AM640 is reporting that Andrea Horwath has been named the new leader of Ontario’s New Democratic Party.

Horwath succeeds leadership from Howard Hampton after he announced would not seek re-election as party leader, a position he has held since 1996.

Horwath has been MPP for Hamilton East since 2004 and beat out fellow colleagues Peter Tabuns, Michael Prue, Gilles Bisson for the position.

A new campaign called saveournet.ca has launched, hoping to bring attention to the important issue of Net Neutrality in Canada.

Their youtube video does a fairly good job at explaining the reasoning of their campaign and the importance of net neutrality:


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The Detroit News reports that President Bush has announced Friday morning a $13.4 billion bailout for General Motors and Chrysler.

The structure of the bailout is different from that of the financial sector’s recent $700 billion bailout, in that it is in the form of a short-term loan, with apparent strict conditions. 

The 3-year loan calls for another $4 billion in February, bringing the total to $17.3 billion.
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On last night’s episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Jon got right into our parliamentary issue with his first topic of the night.

Finally, Canada is relevant again. (for good reason or bad)

It’s amazing how many important points are actually hit on with this segment. Jon manages to talk about issues I planned to write about over the next two weeks. Comically, he mentions Prime Minister Harper’s (bowl-shaped, perfect) hair, one of the great mysteries of our time. “What kind of magical creatures hair doesn’t get messed up, IN A HAIL STORM?”. Thank you Jon, I couldn’t have said it better myself.

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