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Written by NDP News Release
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Wednesday, 14 December 2005 |
NDP Finance Critic Graham Steele is calling on the government to reinstate full funding to the Keep the Heat program after learning the amount budgeted for the program has been reduced by $7 million in Wednesday's budget update.
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Written by Frank Corbett
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Wednesday, 14 December 2005 |
Cape Breton Centre MLA Frank Corbett says that he is pleased that coal will be mined again in Cape Breton, but he wants assurances from the Department of Environment and Labour that it will make sure that Xstrata observes the highest occupational health and safety standards. Corbett says that he would have been more confident of a safe
operation if one of the two local bidders had been successful in securing the Donkin contract.
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Written by Graham Steele
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Wednesday, 14 December 2005 |
Late Tuesday afternoon, the Nova Scotia Supreme Court ordered the Minister of Community Services, David Morse, to appoint an independent advisory committee to review how the Children and Family Services Act is working in Nova Scotia.
The court case was brought by Marilyn Dey and Linda Youngson, two Halifax-area women with a personal interest in the workings of the child-protection system.
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Written by NDP
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005 |
NDP Leader Jack Layton gave an impassioned defence of Canada’s single-payer public health care system today, and spelled out some tough new measures to protect it.
Layton was speaking in Regina with Shirley Douglas, daughter of medicare founder Tommy Douglas, and Kathleen Connors, Chair of the Canadian Health Coalition and immediate past-president of the Canadian Federation of Nurses’ Unions.
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Written by CPC
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005 |
Conservative leader Stephen Harper today announced that a new Conservative government will significantly increase defence spending as part of a “Canada First” defence strategy. Part of the new strategy will involve enhancing Canadian sovereignty by acquiring strategic lift aircraft, creating a new airborne battalion, and doubling the size of Canada’s Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART).
“Our Forces stand on guard for us, both at home and around the world. So we must stand up for them,” said Harper. “The men and women who put on the uniform of Canada must have the tools they need to protect themselves and do their job.”
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Written by LPC
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005 |
Prime Minister Paul Martin while speaking today to students at Princess Margaret Secondary School in Surrey, B.C. said a Liberal government is committed to preventing the spread of gun crime in Canadian communities.
On December 8th, Prime Minister Paul Martin announced the Liberal Party’s “Canada Handgun Ban and Safer Communities Strategy” – a plan to get handguns off our streets.
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Written by Wire Services
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005 |
In a report released today, the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network called for the federal government to decriminalize the practice of prostitution and ensure that the health, safety and human rights to which all people in Canada are entitled are also shared by sex workers.
"Having sex for money is legal in Canada, but sex workers can't do their jobs legally or safely because of this country's outdated criminal laws," said Glenn Betteridge, Senior Policy Analyst and principal author of the report. "These laws, and the way in which they're enforced, push sex workers into situations that put their health and safety at risk, and leave them open to stigma and discrimination, violence, and possible exposure to HIV."
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Written by Wire Services
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005 |
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Name of Product: Bounce Bounce Baby! Door Jumpers
Distributor: Kids II Inc., of Alpharetta, Ga.
Hazard: The plastic clamp that attaches the jumper seat to a door frame can break, which can cause the unit to fall to the floor. This poses an injury hazard to young children.
Incidents/Injuries: Kids II has received 9 reports of the clamp breaking with 3 reports of bruises.
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Written by Wire Services
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005 |
The Student Vote program, a non-partisan educational initiative will provide students under the voting age with a chance to vote in this federal election. 2645 schools have registered for the program from every province and territory. 500,000 ballots have been requested for the national Student Vote election week occurring from January 16th to 20th, 2006, where students will vote on the real candidates in their school's
riding.
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Written by NDP News Release
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Tuesday, 13 December 2005 |
NDP House Leader and Justice Critic Kevin Deveaux is calling on the Minister of Justice, Michael Baker, to release his Department's plans for protecting Nova Scotians who have personal information stored in American data bases - accessible to the Federal Bureau of Investigation under section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. Last Thursday negotiators for the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives agreed to extend the major powers of the Patriot Act which were due to expire at the end of the month, for another four years. Under the Patriot Act U.S. security agencies can access individual personal information contained in records held by any American-based company.
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