Whatever your thoughts may be on Stephen Harper, it's hard to deny that his world is on the verge of imploding. Besides the Lisa Raitt issue (which you can read about here), there's the pressure to reform EI, the fact that the government funneled billions into GM's coffers only for ...

Since the Canadian economy started suffering, the headlines have been mostly dominated by bailout talk, unemployment numbers, and general bad financial news, that is until Prime Minister Stephen Harper went on CNN to say that he doesn't think NATO can defeat the Taliban. Needless to say, Harper's received a lot ...

No majority government again. CBC is projecting the following seat distribution for the House of Commons:

Last week I interviewed Ottawa-based entrepreneur Terry Matthews as the national spokesperson for the Canada Advanced Technology Alliance (CATA) and its "Innovation Nation" platform. While you can read his full lament for the state of that particular nation here, I wanted to highlight one comment:

It’s election time in Canada, with a Federal Election to be held on Oct. 14, 2008. If you are the investor or trader type, you can bet on the outcome by going to the Election Stock Market website hosted by the University of British Columbia (UBC).

...even though the numbers are crummy. The GDP figures released by Statistics Canada last week were widely presented as a good news/bad news proposition in the media. On the one hand, the numbers stunk — the economy grew at an annualized rate of just 0.3% in the second quarter. But, on ...