Laureen Harper Comment Sparks Confusion About Her Marijuana Stance

Once lauded as an election issue to watch, Canada’s marijuana laws are gaining a little more attention after the prime minister’s wife hinted she may support decriminalization.

Laureen Harper's comment at an Ontario campaign office appears to contrast with the stance underlined by her husband Conservative Leader Stephen Harper against loosening the country’s marijuana laws.

Conservative Party paid for Laureen Harper fundraising appearances in Nova Scotia

PARLIAMENT HILL—The Conservative Party has confirmed it is footing the bill for a campaign-style fundraising tour by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s wife Laureen Harper, in a bid to help Conservative MP Scott Armstrong fend off a challenge by former Conservative MP Bill Casey in the Nova Scotia electoral district Mr. Armstrong has held since 2009.

“Just to be clear, the Conservative Party is paying Ms. Harper’s travel and expenses related to the fundraisers in Cumberland-Colchester,” Conservative Party spokesperson Cory Hann said in an email to The Hill Times.

Wife of Canada's prime minister shows callous disregard for missing and murdered women

The wife of Canada's prime minister has been caught out on the issue of the hundreds of women who have gone missing or whose murders are unsolved in Canada over the past four decades, many of whom are Aboriginal. Laureen Harper challenged a 21 year old activist who interrupted her speech at a black-tie event in Toronto on April 17 that was raising funds for… stray cats.

What's with Laureen Harper's stock portfolio selloff? Fiscal Götterdämmerung? Or what?

Terribly rude of me to ask, I know. Positively un-Canadian! But what's with Laureen Harper's stock portfolio selloff?

The Ottawa Citizen reported in a remarkably uninformative story last week that what it termed a disclosure of assets and liabilities filed with the federal Ethics Commissioner by Harper and her husband, who happens to be the Conservative prime minister of Canada, showed Harper had “liquidated her entire portfolio of stock market investments late last year.”