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December 17, 2013 Archives
Loonie Politics 12/17/2013: Afternoon Update
- Nelson Mandela and the power of a moment - Thomas Mulcair, Toronto Star
- Ottawa to take lead on Trans Mountain Pipeline review - Justine Hunter & Wendy Stueck, The Globe & Mail
- Alberta finance minister disappointed in Ottawa’s refusal to explore CPP reform - Jason Fekete & James Wood, Edmonton Journal
- Residential-school survivors to press court for access to Ontario documents - Gloria Galloway, The Globe & Mail
- Alberta Health Services scales back ER wait-time targets: Liberals - Keith Gerein, Edmonton Journal
- Intrigue in Caledon: CRA official forged documents to frame mayor - Marco Chown Oved, Toronto Star
- Details lacking on Tory school announcements - Don Braid, Calgary Herald
- Who are Canada’s 10 most-Googled politicians of 2013? - Chris Hannay, The Globe & Mail
- Time for Kathleen Wynne to get moving on transit - Martin Regg Cohn, Toronto Star
- Alberta Tories embracing bully tactics - Lorne Gunter, Calgary Sun
- Rob Ford apologizes to Toronto Star reporter who threatened to sue - CBC News
- Liberals visited by the ghosts of Chrétien’s past - Lawrence Martin, The Globe & Mail
- Tories buttoned their lips in post-question period scrums in 2013 - Glen McGregor, Ottawa Citizen
- Rob Ford sarcastically tells City Council he’s ‘super, super, super, super, super, super, super sorry’ for calling them corrupt - Josh Visser and Sarah Spitz, National Post
- Finance ministers make right call on big CPP - Terence Corcoran, Financial Post
Loonie Politics 12/17/2013: Morning Edition
- Rob Ford and his critics agree, the Toronto mayor is a bastion of conservatism. Except that isn’t true all all - Andrew Coyne, National Post
- Canada Pension Plan reform stalls without Ottawa’s support - CBC News
- Conservatives watching their public opinion numbers - Bea Vongdouangchanh, The Hill Times
- How the three principal Canada Pension Plan enrichment proposals would work - The Canadian Press, Macleans
- If Flaherty won’t, Kenney must - Matt Gurney, National Post
- Dale goes ahead with libel suit after deadline for apology from Ford passes - Ann Hui, The Globe & Mail
- Paillé and the Bloc Québécois - Eric Grenier, ThreeHundredEight.com
- Vancouver right-wing councillors really wish deputy mayor’s trip to Sochi was taxpayer funded - Brian Hutchison, National Post
- StatsCan error could cost Manitoba $500M, province says - CBC News
- Commons committee meets Wednesday to consider Canada Post discussion - Andrea Hill, Vancouver Sun
- Ontario to allow wine sales at farmers markets - Robert Benzie, Toronto Star
- Tories speaking out as PMO loses credibility, ministers become potential leadership rivals - John Ivison, National Post
- Alberta to request another $500-million or more in flood relief from Ottawa - Bill Curry, The Globe & Mail
- Premier Redford heading to India in new year to attend largest oil and gas show - The Canadian Press, Calgary Herald
- Conservatives won’t say if Reform Act will be free vote - Abbas Rana, The Hill Times
- Ontario ready to go it alone on pensions as provinces accuse Flaherty of blocking CPP reform - Gorden Isfeld, Financial Post
- Ailing Bloc Québécois in need of a saviour - Chantal Hébert, Toronto Star
- Marois wants feds to reach cheese deal before legislature adopts Canada-EU free trade - Michel Dolbec, The Canadian Press, Winnipeg Free Press
- Canadian disaster assistance team being pulled out of the Philippines - The Canadian Press, Macleans
- Kinder Morgan files National Energy Board application for pipeline expansion - Dene Moore, Calgary Herald
- Judges showing contempt by not imposing victim fine, Justice Minister says - Sean Fine, The Globe & Mail
- Free dental care coming for more low-income Ontario kids - Laurie Monsebraaten, Toronto Star
- No deal on CPP reform as provinces decry Ottawa’s ‘stall tactics’ - Bill Curry, The Globe & Mail
- Moore-mania misses mark - Editorial, Toronto Sun
- Manitoba government gets inquiry report into child’s death, but not yet public - The Canadian Press, Winnipeg Free Press
- Conservatives fundraising on Throne Speech’s ‘seizing Canada’s moment,’ opposition MPs slam move - Tim Naumetz, The Hill Times
- Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s children? Yes, minister, it is - Paula Simons, Edmonton Journal
- Rail traffic set to resume in Lac-Megantic on Wednesday - The Canadian Press, Vancouver Sun
- After sinking $20-million into Soviet car ferry, Newfoundland sells ‘rust bucket’ for just $76,000 - Tristin Hopper, National Post
- James Moore is sorry - Aaron Wherry, Macleans
- Obama’s 2013: A very tough year - Julian Zelizer, CNN
- President Obama’s Remarkable And Damaging Confession About Government - William Bennett & Christopher Beach, Forbes
- Politics Trumped Policy, Truth for Obama’s Reelect - Ron Fournier, National Journal
- Five Ways Republicans Screwed Up in 2013 (According to a Conservative) - Benjamin Brophy, The New Republic
- Budget deal shows the GOP has PTSD - Marc A. Thiessen, Washington Post
- Climate change expert’s fraud was ‘crime of massive proportion,’ say feds - Michael Isikoff, NBC News
- After Obama’s ‘Lie of the Year’ more spin - Marc Caputo, Miami Herald
- On budget deal, all eyes turn to Senate Republicans - Rebecca Kaplan, CBS News
