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Weekly Recap

A convenient archive of everything that happened this week, and every past week, in Canadian politics and news.

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Snow in Calgary: Is it Jim Prentice’s Fault?

This week, meteorologists at Environment Canada put their lives on the line by notifying Calgarians that fall was canceled. Residents were told that C-town would be skipping straight to winter with 5 cm of snow...

Parks Canada (Maybe) Found Lost Franklin Expedition

“It is the most sought after shipwreck in Canadian history, if not the world,” Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq said at a press conference yesterday. Yes, there have been movies, books, plays, and songs writ...

BC High School Students Plan Walk-In

As Labour Day came and went, students across the country were herded back into schools like confused cattle into slaughterhouses. Teens from Nova Scotia to Yukon Territory crawled back into classrooms, many wis...

Mulcair Shares Dreams of Being PM in Candid Interview

Last weekend, Tom Mulcair sat down with Paul Wells for Maclean’s magazine to discuss how he just can’t wait to be king. Now I know 25% of Canadians are thinking “who the F*#@ is Tom Mulcair?” and another 40% of...

House Sends Wrong Crime Bill to the Senate

On the Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Jon Stewart occasionally thanks the comedy gods after the U.S. government does something so asinine that writing jokes about it becomes unnecessary. Well, on Friday, we to...

Stephen Harper to Deploy Canadian Armed Forces To Iraq

No, you did not read that title wrong. On Friday at a NATO summit in Wales, Prime Minister Harper announced his plan to deploy several dozen Canadian armed forces advisors into Iraq, which, over the past decade...

Brian Mulroney Says Harper is a Big Meanie

In an interview with the CBC that aired this weekend, Brian Mulroney spoke about Stephen Harper’s public criticism of Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin. He also couldn’t resist the temptation to ramble on about ...
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