http://informedvote.ca Informed Vote (informedvote.ca) will keep Canadian voters informed on Canadian Politics such as Stephen Harper, Michael Ignatieff, Jack Layton, Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Green, as well as foreign issues like the Israel palestine conflict and local issues like the CUPE strike Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:16:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://informedvote.ca/2010/03/22/new-brunswick-premier-shawn-graham-feels-unfairly-criticized-by-media-welcome-to-democracy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=new-brunswick-premier-shawn-graham-feels-unfairly-criticized-by-media-welcome-to-democracy http://informedvote.ca/2010/03/22/new-brunswick-premier-shawn-graham-feels-unfairly-criticized-by-media-welcome-to-democracy/#comments Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:50:58 +0000 Jennifer Petryshen http://informedvote.ca/?p=2687

Sold Out: Sale of New Brunswick Power to Hydro Quebec Illustrates Leadership Void in Canadian Politics In the past few weeks New Brunswick has been lucky...

Canada’s Democracy to Destruction: The Right To Secede Imagine small communities in Canada’s northern wilderness making unanimous and...

Democracy, Deception, Political Spin and Government Integrity: The Vancover “Olympic Vote” Smoke and Mirror I would like to take a few minutes to clear...

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The Orwellian Security Camera Myth, Vancouver Winter Olympic Security and “The Canadian Just Society” The City of Vancouver, The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) and...

Stephen Harper Has Proven Again That Political Experience and Political Toughness matters:Machiavelli Would be Proud In an earlier posting, I had discussed why certain politicians...

O, Canada Auditor General Sheila Fraser has made the assertive announcement that...

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Vancouver First Nations Resisting 2010 Winter Olympic Games While many aboriginals in Canada are joining in the celebrations...

Exclusion of Women’s Ski Jumping from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics is a Supreme Court of Canada Cop-Out On December 22nd, the Supreme Court of Canada refused to...

Canada’s ‘Own the Podium’ Program Yields Golden Dividends at Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games The Vancouver 2010 Olympics are now over, with the nation...

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper Prorogues Parliament: Massive “Turtle” or Clever Election Strategy? On December 30th, two weeks after the House of Commons...

A Piece on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Decision to Prorogue Parliament The PM, proving to be quite uncreative when it comes...

Stephen Harper’s Prorogation & Canada’s Parliamentary Failure A few months ago I wrote a paper for a...

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CBC: Keeping Canadian Voters Confused by Paying Rex Murphy to Spout Nonsense on Climate Change How can we expect Canadians to vote in an informed...

$300+ Million Down the Drain – 2 Months Later Imagine what Canada could have done with the election budget…...

Canadian Politics And The Media These days, Canadian politics is dominated by a surge of...

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A Piece on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Decision to Prorogue Parliament The PM, proving to be quite uncreative when it comes...

Stephen Harper Has No Need for Democracy – A Prorogued Parliament is a Silent One As I’ve arrived home from my Christmas holiday, I like...

Baseless: Stephen Harper’s Liberal Solution HCBAX9NPSJB8 It is a truism that the Conservative’s base votes....

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Liberal MP Scott Brison’s Brokeback Moment: Should Hateful, Homophobic Comments be Removed From Public Websites? Scott Brison, a Liberal MP, recently mailed out his Christmas...

Nova Scotia to Consider Lower Voting Age to 16 Stephen McNeil, Nova Scotia’s Liberal leader, thinks the province should...

Nova Scotia to Offer Fitness Tax Credit In an attempt to improve Canadians’ health, Nova Scotia has...

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Canada Will Not Repatriate Woman in Saudi Arabia The Canadian government has decided not to repatriate a Quebec...

In the Realm of Canadian Federal and Provincial Politics, it Does Appear to be True That Nice Guys Come in Last “Great men are almost always bad men.” - Lord Acton...

Brian Mulroney & Jean Chretien: An Epic Battle Between Two Political Heavyweights That Canadians Never Got To See Former Prime Ministers Brian Mulroney and Jean Chretien share many...

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There Are Great Life Lessons to be Gleaned by Watching Politicians and Reading Political History That’s Wilfrid Laurier from Quebec. He has no future. He...

Yes Canada, We Have “Crazy” Politicians Too Last week in the United States Congress, Senator Jim Bunning...

Canada and the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Rankings The World Economic Forum released their annual report on the...

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New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham Feels Unfairly Criticized By Media – Welcome to “Democracy” Just when I think I’m stuck for a blog idea,...

The Feudal Times – Politics in Quebec I’m confused. After years of experiencing the slow, muddling governments...

In the Realm of Canadian Federal and Provincial Politics, it Does Appear to be True That Nice Guys Come in Last “Great men are almost always bad men.” - Lord Acton...

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