Tories score $147Gs in Virtual Pizza takeout: election coffers spill over at $10m [1997 data]
They may be the fifth party in the House of Commons, but when it comes to collecting cash, the Tories can hold their heads high. Last year, the party took in more than $10 million in donations, including 163 contributions of more than $10,000. Topping this year’s list of donors was Virtual Pizza Canada Inc. […]
Court writes own constitution
Just as Prime Minister Jean Chr tien and Quebec Premier Lucien Bouchard both declared victory in last week’s Supreme Court of Canada ruling on the Quebec secession issue, so too do journalists offer sharply conflicting views of the same set of circumstances. Globe and Mail editor William Thorsell, clearly enthralled by the Court decision, wrote […]
Critics say appointment “Good” but still want political initiatives [Deputy minister appointed]
A blast from the past will be upon the beleaguered Environment Canada as Parliament resumes sitting on Sept. 21, when Leonard Good takes the reigns as deputy minister. While his appointment is seen as a positive one for the department, critics say he can only do so much without initiatives on the political side of […]
MPs challenge minister over costs [of Parliamentary renovations]
Opposition MPs , furious that the cost of renovating the Parliamentary precinct could shoot up to nearly one billion dollars, want Public Works minister Alfonso Gagliano and his officials to come before the Natural Resources and Government Operations Committee to explain why the estimate has so dramatically increased. Public Works officials have admitted the original […]
Clinton’s sexcapades fair game for media
“Even presidents have private lives.” U.S. President Bill Clinton, Aug. 17, 1998 Within limits, yes. But Clinton’s private life became public business when he was using his public position — not to mention the sacred Oval office itself — to mess around with a young intern and then, when confronted with the allegations, to flatly […]
Caucus meeting avoids trouble spots: PM’s remarks on third term only excitment, say MPs
As government MPs headed home from the Liberal caucus meeting in Shawnigan, Quebec last week, reactions ranged from quiet confidence to a shrug that the whole caucus meeting was a waste of time. One Ontario MP described it as a normal meeting of MPs belonging to a party in government “that knows it’s going to […]
[Digital Policy Page]
By day, David Clarke (dclarke@storm.ca) is a communications consultant in Ottawa. But his after-work passion is a new website entitled The Digital Policy Page (www.storm.ca/~dclarke/ecom.htm). The idea for the site flowed from an article he was writing about e-banking in the context of the upcoming Ottawa OECD E-Commerce Ministerial meeting (www.ottawaoecdconference.org). Clarke says that he […]
It’s about privacy, stupid [Clinton’s privacy, not his sex life, is the issue: Monica Lewinsky investigation]
C.S. Lewis, in his essay on Prudery and Philology, remarks upon a peculiar “arbitrary discrimination” which allowed the artist to draw the naked human body and “omit nothing that the eye can see,” while it has been far less permissible to render a detailed description of the same subject in words. Lewis invites the reader […]
CJC lobbies for Holocaust museum
Washington trip in the works…The Canadian Jewish Congress has not given up on a national Holocaust museum in Ottawa. The congress plans to take several members of Parliament to the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C., in an effort to push the government to open a Holocaust museum in Ottawa. Who’s going and when will […]
Grits and Reform opened up coffers for byelection [Port Moody-Coquitlam]
Money is no object…The Liberals spent $65,754 to score an upset win in the the Reform-held B.C riding of Port Moody-Coquitlam during last spring’s by election. According to document filed with Elections Canada, Liberal MP Lou Secora raised $73,456 for the campaign, giving him a warchest that rivals some of the Liberals top fundraising MPs. […]
