http://www.ndp.ca/page/6139 Sun 3 Feb 2008  

TORONTO - New Democrats are deeply concerned about the escalation of the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza and the recurring violations of international humanitarianand human rights law. Innocent civilians in Gaza have become victims of the Israeli government’s collective punishment. Civilians are also suffering from ongoing rocket attacks.  Urgent measures are required to ensure that all Palestinians and Israelis have their human rights respected, including access to basic living necessities and human security. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press August 22, 2007

Manitoba has a new plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions along with six U.S. states and British Columbia. Premier Gary Doer said today the province has committed to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by 15 per cent below 2005 levels before 2020. (Keep reading…)

ActUpInSask.org,

16 July 2007

In June 2007 Saskatchewan’s NDP government released its Energy and Climate Change Plan. The goals set out were far reaching, given the history of this provincial government on the issue. Greenhouse gas emissions would be stabilized by 2010. By 2020 the province would see a 32 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. By 2050 greenhouse gas emissions would be reduced by 80 percent from current levels. (1) (Keep reading…)

Canadian Dimension Magazine, July/August 2007 Issue

With his May 22 election victory, Gary Doer is only the second premier in recent Manitoba history to win three consecutive majority governments. The first was Duff Roblin back in the 1960s. In fact, since the election of Ed Schreyer in 1969, the New Democratic Party has been in office for all but a dozen years of the past four decades — nearly enough to consider the NDP Manitoba’s natural governing party. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press May 16 2007

SINCE Duff Roblin’s Progressive Conservatives ushered Manitoba politics into the modern era by defeating the old Liberal-Progressive coalition in 1958, just one premier, Roblin himself, has managed to win three consecutive majority governments. Roblin captured a minority in 1958. A year later, he elevated it to a majority and repeated the feat in 1962 and again in 1966. (Keep reading…)

Special to Canadian Dimension, April 16, 2007

Saskatchewan Premier Lorne Calvert has invited Al Gore to speak in Regina on April 23 on global warming and climate change. Calvert states that Gore’s lecture and slide show, An Inconvenient Truth, released in 2006, has become “a significant moment” in his understanding of this issue. Tickets for the performance at the Brandt Centre can be obtained from Ticketmaster for between $50 and $75; students, bleacher and standing room tickets are only $20. But, given Saskatchewan’s environmental record, a lot more than one talk is needed to change the tide. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press Thu Apr 5 2007

WEDNESDAY’S provincial budget is something of a disappointment in that it is a sample of what the New Democratic government of Gary Doer and Finance Minister Greg Selinger have been about since 1999. On the one hand, it has resisted the worst of the “let’s leave it all to the marketplace” mantra. At the same time it has lacked the courage of its own convictions. A major illustration is the way in which this budget kowtows to the tax-cutting lobby. (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press Thu Apr 5 2007

NO matter how you cut it, the 2007 provincial budget delivered yesterday at the Manitoba legislature is a triumph of thinking “inside the box.” Like a game of financial whack-a-mole, Finance Minister Greg Selinger managed to lay his hammer on all the major issues — taxation, education, health care, the environment. And there was more money for key programs (housing and clean water) and tax cuts. Even business owners, who remain the most aloof of all political constituencies in Manitoba, got a little something to be happy about with downward adjustments to corporate tax and payroll tax. (Keep reading…)

From the Prairie Dog, January 10-17 2007

Jack Layton has got himself into serious trouble. It is hard to believe that a guy like Layton, a mover and shaker in the big city politics of Toronto, could allow himself to get into this mess. I refer to the public perception that Layton is sleeping with the Harper hobgoblins. Casual, unprotected political sex with Tory hobgoblins is very, very dangerous. Almost every time you are afflicted with one, some or all of the many ITDs making the rounds out there. I am, of course, referring to “ideologically transmitted diseases.” (Keep reading…)

Winnipeg Free Press Wed Jan 10 2007

LIBERAL Leader Stephane Dion’s ultimatum to Liberal MP Wajid Khan that he couldn’t have one foot in government and the other in opposition produced the 125th seat for Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservatives last week. It also delivered the moment of truth to NDP leader Jack Layton. The New Democrats’ 29 MPs now hold the balance of power, meaning they can stop the other opposition parties from defeating Harper’s government. (Keep reading…)