Posts Tagged ‘Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing’
Written by admin on 30 January 2015
As oil prices slump and take the Canadian dollar along for the ride the question of how budget projections that predicted a modest surplus can be maintained is the flavour of the month in Ottawa. Despite negative indicators the government is holding firm to its projections, but has also moved the [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 23 January 2015
Oxfam signale dans son rapport publié cette semaine que la moitié des richesses mondiales seront détenues par 1 % de la population d’ici 2016 et que les 80 personnes les plus riches possèdent autant que les 3,5 milliards des personnes les plus pauvres mis ensemble. Même si la situation [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 16 January 2015
On nous dit souvent d’éviter de mettre tous nos œufs dans le même panier et de compter nos poussins avant leur éclosion. Quelqu’un aurait dû rappeler au gouvernement fédéral ces maximes liées à la volaille alors que celui-ci s’apprête à dépenser l’excédent reposant sur des [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 16 January 2015
We are often told not to put all our eggs in one basket and not to count our chickens until they hatch. Someone should have reminded the federal government about those poultry related maxims as they set out to spend a surplus based on assumptions which included oil trading at a high price. Now [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 11 January 2015
Cette semaine, le premier ministre a remplacé le ministre des Anciens Combattants, qui était en difficulté, une décision qui, de l’avis de bien des gens, était inévitable et aurait même dû être prise il y a longtemps. Après des années de gaffes, de mauvaise presse et de méfiance [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 11 January 2015
The Prime Minster replaced the embattled Minister of Veteran’s Affairs this week in a move that many feel was both inevitable and overdue. After years of gaffes, bad press, and general distrust the relationship between Canada’s veterans and Stephen Harper’s government was at an all-time low [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 07 December 2014
Les Canadiens des zones rurales qui s’inquiètent du fait que le gouvernement n’a pas su améliorer les services Internet à large bande dans leurs régions peuvent maintenant ajouter à leurs préoccupations les effets potentiellement négatifs du projet de ré-attribution de fréquences [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 07 December 2014
“Broadband access should be getting better instead of being threatened” says Hughes Rural Canadians concerned about the government’s failure to improve broadband internet in those parts of the country can add the potential negative impacts of an Industry Canada proposal that will [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 30 November 2014
Vous vous souvenez peut-être que des fonds devant servir à assurer la sécurité de la frontière ont en fait été utilisés pour construire des pavillons de jardin dans la circonscription de Tony Clement dans le cadre des préparatifs des réunions du G8 et du G20 qui se sont finalement [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 30 November 2014
You may remember how money earmarked to secure the border actually built gazebos in Tony Clement’s riding in preparation for the G8/G20 meetings before those chin-wags were ultimately moved to Toronto. At the time the story was eclipsed by the $2 million fake lake in the media centre for the [Read more]
Written by admin on 30 November 2014
Published by CBC’s The National youtube channel, November 24th, 2014 Ottawa shooting: Federal security chiefs warned days before attack A top-level federal memo warning of a potential “violent act of terrorism in Canada” was distributed by the prime minister’s staff five [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 08 November 2014
La nouvelle banque alimentaire de l’organisme Manitoulin Family Resources ouvrira au cours du mois. Si je suis triste parce que je serai à Ottawa et que je ne pourrai assister aux célébrations de cet événement, le fait que dans un pays aussi riche que le nôtre, le nombre de Canadiens qui [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 08 November 2014
Manitoulin Family Resources is set to open their newly constructed food bank this month. While I am saddened that I will be in Ottawa and unable to join their celebrations for this achievement, I am more than a little frustrated that in a country as rich as ours the number of Canadians who rely [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 17 October 2014
OTTAWA, ON – Soupir de soulagement pour les partisans des Canadiens de Montréal qui habitent dans le Nord : les parties de leur équipe seront télédiffusées en français dans leur région. Au moment où Ginette Reno entonnait l’hymne national lors du match d’ouverture, la nouvelle se [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 17 October 2014
OTTAWA, ON – The traditional northern fan-base for the Montreal Canadiens are breathing a sigh of relief now that the team’s French language regional broadcasts will be available in the area. As Ginette Reno sang the anthem for the Habs home opener, news was spreading through the north that [Read more]