Liberals enter political minefield of minority government starting Monday
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OTTAWA (CP) - A chastened Liberal government will find itself relying on support from the very opponents it steamrollered for over a decade when Prime Minister Paul Martin begins steering his party through the first minority Parliament in a quarter-century.
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The government formed by the ruling coalition and led by Algirdas Brazauskas will most likely receive a mandate to start its activities as early as Tuesday afternoon.
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New Lib Dem leader includes crop of party's newest and youngest MPs in team
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OTTAWA (CP) - The federal Conservatives are girding for a same-sex battle with Paul Martin's Liberals, saying they will move to protect the traditional definition of marriage.
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OTTAWA-Paul Martin may head a minority government, but that's not stopping him from travelling the world this fall.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - The Liberal government will defiantly push ahead with plans to introduce a same-sex marriage bill next week in the face of increasingly vocal opposition from critics outside and inside the party.
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Some members of the Sunni Muslim minority in Iraq should get positions in the new government after next month's elections to protect their rights, Sens. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said Sunday. The senators also said they opposed quotas even as they favored an accommodation between the majority Shiites and the minority Sunnis.
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Nick Clegg launches campaign for Liberal Democrat leadership.
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Two men from bitterly opposed parties are set to be tapped Friday as leaders of an interim government.
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NORTH VANCOUVER, B.C. (CP) - Canada's latest Indian Affairs minister - the seventh in the past 15 years - got a rough reception Wednesday at a meeting of B.C. aboriginal leaders, despite his assertion that aboriginal people are high on the Liberal government's agenda.
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In elections for a new provincial government, moderate groups on both sides of the sectarian divide lost seats.
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Michael Howard and several members of his shadow cabinet are in danger of losing their seats at the next general election because the Lib-Dems are now the real Opposition on issues such as identity cards, ...
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If named the Liberal Party's leader this weekend, Michael Ignatieff would be a candidate to become the next prime minister.
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Home affairs spokesman Nick Clegg is expected to say he will stand for the leadership of the Lib Dems.
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VICTORIA (CP) - A backbench Liberal MLA is proposing a working zone for prostitutes in a largely downtown industrial section of her Victoria riding.
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Leftwingers in the Liberal Democrats are attempting to take on the dominant pro-market 'Orange Book' faction, warning that the party must not emulate Labour and the Tories' 'obsession' with the private sector.
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Â· Lower house debates plan for October 21 election Â· Kaczynski hoping to step up nationalist campaign.