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Quebecers are heading to the polls Monday to vote in their second provincial election in as many years. The Quebec Liberal Party, the Action Démocratique du Québec and the Parti Québécois all hope to form the next government. Liberal Leader Jean Charest called a snap election this fall on the gro...
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Michael Ignatieff, who enjoys the support of a majority of Grit MPs and senators, appears poised to become federal Liberal leader at a caucus meeting Wednesday when Stéphane Dion is expected to step down. The prospect of a caucus vote installing Ontario MP Ignatieff in the top Liberal job emerged...
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More than 100 Conservative supporters gathered in Charlottetown Saturday to voice their approval of the government of Prime Minister Stephen Harper and to denounce efforts to defeat it in Parliament. The Liberals and the NDP delivered a letter to Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean last week saying Harper h...
12/07/2008
The trees were thick with ice, electric poles were down across the province and hundreds of Islanders were left in the dark and cold, but Barb Mullally didn't blink an eye when she got the call for aid. As a disaster management trainer and co-ordinator, last winter's ice storm was just the kind o...
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Gas prices continue to plummet on Prince Edward Island.The Island Regulatory and Appeals Commission announced the following petroleum pricing decisions, effective 12:01 a.m., Saturday:- Gasoline prices will decrease by 2.5 cents per litre (cpl); - Furnace and stove oil prices will decrease by 5.0...
12/07/2008
CALGARY - More and more people have been streaming into bankruptcy trustee Bruce Alger's office in recent months, as a slowdown in the all-important energy sector begins to weigh on the livelihoods of everyday Albertans.Not long ago, Alberta was considered Canada's economic juggernaut, as torrid ...
12/07/2008
P.E.I. could learn a thing or two from Iceland in giving Islanders more cause to remain in the province to work and raise their families, says a local historian."I'm very impressed with Iceland as a model of a dynamic, small island culture in society,'' said Harry Baglole, former director of the ...
05/07/2008
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The Red Cross on P.E.I. is now accepting donations for victims of the cyclone in Burma.On Tuesday authorities in Burma made a plea for foreign aid. Cyclone Nargis struck Burma, also known as Myanmar, on Saturday. Twenty-two thousand people have been confirmed dead, and tens of thousands more are ...
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The Atlantic Beef Products plant in Albany, P.E.I. lost $550,000 in April, and has lost $3.5 million since last June.Agriculture Minister Neil LeClair believes fortunes at the plant can still improve. (CBC) Losses at the plant had been improving. Early last year it was losing $500,000 a month, bu...
05/07/2008
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's oil minister has predicted the price of oil will rise to $200 per barrel in the near future.Oil prices jumped to a record near $124 a barrel for the first time this week.Traders at the New York Mercantile Exchange deal in crude oil options on Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Oil pric...
05/07/2008