House players set strategy [Dhaliwal wants Bill C-43 to go to the House Finance committee by November]
As the House prepares for a highly-partisan and nasty fall session, the nation’s top tax collector, Federal Revenue Minister Herb Dhaliwal hopes his bill to set up a new super-tax collection agency will move off the floor of the House of Commons and through committee. National Revenue Minister Herb Dhaliwal (Vancouver South, B.C.) told The […]
Gun owners, hep-C victims battle for protest space on Hill [when House resumes]
Gun advocates and hepatitis-C victims have been battling for Parliamentary turf to stage their protests when the House returns in two weeks. Both groups had tentatively booked rallies to be held on Sept. 21, the same day MPs return to the House after a three-month summer recess, and the fall session begins, but it turns […]
Tory leadership candidates target moribund ridings: PC strategists try to win over voters on Tory-hostile turf
It was supposed to bring direct democracy to leadership selection process. But Tory strategists may be discovering that the new system means the secret to winning this race is to target moribund ridings where the number of active party members is lower, not higher. Under the PC constitution, for leadership election purposes, all ridings are […]
Jake Hoeppner threatens to quit federal politics
Reform Party MP Jake Hoeppner is threatening to quit politics as his party faces a credibility crisis. Mr. Hoeppner (Portage Lisgar, Man.), a 62-year-old grain farmer from southern Manitoba who was first elected in 1993, told The Hill Times last week that he is seriously thinking about not coming back when the House resumes sitting […]
Reform Party in turmoil: official opposition looks into the abyss as it faces credibility crisis [Caucus meeting in Banff]
It was supposed to be a fall session of highs for the Reform Party, the party that swept into Official Opposition in June 1997 and proved capable of tackling some controversial national issues. Instead, it was a summer of hell. The Reform Party’s former star justice critic is facing sexual assault charges, MPs are openly […]
Journalists make little effort in Hull story [Moscow Times allegations of racism]
Those of us of a certain age well remember Bobby Hull as the exciting Golden Jets flying down the ice and launching one of his patented slap shots into the top of the net. Or, a less happy memory, of the hockey star who got into legal problems for domestic abuse. But that was then, […]
[Taking stock: assessing public sector reforms]
Taking Stock: Assessing Public Sector Reforms is the second of three volumes on the subject of governance and public management produced by the Canadian Centre for Management Development. It contains the reflections of 13 academics, including five from the U.S., four from Canada, one from the U.K., one from France, one from Sweden and one […]
A just-the-facts-ma’am site
From time to time I come across a site that I can’t wait to tell others about. It reeks of tangible matters well-presented, well-linked, and free of graphic clutter, a Just-The-Facts-Ma’am kind of place that you know will excite others. Here is one, hosted by the Media Awareness Network. I was recently turned on to […]
Why Clark and Segal cancelled televised debates
CBC Newsworld offered the five candidates for the Tory party’s national leadership a half-hour of free time for a debate to be carried both by Newsworld and CBC National. The debate was to be held before a live audience in Toronto, with Nancy Wilson as moderator; the subject was to be economics. The date, Sept. […]
Rookie MP shakes up senate [Chairship of Greater Toronto Area caucus]
Senate block vote…Meanwhile, rookie Ontario Liberal MP Bryon Wilfert is vying for the chairship of the Greater Toronto Area caucus but he’s going to have to face off with Ontario Senator Lorne Milne before it’s over. Sen. Milne, who co-chaired the Liberals’ Ontario election campaign in the last federal election, said she’s not too pleased […]
