Take The House's 2012 political quiz

It's that time of year again! Time to test how much you remember about what happened this year in political news. Grab a pen and paper and take the quiz at home while the CBC's National Affairs Editor Chris Hall, the CBC's political blogger and...

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Hunger-striking chief calls for action amidst health concerns

On First Nations Chief Theresa Spence's 20th day of her politically motivated hunger strike, Canadians and politicians answered her plea for solidarity for her cause to secure a meeting between First Nations leaders, Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and...

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Canada mulls military training mission in West Africa

The Harper government is examining whether to dispatch Canadian troops to help train an African force whose purpose would be to take back a vast swath of Mali from an off-shoot of al-Qaeda. Defence Minister Peter MacKay, speaking in Halifax Sunday,...

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Kyoto climate change treaty sputters to a sorry end

The controversial and ineffective Kyoto Protocol's first stage comes to an end today, leaving the world with 58 per cent more greenhouse gases than in 1990, as opposed to the five per cent reduction its signatories sought. From the beginning, the treaty...

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'Fiscal cliff' talks go down to the wire

Markets appeared Monday to be taking in stride the prospect that U.S. politicians will fail to agree a budget deal in time to avoid automatic tax increases and spending cuts that many economists think could tilt the world's largest economy back into...

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Powering up the Speaker of the House

Two former Liberal MPs and a former law clerk of the House of Commons, weary of what they see as a dysfunctional House of Commons, are working on a proposal to give more power to the Speaker. Former MPs Paul Szabo and Derek Lee, along with Rob Walsh,...

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First Nations chief rejects minister's call to end hunger strike

One of the two aboriginal MPs in the Conservative cabinet has called on Chief Theresa Spence to abandon her fast aimed at securing a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, who is Inuk, joined other federal...

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Haiti travel warning issued by U.S., Canadians cautioned

The U.S. State Department is warning against travel to Haiti because of recent reports of killings, robbery and infectious disease, and Ottawa is also urging Canadians to "exercise a high degree of caution" because of high crime rates in various parts...

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Obama warns of 'self-inflicted wound' to U.S. economy

U.S. Senate leaders groped for a last-minute compromise Saturday to avoid middle-class tax increases and possibly prevent deep spending cuts at the dawn of the new year as President Barack Obama warned that failure could mean a "self-inflicted wound...

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Take The House's 2012 political quiz

It's that time of year again! Time to test how much you remember about what happened this year in political news. Grab a pen and paper and take the quiz at home while the CBC's National Affairs Editor Chris Hall, the CBC's political blogger and...

21.16 | 0 komentar | Read More

Powering up the Speaker of the House

Two former Liberal MPs and a former law clerk of the House of Commons, weary of what they see as a dysfunctional House of Commons, are working on a proposal to give more power to the Speaker. Former MPs Paul Szabo and Derek Lee, along with Rob Walsh,...

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Neil Macdonald: Fiscal showdown at the U.S. Congress

Americans, it would appear, are about to give the world another lesson in their self-proclaimed exceptionalism. What other democratic nation's leaders, after all, would deliberately design a fiscal disaster and aim the country's economy straight for...

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First Nations chief rejects minister's call to end hunger strike

One of the two aboriginal MPs in the Conservative cabinet has called on Chief Theresa Spence to abandon her fast aimed at securing a meeting with Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, who is Inuk, joined other federal...

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Neanderthal genome may hold clues to human survival

It's the time of year when people take stock of the past 12 months, and make resolutions for the New Year. That's kind of what Svante Paabo is doing — but the Swedish archeological geneticist is looking over a time span of 30,000 years. He's almost...

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U.S. Senate leaders rush to assemble deal to avoid fiscal cliff

Senate leaders rushed late Friday to assemble a last-ditch agreement to avoid middle-class tax increases and possibly delay steep spending cuts in an urgent attempt to find common ground after weeks of post-election gridlock, after an impatient President...

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