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Tom Mulcair

WATCH: What Mulcair Really Thinks About Harper And Trudeau

The Huffington Post Canada | Posted 02.22.2013 | Canada Politics

Thomas Mulcair gives his take on Stephen Harper and Justin Trudeau in an interview with Peter Mansbridge roughly one year after being elected leader o...

Bad News Gets Worse For Mulcair

CBC | Posted 04.12.2013 | Canada Politics

A new poll shows Liberals and Opposition New Democrats are virtually tied in second place for national support, and federal Conservatives leading nati...

Mulcair Takes Nasty Spill

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 04.08.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - A nasty spill has left Tom Mulcair with no doubt that the nation's capital can be a dangerous place for a politician — particularly in wint...

'Body' Found In Mulcair's Office

CP | Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press | Posted 04.03.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - A body has been found in the Parliament Hill office of NDP Leader Tom Mulcair.Authorities say identification has been difficult because of th...

Mulcair Takes A Page Out Of Harper's Playbook

CP | Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.17.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - It was billed as a leaders' meeting about policy, but it was really a meeting about NDP perceptions.Power wasn't the subtext, it was the poin...

Yonder, A New Hope

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 03.16.2013 | Canada Politics

WINNIPEG - The federal New Democrats are hoping to duplicate their Quebec election success on the Prairies, but political watchers suggest the party h...

Mulcair To Spence: End Hunger Strike

CP | Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | Posted 03.15.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - The leader of the official Opposition and a prominent aboriginal chief have added their voices to the chorus calling for Attawapiskat Chief T...

How Do You Like Him Now?

CP | Bruce Cheadle, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.26.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Stephen Harper, we hardly know you.Almost seven years after Harper led his Conservatives to office and ended more than a decade of uninterrup...

Who Sounds More Like A Conservative?

CP | Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press | Posted 02.15.2013 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Tom Mulcair boasts that he often sounds more like a conservative than Prime Minister Stephen Harper.It may seem an odd thing for the leader o...

The Most Overlooked Stories Of 2012?

CBC | Posted 02.14.2013 | Canada

Canada's credibility on the world stage, health care, and climate change topped the list of most overlooked political stories of 2012, according to Ca...

B.C. Liberal Party Expenses Out Of Whack

Dermod_Travis | Posted 02.03.2013 | Canada British Columbia
Dermod_Travis

Sometimes when you want to know how prudent a political party will be with the taxpayer's dime, it doesn't hurt to consider how prudent they are when it comes to spending their own dime at party headquarters. Compared to their counterparts in other provinces, the B.C. Liberal party spends like there's no tomorrow. And it's spending that increasingly points to something ominous: election campaigns that never end.

Mulcair Warns Of 'Infrastructure Cliff'

CBC | Posted 01.22.2013 | Canada Politics

Cities and towns in Canada are in danger of going over an "infrastructure cliff" unless a federally funded infrastructure plan replaces the Building C...

Tom Mulcair Weighs In On U.S. Election

CP | Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.04.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - As the NDP tried to lay the groundwork in Quebec over the weekend for a federal election victory in 2015, some of the scuttlebutt was on an...

NDP Divided On Quebec

CP | Benjamin Shingler, The Canadian Press | Posted 01.03.2013 | Canada Politics

MONTREAL - New Democrats were divided Saturday about whether to set up a Quebec wing of their party that would add a left-leaning, federalist voice to...

Feds' 'Lack Of Transparency Is Starting To Reach New Heights'

CBC | Posted 12.21.2012 | Canada Politics

NDP critics Peter Julian and Hélène Leblanc added their voices Monday to those objecting to the Harper government's "secretive handling" of foreign ...

Rob Landers Apologizes For 'Insensitive' Layton Comments

CP | Jennifer Ditchburn, The Canadian Press | Posted 12.01.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Conservatives found themselves cringing once again Monday at the ramblings of caucus colleague Rob Anders — this time a brazen suggestion t...

Ditch Trash Talking In The Commons, MPs Urge

CP | Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.30.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - Opposition parties, and even some Tories, are urging the Speaker to stem the tide of partisan vitriol in the House of Commons before it becom...

Send It East: Mulcair Backs Pipeline Plan

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 09.28.2012 | Canada Business

NDP leader Thomas Mulcair has thrown his party’s support behind a proposal to ship oil from Alberta to eastern Canada, saying it would lower energy ...

Media Bites: Tom Mulcair and Duchess Kate Let it All Hang Out

J.J. McCullough | Posted 11.20.2012 | Canada
J.J. McCullough

2012-04-27-mediabitesreal.jpg Thomas Muclair... wants to raise your taxes! Specifically, he wants to raise a carbon tax, which is a tax on everything you have, want, or could even conceive of! Time-traveling unicorn zombie cyborgs? Oh, you better believe Tom's gonna tax the hell outta those. You know what else was taxing? All the coverage of Kate's topless foray. To summarize, the consensus is that duchesses should not be naked in public.

C'mon Harper

CP | The Canadian Press | Posted 11.19.2012 | Canada Politics

OTTAWA - The New Democrats on Wednesday accused the federal Conservatives of endangering the fragile economic recovery and called on the prime ministe...

Mulcair Weighs In On 'Shocking' Election Violence

CP | Joan Bryden, The Canadian Press | Posted 11.05.2012 | Canada Politics

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The weak minority mandate won by the separatist Parti Quebecois won't provoke a national unity crisis, Tom Mulcair predicted Wednes...

Coming To Quebec

CBC | Posted 10.17.2012 | Canada Politics

Federal New Democratic Party Leader Tom Mulcair announced Quebecers will have the chance to vote for the party in the province's next election. ...

Bad News For This Party

CBC | Posted 09.18.2012 | Canada Politics

The federal NDP may have lost some of the ground it gained against the Conservatives in the aftermath of Tom Mulcair's takeover as party leader, a new...

7 Things Politicians Said Between Pancakes At The Stampede

CBC | Posted 09.11.2012 | Canada Politics

Stampede week is schmooze week in Calgary, as a parade of politicians and business leaders roll into cowtown decked out in cowboy hats, buckles and bo...

Becoming A National Force?

CBC | Posted 09.11.2012 | Canada Politics

After the last federal election some observers felt the NDP had reached its peak based on the popularity of then-leader Jack Layton and the surprising...