Canadian News Roundup

Proof that some politicians crave power, not democracy: Alberta could lose three of its federal Conservative MPs, who feel slighted because they were not given federal cabinet posts, if Manning makes a run for the provincial Tory leadership. Which part of "getting elected to serve their constituents at the federal level" don't they get?

Embattled David Emerson calls his critics "locusts" who "descend" on him. He obviously thinks the apocalypse is upon him. Once again, we have another (new) Conservative who doesn't understand the democratic right to free speech. I wonder if that term was approved by the PMOs office, since all Tory MPs must have all of their communications vetted by Dear Father.

Why is CanWest investing in the Turkish radio market? That's what some investors are wondering.

In Afghanistan on Monday, a bomb blast went off near a Canadian reconstruction base. No word on casualties yet. I'm not sure how much of a stomach the Canadian public has for news about how our soldiers continue to be placed in harm's way day after day in a war that the US has largely abandoned. The latest poll numbers show a very strong split and I would assume that the more bad news we hear, the larger the numbers against Canada's presence will become.

Following the Good Friday battle between the Taliban and Afghan police officers, in which Canadian troops were called in late to assist, it is now being reported that some of the police may have been the victims of friendly fire.

Everybody and their dog wants to run for the leadership of the Liberal party.

According to Decima Research, 40% of Liberal voters approve of Stephen Harper's government. They're obviously on heavy medication.

Here's an interesting CanWest News poll revelation:

Canadians are becoming increasingly uneasy about mixing religion and politics and they'd be more likely to vote for a party lead by an atheist or a Muslim than an evangelical Christian, suggests a new poll.
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The firm conducted its telephone survey with 814 Canadians and 768 Americans on April 11-12.

I'm not quite sure why CanWest decided to include the views of Americans...