Entries Tagged as ‘Canada’

December 6, 2008

This Man Cannot Be Allowed To Run Canada – Or Any Other Country

In case anyone missed it, there is a bit of a political crisis raging in Canada. The recently reelected Conservative government is being challenged by a coalition of confused Liberals and the hard-left New Democrats, tacitly supported by seperatists.
Of course, in the election just two months ago, the Liberals at no point mentioned to the [...]

October 15, 2008

Harper Re-Elected Without Majority

The Conservative Party of Canada won yesterday’s election but did not achieve a majority. It captured 38 % and 143 seats while the Liberals got 26 % and 73 seatsĀ  (The Toronto Star).
The result does tighten Harper’s grip over government. The Conservatives also beat the Liberals in Ontario, the most populous province, for the first [...]

October 14, 2008

A Time For Certainty

As covered earlier (The Zanzibar Gazette), Canada goes to the polls today. Go Harper!

JDR

October 9, 2008

Anglosphere Elections

Not only America is going to the polls in the next month. Two other proud members of the English-speaking world is also about to elect a new government.
North of the 49th parallel, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper has called a general election in order to secure a majority government. Since 2006 he has headed a [...]