Posts Tagged ‘Carol Hughes’
Written by NDP Media on 02 April 2015
With Iraqi children freezing to death in Turkish refugee camps, Canada has to ask itself if committing to military action that inspires militants and contributes to regional instability is the right course of action for our country. It isn’t a matter of if we can do the job or how much people [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 16 March 2015
OTTAWA, ON – L’accord selon lequel Railmark Canada s’occupera des services voyageurs de l’Algoma Central Railway pourrait assurer le service des trains de passagers pendant des années, selon la députée d’Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing, Mme Carol Hughes. « C’est un pas dans la bonne [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 16 March 2015
OTTAWA, ON – The agreement that will have Railmark Canada take control of passenger services on the Algoma-Central-Railway has great potential to keep passenger trains running for years, according to Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. “This is a positive development, but it is [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 10 March 2015
OTTAWA, ON – Despite government claims that they are responding to the rash of train derailments, nothing will change if they allow railways to regulate themselves, according to Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing MP, Carol Hughes. Hughes raised the recent derailments in Northern Ontario during [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 07 March 2015
Quand le gouvernement invoque le manque d’argent pour prendre des mesures sensées comme d’appuyer les services voyageurs à bord de l’ACR (pendant que les parties intéressées trouvent une solution permanente à une crise engendrée par le gouvernement), il conviendrait de penser à son [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 07 March 2015
When the government cries broke when faced with common sense decisions like supporting passenger services on the ACR (while stakeholders find a permanent solution to a government-created crisis) that claim should be viewed through the lens of their huge and growing advertising budget. Spending [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 04 March 2015
Elliot Lake – Les difficultés que vivent les familles et les communautés qui comptent parmi elles des personnes souffrant de l’ensemble des troubles causés par l’alcoolisation fœtale (ETCAF) sont loin de constituer uniquement des problèmes de santé et de budget, selon la députée [Read more]
Written by NDP Media on 08 February 2015
I saw an interesting editorial cartoon where workmen are dismantling a house to build a fence. The fence is labelled security and the house is labelled privacy. It cuts to the heart of the debate on new anti-terrorism legislation that is being rushed through parliament as the Conservatives [Read more]
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
An Oxfam report this week showed that one percent of the world’s population will control half of the world’s wealth by 2016. It also explained how the world’s richest 80 individuals have as much wealth as the poorest 3.5 billion people combined. While this may sound inevitable, given [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 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 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 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]