Canada’s finance minister proposes changes to mortgage lending laws
From the National Post. Excerpt: On Tuesday, the Department of Finance announced three changes to the standards governing government-backed mortgages, that come into force April 19. Here are a summary...
View ArticleFederal conservatives in Canada aim to cut spending and waste from budget
Political Map of Canada Article from the National Post. Excerpt: The Conservative government sketched out on Thursday its initial plans to return to budget balance, by targeting cuts in the public...
View ArticleFiscally conservative Canada campaigns against global bank tax
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Story from Breitbart. Excerpt: Canada will “resist” a bank tax, Industry Minister Tony Clement said Tuesday as ministers fanned out across the world to raise...
View ArticleStephen Harper makes a stand against North Korean aggression
I spy... with my little eye... someone whose ass I must kick! Story here from the Edmonton Journal. Excerpt: Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a statement on Victoria Day that Canada is joining...
View ArticleCanadian prime minister Stephen Harper vows to end long-gun registry
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Here’s the story from the National Post. Excerpt: Prime Minister Stephen Harper vowed yesterday the Conservative party “will not rest” until the day it abolishes...
View ArticleColombia’s war on terrorism and Chile’s war on poverty
Map of South America A magnificent column about Colombia’s war on FARC. Excerpt: When Juan Manuel Santos came into office as Colombia’s president and emphasized economic issues over the fight against...
View ArticleShould it be illegal to coerce a woman to have an abortion?
Rod Bruinooge Story from Life Site News. (H/T Mary) Excerpt: The vote on the Canadian bill seeking to criminalize abortion coercion, which was initially pushed back to February, is now set for December...
View ArticleOff-duty policeman murders five Christians in Egypt
Yahoo News has the story. Excerpt: An off-duty policeman boarded a train and opened fire on Tuesday, killing a 71-year-old Christian man and wounding his wife and four others, the Interior Ministry...
View ArticleCanada created twice the number of jobs as the United States in January
U.S. Labor Force Participation By now, everyone has heard that Marxist Obama has failed to create jobs again, so that the underemployment rate is at 19.2%. (Underemployment is even higher than...
View ArticlePoll finds 68% of Canadians positive on Canadian economy
Map of Canada From the leftist Globe and Mail. Excerpt: A new international survey shows Canadians are in a very positive mood about the state of the economy, suggesting the opposition parties face an...
View ArticleStephen Harper’s Conservatives up to 43% in latest federal election poll
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper For my Canadian readers, especially Tory Ninja. (H/T Ben) Excerpt: Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have opened up a wide lead against their...
View ArticleStephen Harper’s Conservative Party cuts federal spending by 6.2%
Prime Minister Stephen Harper More news from up north. (H/T Ben) Excerpt: Federal government expenditures are set to fall next fiscal year by $16.5-billion, or 6.2%, with big cuts to regional...
View ArticleCanadians brace themselves for a federal election
Prime Minister Stephen Harper This just in! The Conservatives are going to take a shot at winning a majority. Excerpt: Canadians may face their fourth federal election in seven years as early as May,...
View ArticleConservatives lead Liberals by 19 points in latest 2011 election poll
Map of Canada Canada’s opposition parties decided not to support Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party, so Canada will hold a federal election in early May 2011. But should the opposition parties have...
View ArticleA closer look at Stephen Harper’s Family Tax Cut plan
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper From Life Site News. (H/T Jeanie) Excerpt: On the campaign trail Monday, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a family income-splitting plan that pro-family...
View ArticleHarper would ban political contributions from unions and corporations
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper From PostMedia News. Excerpt: Stephen Harper says scrapping taxpayer subsidies for political parties could help break Canada’s cycle of holding federal elections...
View ArticleHarper’s Conservatives lead Liberals 42.3 to 28.4 in latest election poll
From the Vancouver Province. Excerpt: Stephen Harper’s Conservatives have soared into majority government territory in B.C. with more than double the support of the Liberals, a new poll says. As the...
View ArticleStephen Harper’s Conservatives unveil “Here for Canada” platform
From Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party web site. (H/T Jeanie) Excerpt: Today, Prime Minister Stephen Harper unveiled his “Here for Canada” Conservative policy platform. The platform provides...
