some North American Federal party leaders will waste no time hitting the campaign trail after Prime Minister Stephen Harper pays a visit to the Governor General on Sunday.

... General on Sunday. All three national party leaders will hit the road almost as soon as the writ is dropped, ending Canada's 39th Parliament.

The election call will launch a 38-day campaign toward an Oct. 14 vote. After leaving Rideau Hall in ... Comment?

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The National Party is planning to scrap a panel set up to review electoral laws.

Good Plan as NoBody Really Seems to Care anymore

Is Elections Canada Breaking the Law or Just the Spirit of it as they Cancel By-election ads Michaelle Jean

Elections Canada has cancelled all of it's ads for the by-elections that are scheduled for Monday ???

http://www.topix.net/world-leaders/michaelle-jean

Michaelle Jean

Elections Canada has cancelled all of it's ads for the by-elections that are scheduled for Monday ???

http://www.topix.net/world-leaders/michaelle-jean

... WINNIPEG Here we go again--a third election in four years featuring

another hidden Harper agenda to remake Canada in his own dark image.

Promoting real or imaginary fears of the Conservative government will be

another of the 4 other party's election ...

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as those close Liberal leader Stephane Dion say he likes to start the day with a yoga session...

Duff Conacher, head of the citizen advocacy group Democracy Watch, said Harper "has absolutely no evidence" to present to Jean that an election is necessary.

The Conservatives have not lost a confidence vote.

"She should say, 'demonstrate that the House of Commons doesn't have confidence in the Conservative govern- ment,' " Conacher said.

"The Governor General should just turn the prime minister back and say, 'No, I'm sorry, open the House and show.'

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is set to try & officially launch an election campaign

by failing to respect his own fixed-election date law for voting,

federal Liberal Leader Stephane Dion charged Friday.

Hi folks!

Elizabeth May will be holding a press conference Sunday morning in Guelph around 10:00 am (est) to kick off the Green Party's election campaigns.

Tune into your news stations to watch what is sure to be exciting coverage of the election events.

If you miss the coverage we will be filming the event and posting it to the Green Party website late Sunday night or Monday morning.

Thanks for your time and look forward to what is sure to be a great Green campaign!

John Bennett Director of Communications Green Party of Canada

maybe one of the last official duties for the now Prime Minister Stephen Harper will visit Governor General Michaelle Jean at 8:15 a.m. on Sunday and ask her to dissolve Parliament, thrusting the nation into its third federal election since 2004.

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Return home of Manitoba soldiers bittersweet as three of their own dead

The commander of Canada's latest casualties in Afghanistan reflected Thursday on the bittersweet task of welcoming home their comrades little more than a day after the three soldiers died.

Deregulation hits home as election looms

Please read and pass the word around about this & other new articles this week at www.PublicValues.ca :

FOOD SAFETY COMPROMISED BY SELF-MANAGEMENT, by Ish Theilheimer.

Proposed overhaul from Harper means more deregulation.

http://www.publicvalues.ca/ViewArticle.cfm?Ref=00140

The following article published in the Canadian Dimension explores the media concentration context in which vital issues which effect Canadians like the NAU agenda, are being systematically covered-up under the ...

Yet again the spectre of corruption looms large at city hall. There is a push to get private businesses involved in the public sphere through the disreputable path of P3s .