Dion defends carbon tax
OTTAWA -- Liberal Leader St ©phane Dion vigorously defended Wednesday his proposal to impose a carbon tax, accusing the Conservatives of spreading lies about the Grit plan before they've even seen it.At a closed-door caucus meeting, Dion was repeatedly warned that unless he develops a "bulletproof" communications strategy to counter Tory misrepresentations, the carbon tax proposal could sink the Liberals in the next election.
Lost passports skyrocket
TORONTO -- Passport Canada is giving additional scrutiny to passport applications across the country and warning travellers to protect their travel documents.
In 2007, 37,650 passports were reported lost or stolen, compared to 24,792 in 2005. The rise in thefts and losses coincides with a jump in the number of passports processed annually.
From Black's point of view
TORONTO -- Jailed media mogul Conrad Black is expected to tell his version of the events that led up to his conviction in Chicago on fraud and racketeering charges in a new autobiography to be published this October.
The Toronto Star reports The Fight of My Life will pick up the story from Black's previous 1993 memoir, A Life in Progress.
Drivers feeling less safe
OTTAWA -- A national survey shows that almost half of all Canadians feel less safe in their vehicles than they did 10 years ago, according to the Canadian Automobile Association.
Even though technological advances through the years have improved safety mechanisms in vehicles, 45 per cent of those polled said they feel less safe in their cars than they did a decade ago, and only 11 per cent said they feel safer.
One reason for the response was that people seem to believe that other drivers are not as careful when they drive as they were in the past. The online survey, carried out by Harris/Decima polled 1,348 Canadians. It has a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percentage points.
-- From the news services
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