Tuesday October 07, 2008

Quebec's young Liberals are being thrown to the wolves
How can any candidate win with almost no help from the national party?

I could use a liquidity injection
Must our Prime Minister be so comatose about the financial situation?

A real-estate gold mine loses lustre in nasty times
Add one more to the list of worthy initiatives bushwhacked by vengeful real-estate reality. Could there be a less auspicious time to launch a powerful new public corporation with a mandate to ''unlock value'' in city-owned real estate?

Harper's silence on Ontario is hurting Tories' chances
The Conservatives' popularity in Ontario is sinking like a stone, perhaps about as fast as the provincial economy, and yet Stephen Harper is unrelentingly remote from the province that could make or break his majority.

Offer to black out Right to Play sponsor may yet bring VANOC, charity together
General Motors lost a few customers on the weekend over the news that the charitable organization Right to Play had been banned from the 2010 Winter Games because one of its main sponsors was a corporate rival of the North American car giant.

Line dancing in Calgary
Keenan skips around questions of who will play with whom and where on opening night

Listeners tune out during dog days of summer
One big reason for lower market shares was Beijing Summer Olympics

Fines for Stampeders
Two players and assistant coach will pay league office for confronting official

Emerging markets pounded in global rout
Investors flee to safer havens as commodities take a hammering







