Budget

OTTAWA - The Harper government has begun its slashing of the public sector by eliminating more than twenty percent of the National Research Council’s budget.&

OTTAWA - Today is World Oceans Day, Canadian National Clean Air Day, and both World Environment Week and Canadian Environment Week.

OTTAWA - The post-election budget, as expected, tracks with the pre-election budget with only two significant changes – $2.2 Billion for Quebec to harmonize sales taxes, and

SIDNEY - Elizabeth May, Leader of the Green Party, is calling for a national plan to help expand affordable housing.

VICTORIA - Canadian voters did not get value from the English national leaders’ debate.  A wide range of critical issues were ignored while the four party leaders focused

OTTAWA -- Much of rural Canada still does not have access to high speed Internet at home and now they will no longer have Community Access Centres to turn to.

OTTAWA -- Canada's national mechanism to analyze and promote sustainable development, created by an Act of Parliament in 1993 (National Round Table on the Economy and the Environment Act) by former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney has faced steady down-grading under Prime Minister Harper.