Working families need care. They need care that is regulated, safe and secure, and that's what we're building here. Don't give people C$25 a day to blow on beer and popcorn.

Your actions shouldn't change an animal's behavior. The true test is whether you affect the animals. For instance, if your presence causes a bird to fly away, it may force the bird to abandon their young or steer clear of the area all together.

This is a time for blooming flowers and people see them and want to pick them and take them home. But leaving the flower in place is very important for seeding this summer. If it's blooming, once you take the seed away it doesn't get pollinated, it's no longer a food source for bees. Just leave it where it is. Draw it, photograph it or smell it but don't pick it.

Lawyers acting on behalf of the [Liberal] party have informed Mr. Harper in writing of our intention to defend the party vigorously against any false smears such as those he uttered yesterday under the protection of privilege.

Why hasn't this been done before?

Mr. Harper begins his campaign with an unequivocal statement that, if elected prime minister, he would act swiftly to roll back charter rights.

Thanks to the government's internal chaos in the Democratic Reform portfolio, electoral reform has once again been put on the back burner.

The system is flawed, no doubt about it.

To suggest that Mr. Lafond's documentary on the FLQ crisis makes him a separatist sympathizer is to suggest that Ken Burns' documentary on the Civil War makes him a Confederate secessionist.