PM Harper announces money for Arctic research — as long as it supports Canadian industry.
$188M for Arctic research station


PM Harper announces money for Arctic research — as long as it supports Canadian industry.

Prime Minister Harper has pledged that no Canadian troops will remain in Afghanistan after the end of the current training mission in 2014. But does he mean it?

Today we issued another challenge to Harper and his pro-war lobby. Using the government’s own report, we showed that Harper’s Defence Minister, Peter MacKay, dramatically understated the true costs of the war in Libya.

When the Balanced Refugee Reform Act came up for discussion in parliament in 2010, the then-minority Harper government was forced to compromise with the opposition parties in order to get the legislation passed. But that was then. It looks like those compromises may be about to be revisited.

Earlier this week, another Iranian nuclear scientist was assassinated in a bomb attack (Ali Akbar Dareini, “Bombs kill another nuclear scientist in Iran,” Globe and …
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