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Photograph by Jake Wright, The Hill Times
Smiling, happy PMO guys: Bruce Carson, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s legislative assistant, and Ian Brodie, chief of staff to the prime minister, took a late afternoon stroll last Wednesday to Hy’s. Very highly, extremely interesting, Martha.
Dion plans cross-country summer tour, party polls low in Quebec
Conservatives lack options, likely to go negative, and to launch massive air war in next election campaign, predicts Kinsella.
By Abbas Rana

Harper's loyal, patronizing and new spokesman on 'in-and-out'
Tory strategy downplays the seriousness of the controversy, as cameras fix not on a Cabinet minister, but a young party loyalist Pierre Poilievre.
By Simon Doyle

Feds draft policies without knowledge of officers of Parliament: Marleau
Liberals want to know: 'Why is the government at war with Canada's democratic institutions?'
By Cynthia Münster

Iggy's 'didn't get it done' haunts Libs, but still relevant say Conservatives
Conservatives still getting a lot of mileage out of Deputy Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff's infamous refrain.
By Harris MacLeod

Only courts can decide on Tories' 'in-and-out' campaign financing scheme
Elections Canada says other parties were not questioned because parties made 'non-monetary' transfers.
By Bea Vongdouangchanh

House, Senate committee chairs should be paid Cabinet ministers' salaries: report
Tom Axworthy's report on strengthening Parliament, 'the heart of Canadian federal democracy deserves our confidence.'
By Bea Vongdouangchanh


NEWS

Heard on the Hill
Milliken hosts cookbook launch, Mills says goodbye in the House, Milnes meets Bubba
By Bea Vongdouangchanh

Lobbying
Lobbying on 'net throttling' heads to Hill
CAIP says, 'Bell has engaged in these throttling practices without providing a shred of evidence that its network is congested.'
By Simon Doyle

Hill Climbers
Former EA to chief of staff to prime minister joins Navigator
Parliamentary assistant to Conservative MP Hawn off to Afghanistan
By Abbas Rana

Dion plans cross-country summer tour, party polls low in Quebec
Conservatives lack options, likely to go negative, and to launch massive air war in next election campaign, predicts Kinsella.
By Abbas Rana

Harper's loyal, patronizing and new spokesman on 'in-and-out'
Tory strategy downplays the seriousness of the controversy, as cameras fix not on a Cabinet minister, but a young party loyalist Pierre Poilievre.
By Simon Doyle

Civil Circles
Feds draft policies without knowledge of officers of Parliament: Marleau
Liberals want to know: 'Why is the government at war with Canada's democratic institutions?'
By Cynthia Münster

Iggy's 'didn't get it done' haunts Libs, but still relevant say Conservatives
Conservatives still getting a lot of mileage out of Deputy Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff's infamous refrain.
By Harris MacLeod

Legislative Process
Only courts can decide on Tories' 'in-and-out' campaign financing scheme
Elections Canada says other parties were not questioned because parties made 'non-monetary' transfers.
By Bea Vongdouangchanh

Week Ahead in Parliament
House, Senate committee chairs should be paid Cabinet ministers' salaries: report
Tom Axworthy's report on strengthening Parliament, 'the heart of Canadian federal democracy deserves our confidence.'
By Bea Vongdouangchanh

Politics Page
Government publishes final lobby regulations
FEATURES

Feature
Comedians can be society's watchdogs, says Holmes
Comedian Jessica Holmes talks about federal politics, pop culture and the dumbing down of society.
By Harris MacLeod

Book Reviews
Recently Released Books
Feature
Gardner exposes false fears in public policy making
Ottawa Citizen journalist and author Dan Gardner probes how fear is used to promote certain public policies and how the media play right along with it.
By Abbas Rana

Feature
Fallis wins Leacock Medal for Humour
Former Liberal staffer and PR consultant Terry Fallis couldn't get a publisher, so he podcast it and then published the book himself.
By Harris MacLeod

Feature
Thomas D'Arcy McGee was hated as much as he was loved
Author David Wilson says McGee was the most 'intellectually gifted Father of Confederation' who never got the biography he deserved.
By Simon Doyle

The Spin Doctors
"Some Bay Street economists say the federal government could be in deficit within two years because of a slowing economy and the federal Liberals are blaming the Harper government for mismanaging the economy and bringing the country close to a deficit. Is this right?"
By Abbas Rana

Parliamentary Calendar
Monday, May 5th, 2008 - Upcoming political and government events, parties, conferences, conventions and more.
The Full Nelson
Do the polls influence election outcomes?
Do published polls that report on the parties' standings sway voters in casting their ballots? The parties, their leaders, and Parliament think so. The media and the courts believe it too. What does the public think? The jury is still out.
By Nelson Wiseman

OPINIONS

Op-ed
Women in politics listen up: pay special attention to your heart health
It's time that women, especially those in high-stress careers such as Parliamentarians, realize the heart truth, pay attention to their risk factors, and learn about lifestyle changes that protect their health, says Liza Frulla.
By Liza Frulla

Op-ed
Wrong way to deal with First Nations rights: Congress of Aboriginal Peoples' Brazeau
Hopefully, these same Parliamentarians who have diluted the provisions of Bill C-21 will have the courage to account to First Nations peoples as to why they allowed the protection of their human rights to become negotiable.
By Patrick Brazeau

Op-ed
Leading the opposition is the most difficult job in the country, take it from an old seasoned Tory backroomer
Geoff Norquay writes that when the electoral system moves your leader from 24 Sussex to Stornoway, it's customary to begin the process of taking stock and renewing not only leadership, but also policies, organization, funding and people. Here, the Liberals have really been slow off the mark.
By Geoff Norquay

Editorial
MPs: read Axworthy's report
Op-ed
Senate Appointments Consultations Act is false advertising
In the development of a federal advisory election for Senators, we may soon have a more serious attempt to do indirectly what can not be done directly both under constitutional conventions and under the Constitution Acts, 1867 and 1982 without any provincial consent.
By Errol P. Mendes

Party Central
Celebridée festival gets you thinking, talking, eating, and drinking...
The festival's Mirror Tent was sent over from Belgium with, David Luxton said, 'some assembly required.' It came to Ottawa by ship in two 40-foot containers and was assembled over three days behind the Château Laurier in the historic Major's Hill Park.
By Harris MacLeod

Letters
COLUMNS

Canada's Privacy Act suddenly comes up for review: a shallow exercise, or not?
Selecting Senators so as to protect democracy, or not: part II
The bill would have unfortunate consequences for our Parliamentary system in which the government is responsible to the popularly-elected House and not to Parliament as a whole.
By B. Thomas Hall

Getting beyond Canada's copyright myths
Industry Minister Jim Prentice hopes to introduce the highly contentious copyright bill within the next few weeks.
By Michael Geist

Obama garners mostly unrealistic, happy ending media coverage, no?
It is life-affirming, you might say—a happy ending that can fit in your hand like a small cabbage.
By Tom Korski

Conrad Black is really a Canadian, we should fight to bring him back too...
Why do media and politicians allocate so much ink, airtime, and debate in the House to bring home Canadian citizens jailed abroad, yet nobody talks about the possibility of bringing back none other than former media baron Conrad Black?
By Angelo Persichilli



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