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Canada’s strategic voters lean Liberal as vote nears

October 17, 2015 admin conservative, conservatives, julie-gordon, lead-the-ruling, liberal, liberals, organizers, prime-minister, stephen-harper, support, the-center-left, their-support, vote-together

By Julie Gordon VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Organizers of two key strategic voting campaigns in Canada are throwing most of their support to the center-left Liberals, who lead the ruling Conservatives in polls and may also benefit from a bandwagon effect in the final days of the tight campaign. Both Leadnow, a non-profit group funded through individual donations, and website strategicvoting.ca have seen support grow as sentiment against Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his 10-year-old government builds and Liberal leader Justin Trudeau opens up a lead in opinion polls.

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Canadian PM’s comments on Muslim veil set off Twitter flurry

March 12, 2015 creative conservatives, house, inside-their, mumbai, online-retailer, said-the-niqab, shireen-ahmed, social, sort-out, tech-majors, the-country, toronto, toronto-twitter, uses-the-handle

By Julie Gordon VANCOUVER (Reuters) – Twitter users turned to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper for tongue-in-cheek fashion advice on Wednesday, the day after he said the niqab, a face covering veil worn by some Muslims, was rooted in an “anti-women” culture. Using the hashtag #dresscodePM, users of the social media service criticized Harper, who made the comment as part of an ongoing push by the ruling Conservatives to ban face coverings in Canadian citizenship ceremonies

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Canada security bill provides new powers to combat terror

January 30, 2015 creative conservative, conservatives, country, intelligence, islamist, make-it-easier, make-preventive, market, news-conference, popular-hedge, price-should, prime, prime-minister, stephen, wilmington

By Andrea Hopkins RICHMOND HILL, Ontario (Reuters) – New anti-terror legislation in Canada would make it a crime to call for attacks on the country and give a much larger role to the government's main spy agency. The bill introduced by the Conservative government on Friday would give the spy agency, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, the ability to disrupt attacks by interfering with travel plans or communications, for example. The bill, whose passage is assured because the Conservatives have a majority in Parliament, would also make it easier for police to make preventive arrests.