View ArticleStephen Harper wins English-language election debate
Stephen Harper shakes hands with petulant children From left-wing Global TV, a university professor scores the first English-language debate in the Canadian Federal election. Excerpt: How well did the...
View ArticleConservative Party unveils plan to promote religious liberty abroad
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper From the Montreal Gazette. Excerpt: A Conservative government would create a new, special “Office of Religious Freedom,” the party announced in its electoral...
View ArticleShould pro-life social conservatives vote for Stephen Harper?
Unborn baby scheming about tax cuts for married couples Don’t listen to me, listen to Dave Warren. Excerpt: Our tax code has everything to do with our societal propensity to demographic extinction. It...
View ArticleLiberal leader Michael Ignatieff admits plan to form coalition with Quebec...
2008 Election Canada Provincial Map Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff is willing to lead a coalition that would include Bloc Quebecois separatists. The separatists are a significant minority of the...
View ArticleLatest poll has Stephen Harper’s Conservatives leading by 19 points
Canada Federal Election Poll April 2011 The latest poll from National Post. Tories up by NINETEEN POINTS. Excerpt: The nationwide survey by Ipsos Reid, conducted exclusively for Postmedia News and...
View ArticleNDP leader Jack Layton lived in subsidized housing with $120,000 income
NDP leaders Bob Rae and Jack Layton Here’s an article from the Toronto (Red) Star on the NDP Party, Jack Layton and ethics. Excerpt: Layton, who is married to fellow NDP MP Olivia Chow, elicits strong...
View ArticleConservative Stephen Harper will free small businesses to create jobs
Prime Minister Stephen Harper Everyone please be patient for today and tomorrow, because I will be blogging mostly on the Canadian election which is set for Monday, May 2nd! Things will be back to...
View ArticleNDP leader Jack Layton promises to promote greater access to abortion
NDP leaders Bob Rae and Jack Layton From Life Site News. Excerpt: As Canada’s New Democratic Party (NDP) surges in the polls in the lead up to Monday’s federal election – raising the once-unimaginable...
View ArticleNDP leader Jack Layton gets medical care at private clinic instead of public...
NDP leaders Bob Rae and Jack Layton From CTV News: NDP Leader Jack Layton, who’s campaigning as the defender of public health care, had surgery at a private clinic in the 1990s, The Canadian Press has...
View ArticleConservative Stephen Harper will cut taxes for families
Prime Minister Stephen Harper Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper announces his tax cut plan for families. Excerpt: Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today that a re-elected Conservative...
View ArticleNDP leader Jack Layton wants consumers to pay higher prices for lower quality...
NDP leaders Bob Rae and Jack Layton Jack Layton is opposed to free trade with other nations, and Jack Layton supports the imposition of tariffs on imported goods. Stephen Harper favors free trade and...
View ArticleConservative Party leader Stephen Harper wins a majority
Stephen Harper Wins Majority You can see the latest Canadian election results here on the Sun News Network. The Conservatives won 167 seats in the House of Commons. They needed 155 for a majority of...
View ArticleWill the Conservative Party omnibus crime bill contain restrictions on free...
Map of Canada Several Canadians wrote to me about this story from the Ottawa Sun. Excerpt: The Conservatives plan on introducing an omnibus crime bill when the House resumes that wraps all of their...
View ArticleCanadian economy growing at 4% – twice as fast as US economy
From CTV News. Excerpt: The Canadian economy grew at twice the rate of its American counterpart in early 2011, posting its fastest rate of growth in the past year. Statistics Canada released figures on...
View ArticlePoll: Canadians becoming more conservative
Canada May 2011 Federal Election Results Consider this story from the Vancouver Sun. (H/T Andrew) Excerpt: Canadian ideals are shifting to the right, being taken over by a “unique strain of...
View ArticleWhat could Stephen Harper teach Michele Bachmann about winning elections?
Michele Bachmann should adopt Stephen Harper's plan Michele Bachmann is soliciting questions for her townhall meeting on her Facebook page. Please “like” her page and then like my question, so that it...
