Following the outcome of yesterday's Quebec election and  the strong showing of the Action démocratique party, a lot of people are going around celebrating the fact that the PQ finished 3rd and that 2 "federalist" parties now govern Quebec. For those of you who think the ADQ is a "federalist" party, consider that the party's platform includes:

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Since LJ is a blogging community, and since this specific LJ community is dedicated to Canadian politics, and since I'm always on the lookout for new reading material, I thought it might be interesting if we shared some of our favourite Canadian political blogs with each other ( Read more... )

Hey, that's me again with posts on personal appearance of canadian politicians. This time Diane Finley - freshly appointed Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. Posing on CIC website in dark sunglasses. http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/index.htmlRead more... )

Does anyone know where I can get a copy of past throne speaches?

I need to look over them for a class I am taking

To all the social democrats out there, you might be interested in getting involved in this initiative. I came across it via this blog post, or you can proceed directly to the wiki and set up an account. Not much going on yet, but if more people learn about it and get involved, one assumes things will start to happen!

Hi! I am a future newcomer to Canada (supposed to entry in March), but I already feel involved in your political life. I just like to feel involved :) Anyways. I consider myself conservative, but want to become acquainted with all political powers. And here I face with a question - what is the difference between Liberals and NDP? I browsed both ( Read more... )

Hello,

I was wondering if anyone here might know where I'd be able to view (or download) clips of the Liberal Leadership Convention (what's been going on thus far). I'm in the U.S.  and cannot view it on TV. I found snippets on CBC.ca, but I'd like a bit more...

Thanks,
K

It turns out Americans really DO hate us.

Wow.

So, I might be a luddite of sorts, for not knowing about this sooner, but I found this today, and thought it was a nifty internet widget. It's the CBC stream of it's news programs on the Internet, Including the National. It also plays in realplayer, FullScreen.

I thought it was nifty, and certainly politic.

CBC Internet NewsAnd, in other news, ( Read more... )

This post is inspired by the capitalism vs socialism debate taking place in allhatnocattle's post on Caledonia. This is how one of my politics professors defines Classical conservatism, liberalism and socialism when it comes to money ( Read more... )