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Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty was in town Thursday, waxing lyrical about health care during a speech to the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce. But he still can’t find a few minutes to chat with a terminally ill woman — Lisa Nancarrow. She’s an Ottawa woman who lives in his riding and who was denied out-of-province treatment. […]
MoreOntario PC leader Tim Hudak was in full campaign mode Wednesday as he addressed the Canadian Club of Ottawa during a luncheon. From HST to healthcare, his speech focused heavily on attacking Ontario Liberal premier Dalton McGuinty. “The McGuinty team probably has their next round of tax increases already planned. They just don’t want to […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/2011/04/26/candidates-talk-housing-during-lunch-at-shelter Marty Blair stopped into the Shepherds of Good Hope for a hot lunch Tuesday. “I’ve been on the street all night last night,” he said. Blair isn’t alone. In 2010 more than 7,000 people in Ottawa used homeless shelters. “But the most staggering thing was that 832 families actually found themselves in […]
MoreHighly paid local bureaucrats are sucking up too much in provincial health-care dollars, an Ottawa MPP says. Each of the 14 health networks across Ontario spent more than $1 million on executive salaries, according to Lisa MacLeod, Conservative MPP for Nepean-Carleton. The number of executives in the Ottawa-area Champlain Local Health Integration Network earning more […]
MoreCall it an UnPC move by a PC member. The federal incumbent for Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke is apologizing to Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff after tweeting a comment likening his name to Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi. An 84-character post on Conservative incumbent Cheryl Gallant’s Twitter page reads: “@M_Ignatieff, sorry about remark on day 1. No place in debate […]
MoreScrambled eggs, toast, breakfast sausage, and a side of blue signs kicked off the Conservative campaign in Ottawa’s west end Saturday morning. Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod and Ottawa-West Nepean federal incumbent John Baird riled up the crowd as fellow MP Pierre Poilievre launched his campaign for re-election in Nepean-Carleton at Greenfield’s Pub in Barrhaven. More […]
MoreSEE VIDEO http://www.ottawasun.com/news/ottawa/2011/03/25/17757476.html#/news/ottawa/2011/03/25/pf-17757476.html When Liberal incumbent David McGuinty knocks on Gabe Thirlwall’s door, he just might get the finger. The Ottawa South resident is the puppet master and artist behind the Political Circus finger puppets. “Oh, I have a David McGuinty puppet. He is a very slow seller,” she said. Right in time for the […]
More[XAVIER FAMILY PHOTO] Mary Xavier-Pierce (left) grew up in Sri Lanka. “We had to flee so suddenly, we didn’t really pack much but grabbed what we needed and left overnight,” she says. The alleged collapse of the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka yesterday has members of the Sinhalese community celebrating. “There was a sense of […]
MoreAn incentive program by the Saskatchewan government is offering Ontario graduates twenty thousand dollars to relocate. Politicians are in Toronto to pitch their province. Kelly Roche and Clinton Hosannah were in the scrum.
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