Canada - Monday, October 6th, 2008
Posted on 06 October 2008 by Jack
National Post | Tories say Liberals ‘fear-mongering’
OTTAWA - The Conservatives yesterday accused the Liberals of “fear-mongering” over the economy and the Bloc Quebecois accused Stephen Harper of lacking “morality.”
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Ottawa Citizen | Scores of federal prosecutors quit over poor pay
Frustrated federal prosecutors across Canada are quitting over poor pay as the Harper government ramps up their workload with anti-crime initiatives.
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Globe | Grim Afghan assessment backs NDP’s position, says Layton
ST. JOHN’S — A warning from Britain’s most senior military commander that the Afghanistan war cannot be won and may only be resolved through peace talks involving the Taliban validates the NDP’s position on the conflict, party Leader Jack Layton said Sunday.
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Globe | Conservatives enter final push in quest for majority
OTTAWA — His lead secure, Stephen Harper’s most likely chance of clinching a majority government with 10 campaign days left lies in suburban Toronto, small-city Ontario and British Columbia ridings once held by the Reform Party.
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The Star | Car vandals strike again
Bizarre and dangerous acts of violence against Liberal supporters with signs on their lawns spread into the riding of Parkdale-High Park yesterday, leaving police and party officials baffled.
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The Star | Arsonist who killed 5 gets life in prison
VANCOUVER–Calling the crime “depraved and vile,” a B.C. Supreme Court judge yesterday sentenced the man who set a house fire that killed five people in 2006 to 25 years in prison without parole.
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October 6th, 2008 at 7:30 am
anybody who read’s layton’s tax and spend programs should be scared.
October 6th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Re: Car Vandals -
I’m guessing far leftist activists. These are possibly the same people who spray “lies” all over the vendor boxes of the newspapers and who defaced the firefighter’s memorial near Queen’s Park. Unsurprising that Jack Layton got in front of this situation to offer his condemnation - he knows there are some wingnuts in his ranks.
October 6th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Re: fear-mongering
They’re all fear-mongering Jack, each and every one of them.
Partisans, of course see their leadership as speaking the plain truth - which, by it’s very unassailable and inarguable nature, should scare honest citizens away from the other guys… but that’s not fear-mongering, that’s just speaking the truth isn’t it?
October 6th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
We all live in our little bubbles, Stageleft. No surprise there at all.