Canadian government could be toppled by opposition on Friday - The Washington Post

Canada’s three opposition parties said Wednesday they planned to topple the conservative government in a vote of no confidence in Parliament on Friday and trigger the country’s fourth election in seven years

allegations — supported Monday by a Parliamentary committee — that [Prime Minister] Harper has acted in contempt of Parliament by failing to disclose the full financial details of his tougher crime legislation, corporate tax cuts and plans to purchase stealth fighter jets.

Opinion polls expect Harper’s Conservative Party to win, but not outright, meaning he will continue to govern with a minority in Parliament, dependent on opposition votes to stay afloat.

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School Cuts Raise Doubts Among Some GOP Voters - NYTimes.com

 

He's trying to balance the budget on the backs of teachers," Feest said. "It took so long to get our schools where they are, and they're going to cut it down in, what, two years? It's not right."

projected $3.6 billion budget deficit, Walker has sought to eliminate collective-bargaining rights for most public employees, including teachers

His two-year spending plan includes an 8 percent cut in aid to schools — about $835 million. And he wants to require districts to reduce their property-tax authority by an average of $550 per pupil

High school math teacher Ronn Blaha, 41 …”did not anticipate that he considered education a frivolity."

School Cuts Raise Doubts Among Some GOP Voters - NYTimes.com

Cal Skinner’s estimate of McHenry County’s cost for States Attorney Bianchi’s trials

The county taxpayers are easily on the hook for over $500,000 at this point, probably closer to $600,000, and that doesn’t count the second set of indictments Tonigan and McQueen have filed that involve “nephews” whose relationship both Bianchi and his Chief investigator Ron Salgado say are nonexistent or, at best, tenuous, that is, not what you or I would call a nephew.

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