News roundup
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is preparing to replace the Parliamentary Ethics Commissioner... just days after the Commissioner announced that he would investigate Harper and David Emerson, who was given a Conservative cabinet post after winning his riding as a Liberal.
- In a challenge to the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision Roe vs. Wade, the governor of South Dakota has signed a law making it illegal for doctors to perform an abortion, unless the mother's life would be endangered by carrying the child to term.
- Former Prime Minister Jean Chretien dismisses claims by the current government that Canada's goals under the Kyoto Accord are unattainable. Stephen Harper says it is too late to reach the goals set for 2012, and instead wants to create a made-in-Canada plan. Environmentalists believe that the goals under Kyoto are attainable, but would require a strong commitment by the federal and provincial governments.
Posted in: climate change, politics on March 07, 2006
