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Keith Ashfield

Look Who's Talking And Who's Not

CBC | Posted 05.13.2013 | Canada Politics
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A charitable organization that studies Canada's democracy wants to get tongues wagging on the Hill by talking about, well, talking. In honour of th...

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Althia Raj

Decades Of Research Down The Drain?

HuffingtonPost.com | Althia Raj | Posted 05.07.2013 | Canada
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OTTAWA — These scientists aren’t asking for much. They just want access to a road, the ability to get in a boat and keep their research going b...

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Do Not Tell Women They Will "Make Good Wives"

Wayne K. Spear | Posted 03.26.2013 | Canada Living
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Wayne K. Spear

Last week, the Conservative Party of Canada's Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, Keith Ashfield, improvised some lines in an otherwise scripted event staged to cheerlead the 2013 federal budget. At the Morena family home he complimented the eldest daughter, Grace, observing that she is "a great cook" who will one day "make a wonderful wife for somebody." There is a universe of easy assumption packed into that little phrase. I've no idea if Ashfield is a sexist so-and-so. But I do know as certain that the world into which he was born is not the world in which we live today.

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WATCH: Tory Minister Called Out On 'Good Wife' Comment

The Huffington Post Canada | Ryan Maloney | Posted 03.25.2013 | Canada Politics
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A Tory cabinet minister has been accused of crossing the line after telling a young woman that she will “make a wonderful wife for somebody,” than...

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Fisheries Minister Suffers Heart Attack

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 12.17.2012 | Canada Politics
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Fisheries and Oceans Minister Keith Ashfield has suffered a heart attack. "Thanks to prompt medical attention I am now in stable condition and awai...

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Fourth Wave Of Federal Job Cuts Incoming

Posted 09.13.2012 | Canada Politics
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A fourth wave of job loss notifications washed over the federal public service Wednesday as the Conservatives appeared to be trying to shore up suppor...

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Canada's Enviro Policy is Sleeping With the Fishes

Gerald McEachern | Posted 08.07.2012 | Canada Politics
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Gerald McEachern

The government is actively gutting both the Fisheries Act and environmental protection legislation. One has to wonder what is happening to our democratic governments. Are they working for us, or for the anti-environmental corporations? The question is rhetorical, of course. We already know the answer.

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Coast Guard Shutters B.C. Communications Centres

CBC | Posted 07.18.2012 | Canada Politics
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The federal government has confirmed it will close three coast guard communication centres in Vancouver, Comox and Tofino by 2015. ...

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Trio Of Tory Ministers Crash Environmental Hearing

CP | Heather Scoffield, The Canadian Press | Posted 07.17.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - Three cabinet ministers made a surprise appearance at the subcommittee looking into the environment provisions in the government's massive bu...

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Feds Harming Fish Habitats?

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 06.24.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - Canadian conservationists say the federal government could dramatically weaken protections for fish habitats in lakes, streams and waterways ...

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Show Your Support For The Slaughter -- Wear A Genuine Seal Fur Pin

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.02.2012 | Canada Politics
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OTTAWA - The federal fisheries minister is encouraging all members of Parliament to show their support for Canada's embattled sealing industry by wear...

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Fisheries Ministry's Own Study Says Seal Slaughter Unlikely To Work

CP | Michael MacDonald, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.08.2011 | Canada Politics
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HALIFAX - As Canada's fisheries minister contemplates whether to approve a five-year cull of 140,000 grey seals on the East Coast, his own department ...

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