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Western Standard: sneak preview Monday, April 23, 2007 Here's a sneak preview of our new issue, just off the presses this morning: cover ; column ; story . Normally we hold back on publishing to the Internet so that our home subscribers get the good stuff first. But this is a special case: one of the subjects of our cover story, an MP named Mark Holland, has threatened us with a lawsuit if we keep talking about him and the Liberal theft of Conservative personnel files. That's called libel chill -- an attempt to bully journalists (including bloggers) so...

Harper appointee under fire from Dion Andrew Mayeda, CanWest News Service Published: Thursday, April 12, 2007 OTTAWA - The Harper government was accused yesterday of launching a political "witch hunt" against the Liberals after naming a former separatist politician to investigate the federal government's past use of public opinion polling. Daniel Paille was a Cabinet minister under the Parti Quebecois government of former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau in the mid-1990s. In his new capacity as "independent advisor," Mr. Paille will probe the federal government's polling practices from 1990 to March 31, 2003. In announcing the appointment, Public Works Minister...

Lafleur to remain behind bars cnews.canoe.ca April 6, 2007 MONTREAL (CP) - Ad man Jean Lafleur will remain incarcerated until at least next Thursday on 35 fraud charges related to the federal sponsorship scandal. Lafleur's bail proceeding was postponed Friday until next Thursday to give his lawyer time to get copies of statements from hundreds of potential witnesses in the case. "We don't have all the information necessary to proceed," his lawyer, Jean-Claude Hebert, told the judge. Jean Lafleur, former owner of Lafleur Communicationand Marketing, prepares to start his last day of testimony at the Gomery commission in Montreal,...

Time to drink up and go home: Liberals ignore the obvious like a belligerent drunk after closing The Edmonton Journal Sun 15 May 2005 Page: A14 Section: Opinion Byline: Lorne Gunter Faithful readers of this column will know I have been cool to the idea of the Conservatives pulling the plug on Parliament sooner rather than later. But my concerns against doing so have all been strategic. This week, however, the Liberals lost the constitutional right to govern. They remain in power in violation of the principles that govern our particular brand of democracy -- Westminster parliamentary. Each day...