View ArticleStephen Harper says Islamicism is the biggest threat to Canada
From CBC. (H/T Blazing Cat Fur) Excerpt: In an exclusive interview with CBC News, Prime Minister Stephen Harper says the biggest security threat to Canada a decade after 9/11 is Islamic terrorism. In a...
View ArticleCanada’s economic boom: low tariffs, low corporate tax and more oil drilling
Prime Minister Stephen Harper From Canoe. Excerpt: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty announced Sunday the government will scrap 70 tariff items to save Canadian businesses about $32 million a year. “This...
View ArticleCould Obama have done better? He could learn from Canada’s success
Prime Minister Stephen Harper Here’s an editorial from Investors Business Daily. Excerpt: Away from the low growth and high regulation of an America under Washington’s thumb, our northern neighbor is...
View ArticleConservative MP’s bill to repeal Section 13 moves to committee
Canada 2011 Federal Election Results Andrew sent me this article from the Chronicle Herald. Excerpt: To protect freedom of expression in Canada, sometimes you need a majority government in Ottawa....
View ArticleCanadian government to limit environmentalist obstruction of energy development
From Fox Business: the Canadians embrace federalism. Excerpt: The Canadian government released details Tuesday of its plan to dramatically streamline reviews for big energy and mining projects, capping...
View ArticleConservative government reforms public sector pensions in Canada
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper (evil!) From the National Post. Excerpt: Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says planned changes to the pension plan for members of Parliament won’t take effect until...
View ArticleTwo Muslim immigrants arrested in Canada for Al-Qaeda-inspired terrorist plot
Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Afghanistan The CBC reports on a blockbuster story from Canada. (H/T Blazing Cat Fur) Excerpt: Canadian police say they have arrested two men and thwarted a plot to...
View ArticleCrime in Canada reaches lowest level in 40 years due to Conservative party...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper From the National Post. Excerpt: New figures show Canada’s crime rate dipped to its lowest level in 40 years last year, the very year the federal government enacted some...
View ArticleObama administration betrays Christian pastor imprisoned in Iran
Letitia posted this article by Jay Sekulow from Fox News. Excerpt: In its quest for a “deal” with the hostile, jihadist Iranian regime, The Obama administration has thrown an American Christian, Saeed...
View ArticleConservative Party of Canada on track to deliver budget surplus in 2015
Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Conservative Party) Story from Yahoo News about the results delivered by the Conservative Party of Canada. Note: To understand the numbers in the article, simply multiple...
View ArticleBurger King leaves U.S. 35% corporate tax rate for Canada’s 15% corporate tax...
Prime Minister Stephen Harper: all your base are belong to us! Wow, I really hate Burger King, but this latest move leaves me very confused. Maybe I have to eat there now? The Chicago Tribune reports...
View ArticleObama calls Ottawa, Canada terrorist attack by a Muslim “senseless violence”
Well, at least he didn’t call it “workplace violence”, like he did the attack on Fort Hood by Major Nidal Hasan. Story from the Washington Times. Excerpt: A gunman who reportedly was a recent convert...
View ArticleMulcair and Trudeau want convicted Canadian terrorists to retain citizenship
Prime Minister Stephen Harper This is from the National Post, one of Canada’s two national newspapers. Excerpt: The government used its new power to revoke the citizenship of convicted terrorists for...
View ArticleCanadian federal election is today: please vote for Stephen Harper!
Prime Minister Stephen Harper I try to keep up with elections in the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, so I know that there is a Canadian election today. I want to encourage all my Canadian...
View ArticlePro-lifers need to vote wisely, or they may strengthen abortion
Canada Election 2015: Socialists in red, Communists in Orange, Conservatives in blue Here is an article written by a Canadian named Mike Schouten in Life News. He wrote this prior to the Canadian...
View ArticleSupreme Court sides with Conservative Party against price-fixing monopoly
Prime Minister Stephen Harper Story here from the Vancouver Sun. (H/T Andrew) Excerpt: The Canadian Wheat Board cannot spend money on advocacy to protect its monopoly, following a Supreme Court of...
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