#1 — CBC | Wildrose Alliance wins Calgary-Glenmore byelection
In a strong reprimand to the Alberta Progressive Conservative government, voters in Calgary-Glenmore have elected Paul Hinman of the Wildrose Alliance as their first non-Tory MLA in four decades.
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#2 — CBC | Search for missing N.L. fisherman over
The search and rescue operation to locate the missing crewmember of the Sea Gypsy ended Monday evening.
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#3 — Globe | ‘We’re not cutting any deals,’ Tories say
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is refusing to make any backroom deals with the NDP to keep his minority government in power, setting the stage for a public dance between the two parties as Parliament heads into a confidence vote on Friday.
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#4 — Globe | Two Alberta men charged in alleged Ponzi scheme worth up to $400-million
RCMP arrested an Alberta man and laid charges against another on allegations that both were involved in a Ponzi scheme that police say raised at least $100-million – and perhaps as much as $400-million – from thousands of investors.
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#5 — NP | Oil sands foes ready hostile reception for Harper in D.C.
WASHINGTON – A coalition of North American environmental groups plans to welcome Prime Minister Stephen Harper to Washington this week with an advertising blitz targeting Alberta’s oil sands and Ottawa’s climate change policy.
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#6 — NP | Ontario announces strict spending rules for bureaucrats
TORONTO — Ontario’s Liberal government kicked off a new legislative session on Monday by announcing new spending rules for public-sector employees.
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#7 — NP | Pension reform looms as election issue
After simmering over the summer, the issue of pension reform is heating up again in Ottawa.
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#8 — OC | Tories maintain strong lead over Liberals, poll finds
OTTAWA-The federal Conservatives continue to hold a commanding lead over their political rivals, while Liberal party leader Michael Ignatieff risks taking the blame in the event of a fall election that Canadians clearly do not want, according to a new Ipsos Reid poll.
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#9 — Star | Conservatives buy some time
OTTAWA–Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives set the stage for their first parliamentary survival test on Friday, but the threatened political showdown that could lead to an early election appeared to be losing steam.
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The Liberals will figure out sooner or later that the nation has become deaf to their periodic rants. They burned themselves but good with the coalition. The Great Unifiers of Canada might as well have had public, unprotected sex with the separatistes.
Oh please, Quebec, would you just disappear already? Your whining is not so much of a priority anymore.
I figure the longer we can keep the Liberals away from the public money pipelines, the better off we will be as a nation.
Their corruption was tolerated in the name of national unity. But that ended the day they pulled down their pants and lept into bed with the Bloc. Put a fork in them. They are done.