit to Washington and New [...]
Liberal Party of Canada ambitions for a comeback in tatters It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The Liberal Party of Canada leadership race was to be a battle. Policy was supposed to emerge from a clash of titans. Supporters were supposed to emerge in droves to back ideas and candidates. Over the course of the [...]
Old guard of Canadian politics backing Justin Trudeau against Thomas Mulcair No one should be surprised that there’s not much of a market for NDP leader Thomas Mulcair in Alberta. Thomas Mulcair came out of the NDP’s leadership race in March last year and almost immediately gave a speech where he put forward the notion that [...]
Liberal Party of Canada must appeal to voters who have stayed home in the past As the Liberal Party of Canada leadership candidates tried to drive supporters to their campaigns in advance of the March 4 cut-off, pollsters discovered the party was moving up in national political opinion polls. Supporters, remember, merely register on the [...]
Recent public uproar over Tom Flanagan child porn good example – Preston Manning Conservatives gathered in Ottawa this weekend to learn how best to spread their party’s message are being told one way is to know when to shut up. The Achilles heel of the modern-day conservative movement is people who end up discrediting it [...]
NDP MP Claude Patry’s floor-crossing this week signals nothing There’s an old joke about umpires. “I calls ‘em the way I sees ‘em, and if I don’t sees ‘em, I makes ‘em up.” Ottawa inside the Queensway this week was titillated, scandalized, excited, and energized by their notion of “real news”, otherwise known as process [...]
Final death toll for Hyderabad, India bomb blasts is 16 For 17-year-old Ijaz Ahmed, waiting for a bus at Dilsukhnagar in Hyderabad to return home in the evening had become a routine for the last six months. A student of Muffakam Jah Polytechnic college on the outskirts of Hyderabad, he came to Dilsukhnagar, where he [...]
Terrorist group suspected by police to be responsible for Hyderabad attack that killed 16 people Indian police are investigating whether an Islamic terrorist group was responsible for a dual bomb attack that killed 16 people outside a movie theatre and a bus station in the southern city of Hyderabad, a police official said Friday. Forensic [...]
