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  • The Pension Crisis by Senior Money Memos on Oct 28, 2009

    Jack Layton, the leader of the NDP in Canada says that the Country faces a ‘national pension crisis’. As you can find with a search on Google Insights, this same concern is expressed elsewhere around the world as shown by the following c...

  • In Stephen Harper's world: even suicide is no way out by Arsenisms on Oct 16, 2009

    The Harper government has quietly nixed recommendations to expand and modernize Canada's access-to-information and privacy laws. Our national politics getting you down? Is our federal government not living up to your expectations, here, here, and he...

  • Why are we so dammed afraid to get smart on crime? by A BCer in Toronto on Oct 6, 2009

    As a Liberal who would describe himself as socially moderate and fiscally conservative, I'm increasingly angry and frustrated with the inability and unwillingness of the centre/left to get smart on crime policy. Increasingly, we’re letting the cons...

  • Friday Funny: Jack borrows Steve's Timmies play by A BCer in Toronto on Oct 2, 2009

    Not only is the NDP voting/abstaining with the Stephen Harper Conservatives, Jack Layton is now taking a page from their press conference playbook with this Thunder Bay event tomorrow:THUNDER BAY, Ont. _ Federal NDP leader Jack Layton holds news conf...

  • Abstinence Only Voting by Calgary Grit on Oct 1, 2009

    "Nothing makes people more cynical about politics than when parties don't do what they say, don't stand up for what they believe."-Jack Layton, 2007TODAY:The House of Commons voted 144-117 today against a Liberal motion to bring down the minority Con...

  • Jack Layton on abstentions by A BCer in Toronto on Oct 1, 2009

    Today, while the Liberals and the BQ voted non-confidence in the Conservative government of Stephen Harper, the NDP abstained. They stayed in their seats while Canada watched, ensuring we will continue to be governed by Stephen Harper.The NDP thought...

  • Jack Layton: Making Parliament Work Since One Week Ago by Calgary Grit on Sep 30, 2009

    A new NDP ad is out (which I assume won't actually air), where Jack chides the other parties...for doing what he proudly did for the past three years.

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