Speculation has consumers seeing red Revolution in Africa has driven up the price of fuel all across Canada because….well because of no good reason. Prices at the pump jumped by a dime in a day last week based on speculation. Speculation that supplies could be interrupted as a result of [Read more]
OTTAWA, ON –New Democrats today called on the Conservative government to stop just paying lip service to Canada’s hard working farmers and to start taking real action to help. In a speech to the Canadian Federation of Agriculture today, New Democrat MP Carol Hughes outlined her party’s [Read more]
Pour mesurer à quelle vitesse la technologie peut transformer une société, il suffit de songer à l’internet. Il y a à peine 20 ans, l’internet était une nouveauté qu’on regardait avec une certaine méfiance. Le voilà aujourd’hui dans presque tous les secteurs de la société. Dans [Read more]
To gain an appreciation of how fast technology can transform a society, one has to look no further than the internet. In less than 20 years the web has gone from being relatively new and viewed with some suspicion to permeating nearly every corner of society. In those early days, the only way to [Read more]
le 3 février LA POLITIQUE DE PROTECTION DE LA VIE PRIVÉE DES CONSERVATEURS : TOUT SAUF COHÉRENTE, SELON LA DÉPUTÉE HUGHES OTTAWA, ON – Les Canadiens se demandent si le gouvernement conservateur cherche à protéger leur vie privée ou plutôt la sacrifier, la législation faisant emprunter [Read more]
L’Agence du revenu du Canada pourrait faire partie de la solution en ce qui concerne les problèmes de paperasserie administrative des petites entreprises S’il y a une plainte que j’entends de la part de tous les membres du secteur de nos petites entreprises, c’est le besoin d’alléger la [Read more]
Santé Canada se réveille enfin après avoir honteusement tergiversé pendant dix ans. Au rayon des bonnes nouvelles, les coffres à jouets de nos enfants contiendront un danger de moins pour eux maintenant que le Canada a enfin interdit – cette semaine – les produits contenant des phtalates. [Read more]
Health Canada gets it right after a decade of shame In the good news file, children in this country will face one less threat in their toy-boxes as Canada finally banned products containing phthalates this week. These chemical additives are used to soften plastic and vinyl, have often found their [Read more]
NDP Leader outlines plan to make life more affordable for Northern Ontarians “People in Elliot and across Canada will be hit hard by rising heating costs as winter sets in. Heating your home in Canada is not a luxury, especially not in Northern Ontario,” said Layton. Layton says Harper’s HST [Read more]
This week’s cabinet shuffle was little more than the proverbial shuffling of the deck chairs on the Titanic in that it did not address the pressing issues in Canada. The public relations exercise merely served as an opportunity for the government to appoint people they see as key to [Read more]
New Year’s Resolutions The turning of the calendar year is symbolic with a focus on new beginnings. Like the first day of school, a new calendar year is filled with hope for better times. Often we make resolutions that are focused on self-improvement, wishing to cast aside some element of our [Read more]
December 16, 2010 MS PATIENTS WANT LIBERATION THERAPY AVAILABLE IN CANADA OTTAWA, ON – Canadians suffering from Mulitple Sclerosis (MS) feel they shouldn’t have to leave the country to receive a hopeful new treatment. That is the message Carol Hughes delivered to the House of [Read more]
December 14, 2010 MINISTER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS NEEDS TO REPLY TO FIRST NATIONS CORRESPONDENCE AND CONCERNS carolMRP1– Click to hear Hughes OTTAWA, ON – The Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs should show some manners and reply to his correspondence according to Carol Hughes. Rising in [Read more]
GAS PRICES DRIVING UP INFLATION BAD NEWS FOR NORTHERN ONTARIO: HUGHES hughesGasPricesDec8EN1 (CLICK to hear Hughes at Question Period) hughesGasPricesDec8EN2 (CLICK to hear Hughes at Quesion Period #2) OTTAWA, ON – Gas prices are rising again and the HST is contributing to the pain [Read more]
Une vie passée au service de la population mérite notre reconnaissance – Carol Hughes J CotE9_ FR OTTAWA, ON – Jacques Côté est un exemple qui prouve à quel point une seule personne peut changer profondément une communauté. Ce retraité de la Marine a été un pilier de la communauté [Read more]
