Stoffer contemplates running for House fisheries chair: Hubbard favored to take over for popular Baker
An opposition member of the House Fisheries Committee says he wants to take a run at leading the politically-charged committee, after the government was accused of bouncing its controversial chair veteran Liberal MP George Baker from the post last week. NDP fisheries critic Peter Stoffer (Sackville-Eastern Shore, N.S.) said he is considering putting his name […]
Murphy’s jab at Reform exposes media attitude towards sex stories [Rex Murphy at National Conference of Editorial Writers]
Last week, a group of opinion writers from across Canada and the United States gathered for the National Conference of Editorial Writers to do what editorial writers do: party and debate issues. On the final day of the event at the Chateau Laurier Hotel, we’re told via a report by Tod Mohamed in The Ottawa […]
Government MP Joe Volpe says CRTC doesn’t protect consumers: government task force on broadcasting questions CRTC delegration, plans to hold weekly Monday meetings [Liberal caucus task force headed by Sarmite Bulte]
The government MPs who formed a caucus task force on broadcasting last spring to seek a greater voice in public policy decisions say the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has no power to protect consumers. After a feisty closed-door meeting on Parliament Hill last week, at which MPs questioned members of the CRTC, Liberal MP […]
CRTC explores brave new world of electronic communications: Canada’s Internet service provider sector has a strong message for the CRTC: back off
The Canadian Radio-television Commission launches hearings this fall on the regulation of new media, looking into everything from Canadian content on the Internet to the ongoing battle between Internet providers and telephone companies over who own the wires. But when it comes to regulating Canada’s nascent Internet service provider sector, the industry has a strong […]
CBC’s politics a hit with MPs: from Sunday Edition to Le Point to The House, MPs fight to get on the airwaves
When the live feed crashed seconds before an interview between CBC anchor Don Newman and former Alberta Reform MP Jim Silye in the last Parliament, panicked production crews cut to a commercial to fill the dead air. Mr. Silye, a former professional football player, sprinted from the remote interview site of the Centre Block foyer […]
Grit caucas election turns into three-way race: MPs say caucus race has strong federal leadership undertones
The campaign for the national Liberal caucus leadership is turning into a three-way race with some strong undertones for the upcoming federal Liberal leadership. Government backbench MPs say the caucus chair race is breaking down along federal leadership race lines. Many government MPs, who did not want to be identified, told The Hill Times that […]
Freedom of the press belongs to who owns you
It has often been repeated that freedom of the press belongs first and foremost to the person who owns the press. While this is a somewhat cynical and simplistic view of the day-to-day operation of newspapers, when push comes to shove it’s true: the owner has every right to take whatever editorial stance he wishes […]
MPs take crusade to Price Club [Stores circulating petition on abolition of unelected Senate]
The two MPs crusading to abolish the Senate have taken their cross-country campaign to the land of litre tubs of mayonnaise and foot-high cans of tuna, the massive Price Club discount warehouse stores. Liberal MP Roger Gallaway (Sarnia, Ont.) and NDP MP Lorne Nystrom (Qu’Appelle, Sask.) are publicizing their campaign in the stores. The store, […]
Health Canada stonewalls Senate agriculture committee
When secret government documents were publicly released two weeks ago suggesting that far more research is needed before Canadian farmers are allowed to inject their cows with a controversial genetically engineered hormone that boosts milk production, behind the document search was a senator’s assisant. Barbara Robson, a former journalist who used to work in the […]
Bouchard’s cabinet shuffle a real yawner
Three things worthy of note have happened in La Belle Province in the last few days. First of all, Premier Lucien and his party once again clashed over the issue of when to hold the next referendum. A resolution was adopted ordering a PQ government to hold such a vote in its next mandate, assuming […]
