GuelphMercury.com - News - Ignatieff, Trudeau coming to Guelph Joanne Shuttleworth GUELPH The leader of the Liberal Party of Canada is coming to Guelph Friday for a roundtable discussion on agriculture. Since the federal government is prorogued, the Liberals have been holding Friday forums to discuss issues and develop policy, Guelph MP Frank Valeriote said Wednesday. The economy, the environment, health care, seniors, poverty and governance have been forum topics in the past; this week it's agriculture. And that makes Guelph the natural place to host the forum, since it's home to the Ministry of Agriculture, the University of Guelph and all its food research and a number of agriculture associations, Valeriote said. "Guelph is the bridge between rural and urban," said Valeri...

By Charlie Smith Publish Date: February 4, 2010 Power can be sexy, but not in all cases, judging by the results of the fifth annual Georgia Straight sex survey. In this year's questionnaire, which was available on Straight.com in late December and early January, women and men were asked which politician they would like to have sex with. For women, two men dominated the pack: U.S. president Barack Obama and Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson. Obama collected a quarter of the votes from females who answered the question. Our city's Olympic mayor was cited by more than 15 percent of women, which could be taken as an indication that Robertson won't have difficulty getting reelected. Trailing far behind was former U.S. president Bill Clinton. Even after the Monica Lewinsky scandal and all h...

par Pierre Boulanger Voir tous les articles de Pierre Boulanger Article mis en ligne le 2 février 2010 à 15:48 Soyez le premier à commenter cet article 19e édition du Mois de l'Histoire des Noirs s Sous le thème de l'unité et de la solidarité envers le peuple haïtien Le lundi 1er février avait le lancement des activités du Mois de l'Histoire des Noirs, événement annuel célébré par des millions d'individus à travers le monde. Chaque année, la Table Ronde du Mois de l'Histoire des Noirs souligne la contribution...

Bellavance, Joël-Denis Le chef du Parti libéral, Michael Ignatieff, voit d’un mauvais oeil la nomination au Sénat de l’Ontarien Bob Runciman, un ancien ministre dans le gouvernement conservateur de Mike Harris qui n’a jamais caché son hostilité envers le bilinguisme et les francophones. M. Runciman, qui a été ministre de la Sécurité publique de l’Ontario, a même déjà appuyé le groupe Alliance for the Preservation of English in Canada (APEC), une organisation francophobe dont les membres se sont rendus célèbres au pays en plein débat sur l’accord du lac Meech en piétinant et en brûlant le drapeau du Québec. M. Runciman est l’un des cinq sénateurs conservateurs nommés vendredi dernier par le premier ministre Stephen Harper afin de comb...

By: Theo Meyer Posted: 2/2/10 Justin Trudeau, the Liberal MP for the northern Montreal riding of Papineau, served as the keynote speaker at the McGill Model United Nations conference on Thursday. Trudeau, the son of the late prime minister, sat down with the Tribune to discuss his undergraduate days at McGill, prorogation, and his life outside of politics. Tell me a bit about your time at McGill. Why did you choose to study in English rather than in French? Because I’d done my high school and CEGEP at [Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf in Outremont], so it was all French up until then. I decided that switching it up would be appropriate. Having done my seven years at Brébeuf, all French, I was looking forward to three years in downtown Montreal speaking English. Did it live up to your e...

OTTAWA Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff presented three proposals today that would help to create new, high-paying jobs in many sectors of the economy and alleviate the worst level of youth unemployment in a generation. "We're in a jobless recovery, but the Conservatives have no plan for creating long-term, high-quality jobs," said Mr. Ignatieff. "That's why we're putting forward concrete proposals that would immediately stimulate job creation if the government were to adopt them in its upcoming budget." Liberals are proposing three initiatives that the federal government could implement right away to immediately create jobs and strengthen Canada's economic future: 1. Support for Manufacturers Boost job-creating productivity and competitiveness through a cas...

By P.A. Sévigny Last Friday night, Quebec's assorted media outlets all put aside their well-known rivalries when they agreed to broadcast a benefit concert which covered every media base in the province. As of 8 o'clock in the evening, when soprano Marie-Josée Lord opened the show with the pop classic Le Monde est Stone, telephones began to ring as people all over the province looked into their hearts and opened their wallets to help Haiti's desperate, and now starving, survivors. While the concert could be seen on TV, heard on radio or caught courtesy of broadband internet access, hundreds of people, including several federal, provincial and local politicians, took the trouble to go to TOHU pavilion in Montreal North because they wanted to demonstrate their sympathy and solidarity...

Says gov't should do the right thing,' without setting precedents Published January 26, 2010 By Martin C. Barry PXN The government needs to be reminded that this is a very particular catastrophe, and in situations like this you're not setting precedents you're doing the right thing’ Despite calls from within Canada's Haitian community for Ottawa to loosen up its immigration rules in order to accommodate the tens of thousands of persons displaced by the Caribbean nation's devastating earthquake, Papineau Liberal MP Justin Trudeau says he is not dissatisfied with measures being taken by the Conservative government and political partisanship should be avoided. "This is a human tragedy," he told NPEN. Human' approach "The thing we need to avoid is att...

by Aaron Wherry on Monday, January 25, 2010 7:46pm For the record, the doors were, in fact, locked. The House of Commons, all lit up, was empty and quiet. At worst, a betrayal of our democracy, a grievous symbol of Parliament's decline. At best, a minor waste of electricity. In the morning, the Liberal and NDP caucuses had taken turns standing in front of the Commons in order to demonstrate their similar frustrations. Michael Ignatieff took the opportunity to propose a number of reforms that might ensure we never have to witness these sorts of photo ops again. The press gallery took that opportunity to express its confusion and impatience with infinitely debatable complications of constitutional law. By the afternoon, things had quieted down some. In the foyer outside the Commons, a larg...

HUBERT BAUCH, The Gazette Yesterday’s rally to protest against the prime minister’s year-end move to shut down Parliament until March went peacefully, even as it gave Stephen Harper a sound hammering. “Harper arrogant!” and “Harper you lie!” was the chant in French as the 300-odd demonstrators who turned out marched from Émilie Gamelin Park to Phillips Square. In English it was, “Hey hey, ho ho, Stephen Harper has to go,” and “Harper out!” “Harper wanted for crimes against democracy,” read one placard. “Parliament belongs to us, not Harper,” read another. “Stand up to Harper,” read others. At Phillips Square, they gathered under the statue of King Edward VII to hear protest organizers and oppos...