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Blog Entries by Brodie Fenlon from 05/2011

Ed Broadbent On How Jack Layton Can Avoid A 'One-Night Stand' With Quebec

Posted 05.26.2011 | Canada Politics

Jack Layton can avoid a 'one-night stand' with Quebec voters and build his base in the province by sticking to core social democratic values, filling ...

Cyber Security: Canada Is Failing The World

Posted 05.26.2011 | Canada

Cyberspace has become an all-immersive domain, and the global communications environment in which all of society, economics, and politics are now embe...

Re-Opening The Constitution: Canadians Cool With It, Poll Finds

Posted 05.26.2011 | Canada Politics

(CP) -- A new poll suggests Canadians have overcome their aversion to constitutional wrangling. The Canadian Press Harris-Decima survey indicates a...

Canucks' Stanley Cup Run Gives Vancouver A Post-Olympic Buzz

Posted 05.26.2011 | Canada

Sometimes, it's a slap shot from the point; other times, a lucky bounce wobbling past the goal line. However it goes down, there comes an instant whe...

Ontario's Green Energy Backlash: Politicians Exploit Growing Opposition To Wind Turbines, Solar

Posted 05.27.2011 | Canada Business

Canadian politicians know well enough to avoid hot buttons like religion or tax hikes. So why then is Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Huda...

Canucks Stanley Cup Parody Song Goes Viral (VIDEO)

Posted 05.27.2011 | Canada

Canucks uber fan Philbert Simon wrote some lyrics to the tune from Bruno Mar’s Lazy Song, grabbed some friends to play the role of the infamous Gree...

G8's Arab Spring Fund Won't Include Canadian Cash

Posted 05.27.2011 | Canada Politics

(CBC) -- G8 nations are pledging $20 billion US to support countries that are transitioning to democracy in the Middle East and North Africa, but the ...

Internet Porn: Sex No Longer Sells In World Of Webcams And Piracy

Posted 05.27.2011 | Canada

If sex sells, there's one place it isn't selling: online. Once the pioneers of the e-commerce movement and advancing online technology during the e...

Is Jack Layton Flirting With Quebec Separatists?

Posted 05.28.2011 | Canada Politics

On many issues, the nominally federalist NDP are nearly as nationalist as the overtly separatist BQ — including on matters of language policy in the...

Michael Ignatieff And The Death Of Liberal Canada: Grit Leader Brilliant, Unfocused, Says Newman

Posted 05.28.2011 | Canada Politics

Author Peter C. Newman had to quickly change tack on a book he was writing about former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff, reports the Globe and Mail's...

Canadian Soldier Karl Manning Dies In Afghanistan In 'Non-Hostile,' 'Non-Accident'

Posted 05.28.2011 | Canada

(CP) KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The position of the Canadian flag said it all. In fact, it spoke louder than anything Brig.-Gen. Dean Milner could h...

Harper To Greece: Austerity Worth The Pain

Posted 05.28.2011 | Canada Politics

(CP) ATHENS, Greece — Prime Minister Stephen Harper brought a message from Canadian politics to his Greek counterpart Saturday. He said that some...

Nude Tweet: Ontario PC Candidate George Lepp Says Pornographic Twitter Photo Not Of Him

Posted 05.29.2011 | Canada Politics

Whose privates were shared with the world via a photo posted to the Twitter feed of an Ontario PC candidate? The Ontario Progressive Conservatives ...

Senate Term Limits, Elections: Harper Government Pursues Major Changes To Red Chamber

Posted 05.30.2011 | Canada Politics

The Conservatives will introduce legislation in June that will bring about the most important changes to the Senate since Confederation, just weeks af...

Oilsands Pollution Data Left Out Of UN Report By Tories

Posted 05.30.2011 | Canada Politics

The federal government has acknowledged it deliberately excluded data indicating a 20 per cent increase in annual pollution from Canada’s oilsands i...

Israel 1967 Borders: Harper And Netanyahu Didn't Chat About It, Spokesman Says

Posted 05.30.2011 | Canada Politics

Prime Minister Stephen Harper did not discuss the G8 summit with his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu, a Harper spokesman says. The statement...

G8-G20 Security: Police Made Millions On Toronto Summit

Posted 05.30.2011 | Canada

(CBC) Police officers from forces outside the Greater Toronto Area brought in to work at last summer's G8 and G20 summits made millions of dollars thr...

Layton Visits Flooded Richelieu Valley After Water Levels Rise Over Weekend

Posted 05.30.2011 | Canada Politics

(CBC) -- Residents of Quebec's flood-stricken Richelieu Valley, hit by yet another rise in water levels over the weekend, will get a visit from NDP Le...

Senate Reform: Quebec Vows To Block Unilateral Federal Changes

Posted 05.31.2011 | Canada Politics

(The Canadian Press) -- Quebec is warning Stephen Harper it may go to court, if necessary, to block any attempt by the federal government to unilatera...

Barrick Gold 'Deeply Distressed' By Sex Assault Allegations At Africa Mine

Posted 05.31.2011 | Canada Business

(The Canadian Press) - TORONTO - Barrick Gold Corp. says it is investigating allegations of sexual assaults against local women at one of its gold min...

High Treason: Tories To Debate Punishment Proposal At Convention

Posted 05.31.2011 | Canada Politics

Stephen Harper’s governing Conservative Party will debate whether Canadians should be stripped of their citizenship should they take up arms against...

Real Housewives Of Vancouver In The Works

Posted 05.31.2011 | Canada

The over-the-top squabbles and intense drama of the 'Real Housewives' franchise are coming to Canada -- more specifically, to the west coast city of V...

Conrad Black Appeal Rejects By U.S. Supreme Court

Posted 05.31.2011 | Canada Business

(CBC) -- The U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. has rejected an appeal from former media mogul Conrad Black challenging his two remaining convicti...

Quebec Hells Angels: 31 Alleged Members Set Free By Judge Over Trial Delays

Posted 05.31.2011 | Canada

THE CANADIAN PRESS -- MONTREAL - Nearly three-dozen alleged members of the notorious Hells Angels biker gang walked out of a courthouse and into freed...