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I am appalled to hear Michael McCain, the head of Maple Leaf Foods Incorporated demanding national food safety standards and the dismantling provincial standards. There are so many things wrong with this. First of all and most importantly, the best...
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Grand Prix - 54 days ago
Jack Layton attacked Liberal Minister John Manley in 2000 and 2003 for his discussion of financially aiding Canadian NHL teams in danger of moving south. He said in his convention speech that Manley would “pick up a phone to call a bank president..
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Surrey NorthIncumbent: Penny Priddy (NDP) not running againSurrey is full of ridings with history.  This one is perhaps the most nationally recognizable, as Chuck Cadman attracted national attention when he became the focus of a non-confidence vote...
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Election Questions - 81 days ago
This is Robert Stanfield, long time Premier of Nova Scotia and leader of its Conservative Party, and a leader of Canada’s Progressive Conservative Party during the Trudeau era. In provincial politics he turned a pitiful party with zero seats into..
I plan to do a weekly update of the local races in the South Fraser Valley area.  It turns out that several of the “battleground” ridings of this election are ridings I live in or drive through every day.  I thought people might be...
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