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When British Prime Minister Theresa May gave her traditional New Year's speech on December 31, one line -- actually, just one word -- jumped out at me. May spoke of the importance of “taking a balanced approach to government spending, so we get our debt falling but can also invest in the things that matter -- our schools, our police and our precious NHS.” Yes, “precious.” She actually described the National Health Service as precious! Now, one might easily forgive her for describing, say, Britain's finest doctors and nurses as -- oh, I don't know -- how about “treasured”? Or...

Theresa May is to announce a war on plastic waste, with proposed policies including plastics-free aisles in supermarkets and a tax on takeaway containers. The prime minister will set out her ambition to eliminate all avoidable plastic waste within 25 years in a major speech on Thursday in which she will promise the UK will lead internationally on environmental issues. But campaign groups said the aspirations would need to be backed up by legislation. They also warned that leaving the EU risked weakening environmental protections, and called for the government to promise it would not water down green standards in...

The US should do more to tackle far-Right extremism, Theresa May has suggested as she issued a stinging rebuke to President Donald Trump over his decision to retweet anti-Muslim propaganda. Speaking in Jordan the Prime Minister said none of her Cabinet ministers would ever repeat messages posted by Britain First, just days after the President did.

Garth Turner suspended from Tory caucus Last Updated: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 | 12:42 PM ET CBC News Ontario MP Garth Turner has been suspended from the federal Conservative caucus for criticizing the prime minister. Turner will be sitting as an independent. Government House leader Rahim Jaffer said Wednesday that Turner was ousted on the recommendation of the party's Ontario caucus after he made one too many attacks on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and too often violated caucus confidentiality. Jaffer said the suspension was a long time coming and the votes were unanimous. Turner, who represents the Halton riding, has...

GARTH TURNER NEWS RELEASE - AUGUST 15, 2006 Religious Right Targets Garth Turner Aims to defeat outspoken MP in riding nomination over gay marriage Opponents of same-sex marriage are targeting outspoken Halton MP Garth Turner for defeat in a Conservative nomination battle set for next month. Members of religious groups held one organizational meeting in Milton this week and are seeking a candidate to oppose Turner and who would vote to open the divisive marriage issue. "I can't say I am surprised by this," Turner says, "since I have been critical for months of those in the Righteous Right who...

Our new Prime Minister, Paul Martin, has finally ascended the throne he has so long desired for many a year. Jean Chretien is now gone, and the Liberal party, guided by Martin, will take Canada further to the political right than the centrist or soft left liberals would say amen to at this stage in the Canadian journey. Is it wise and prudential, the thoughtful might ask, at a point in Canadian history when the Liberal party will swing further to the right, to create a party that is further right than Paul Martin and the Liberal party? Is such...

Even the most fact-averse, red-white-and-blue groupie of George Bush has to be wondering; what the heck's going on here? A few weeks back, I had Pat Buchanan on my radio show. Pat, who has some strange toys of his own in the political attic, declared that the president was a radical. Not a conservative, not a Republican, a radical. Canuckistan Pat must have choked on his Cheerios when the president summoned Congress back from holidays to pass a new law expressly to help "save" poor Terri Schiavo, a rescue 20 courts had already ruled the brain-dead woman did not even...