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THE Q&A BY KATE MALLOY
Canadian government and politics at a crossroads, it’s time to get with it

Don Lenihan argues for much greater citizen engagement in an increasingly complex world.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 02/06/2012 12:00 am EST
Liberals dying but not dead, says Newman

Peter C. Newman says the Liberal Party is isolated, has no leader, no power base, no money, no natural allies, no leverage as a third party, and no policies. Liberals say they have problems, but they will return.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 01/09/2012 12:00 am EST
The world according to Bill

Former NDP MP Bill Blaikie, a United Church minister, talks about managing religious belief in the public square and says not everyone who has religious faith in politics is on the right.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 12/05/2011 12:00 am EST
‘I don’t miss going at the daily barrage and all the BS’ on the Hill

Allan Fotheringham says he was inspired by Hunter S. Thompson and Tom Wolfe. That explains it.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 11/14/2011 12:00 am EST
Competition among religious ideologies will continue with ‘an enduring intensity,’ says Gruending

Former NDP MP Dennis Gruending looks at political ideologies and tactics of religious conservatives and progressives in his new book

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 10/17/2011 12:00 am EDT
Bourrie takes fresh look at how Canadian news was manipulated in WW II, says war reporting today ‘an expensive frill’

Author and Hill journalist Mark Bourrie talks about his new book The Fog of War: Censorship of Canada’s Media in World War Two, and why the number of Canadian journalists today who can actually understand and analyse military affairs ‘could fit around a kitchen table.’

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 09/19/2011 12:00 am EDT
'In the snap of a finger' we were taken hostage in Baghdad

Canadian peace activist James Loney talks about his new book, Captivity: 118 Days in Iraq and The Struggle For a World Without War.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 06/20/2011 12:00 am EDT
Former Ottawa hired gun serves up insider look at 'most vicious federal-provincial battle in Newfoundland and Labrador's history'

Bill Rowe, author of The War With Ottawa: The Inside Story By a Hired Gun, takes a 'warts-and-all' look at former Newfoundland premier Danny Williams' fight with prime minister Paul Martin for $2-billion, what was called the Atlantic Accord Crisis in 2004

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 02/07/2011 12:00 am EST
Martin lifts curtain on Harper's PMO in sensational new book

Author and columnist Lawrence Martin says Prime Minister Stephen Harper has no respect for the democratic process, is a 'low-road operator,' but is also a Conservative success story.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 10/25/2010 12:00 am EDT
'There's lots of room for humour in politics'

But author Terry Fallis, a former Liberal Hill staffer, who just released his book The High Road, the sequel to his Stephen Leacock Humour Award-winning The Best Laid Plans, says there should be more of it today.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 10/11/2010 12:00 am EDT
Canada stands in middle of a century-long period of change, and tremendous changes coming, says Crowley

Fearful Symmetry author Brian Lee Crowley says as the baby boom generation withdraws from the workforce and Quebec's bargaining power declines, over the next 50 years Canada will become more concerned with labour shortages, immigration issues, the growth

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 09/20/2010 12:00 am EDT
World's headed for another Great Reset, says urban guru

Richard Florida says society is in 'the midst of a tectonic shift to a fundamentally new economic order, the shift from an industrial to an idea-driven economy.' It's headed for another Great Reset.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 07/05/2010 12:00 am EDT
'We're in a period where a new media is being born,' says Global's Newman

Global National anchor Kevin Newman will leave his job in August. But he has a lot to say about national network news, the profoundly evolving media industry, political coverage, and federal politics.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 06/14/2010 12:00 am EDT
Flanagan pushes for restoration of aboriginal property rights, emancipation from Indian Act

Tom Flanagan says he's learned a lot since writing First Nations? Second Thoughts. Today, he's calling for the restoration of aboriginal property rights.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 05/17/2010 12:00 am EDT
Q&A with Harvey Cashore: Truth shows up on Airbus scandal but Canada closes the door, says Cashore

Fifth estate reporter Harvey Cashore spent 15 years on the Airbus scandal story, but he says he's not even sure it was worth it in the end.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 05/03/2010 12:00 am EDT
World headed for 'pretty horrendous impacts' due to climate change, Canada urged to act now

Mark Jaccard says political leaders will only react when it actually becomes a crisis. But Canada still has no public policy to fight climate change after more than 20 years of federal political promises.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 04/19/2010 12:00 am EDT
Q&A with Shawn Alteo: Atleo pushes education in fight for First Nations

AFN national chief Shawn Atleo says education is the key to success in a modern economy and is pushing for 65,000 post-secondary graduates for First Nations in the next five years.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 04/05/2010 12:00 am EDT
Canada's 'most idiosyncratic observer' has loads to say about climate change politics

Rex Murphy, who just left The Globe and Mail for the National Post, is critical of the 'politically correct' media pressure to fight climate change.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 02/08/2010 12:00 am EST
'Trudeau was Sarkozy at a higher level'

Bestselling author John English explores the private and public life of Pierre Trudeau, one of Canada's most engrossing prime ministers in modern time.

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 11/30/2009 12:00 am EST
'Cheap stuff a destabilizing force in the world,' the greenhouse gas of our troubled economy, says hot young author Laird

Gordon Laird, author of The Price of A Bargain: The Quest for Cheap and the Death of Globalization, says it's irresponsible for the federal government to suggest consumer activity will pull us out of the recession. Canada better wake up. Now

By KATE MALLOY |
Published: Monday, 11/16/2009 12:00 am EST

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Monday, May 21, 2012
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HILL LIFE & PEOPLE SLIDESHOWS
Peter Milliken portait unveiling May 9, 2012

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Former House Speaker Peter Milliken poses with artist Paul Wyse, who painted his portrait.
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Conservative MPs Ed Holder, Patrick Brown and Rod Bruinooge.
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Hill and Knowlton's Don Boudria.
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Former Senator Marcel Prud'homme and former Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff.
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Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson.
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Former prime minister Joe Clark and Senate Speaker Noel Kinsella.
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Liberal Senator Joseph Day, Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney and Peter Milliken.
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The crowd.
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Bob Rae, Government House Leader Peter Van Loan, Peter Milliken, Senate Speaker Noel Kinsella, Thomas Mulcair.
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Peter Milliken, Senate Speaker Noel Kinsella, NDP leader Thomas Mulcair.
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Peter Milliken and House Speaker Andrew Scheer unveil the portrait.
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Peter Milliken and the portrait.
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Artist Paul Wyse.
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Liberal interim leader Bob Rae, Government House Leader Peter Van Loan, House Speaker Andrew Scheer.
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NDP MP Denise Savoie and Peter Milliken.
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The portrait gets taken out to be hung.
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Liberal Senator David Smith.

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