[Vice-chair position deadline August 31: Canada Industrial Relations Board]
The deadline is also quickly approaching for would-be vice-chairpersons of the Canada Industrial Relations Board — Aug. 31. The board replaces the Canada Labor Relations Board and is expected to be running full-tilt some time this fall, probably between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. While the current members of the existing board are welcome to apply […]
[Vice-chair position applications process beginning: Canadian Human Rights Tribunal]
As the prime minister mulls an appeal of the pay equity ruling made by the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, his director of appointments, Percy Downe, is taking in applications for the tribunal’s vice-chair’s position. The tribunal made the much-talked about and much-debated pay equity ruling that would have the federal government forking over up to […]
Career Foreign Affairs bureaucrat replaces Bartleman [as foreign policy advisor to the PM]
A replacement for Jim Bartleman, former foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Jean Chr tien and assistant secretary to the cabinet for foreign and defence policy, Privy Council Office, has been announced. Mr. Bartleman, who was appointed high commissioner of South Africa on Aug. 4, has been replaced by veteran foreign affairs bureaucrat Michael Kergin. […]
Question period: should the Ontario government be able to tax your non-taxable allowance?
“Should the Ontario government be able to tax your non-taxable allowance?” If [MPPs] want to do that, they should really disclose how much an MPP makes and how much they pay in taxes. I would ask the MPP who’s sponsoring this bill to much more forthcoming about their finances. Liberal MP Dan McTeague Pickering-Ajax-Uxbridge, Ont. […]
CRTC Net regulations are non-sensical
Did you hear the one about the Canadian Radio Telecommunications Commission wanting to regulate the Internet? Unfortunately, it’s no joke. Something’s afoot, too, as it is interesting to note that the hot-button word “Internet” does not appear even once in the public notice, dated July 31, 1998 (www.crtc.gc.ca/ENG/NEWS/RELEASES/1998/R980731e.htm) That’s right, “Internet” is not among the […]
Selling the notion of leadership [Hugh Segal in Fredericton]
The long weekend was a glorious holiday weekend in these parts. It was a good weekend for hanging loose, doing nothing, playing a little golf, drinking a little beer, enjoying near-total immersion during the family-value days. This is reward for enduring the month of March. I marked the first Monday of August as the day […]
Committee chairs are now up for grabs
It’s time for musical committee chairs…The recent appointment of the new Parliamentary secretaries will have a trickle down affect as MPs look to see who will fill vacant committee chairs. Twelve of the 17 new parliamentary secretaries were committee chairs or vice-chairs. National Defence committee chairman Robert Bertrand and committee vice-chair Bob Woods were promoted […]
Astronaut salaries set
Out of this world salaries: the government recently set the salaries for Canada’s astronauts. What do the nation’s best and brightest pull in as they travel through the stars? Marc Garneau will pull in as much as $126,000 as will Steve MacLean, Robert Thirsk, Bjarni Tryggvason, and David Williams. However one of the best know […]
Tories unsure how to get media attention: Senator Ghitter says current race lacks excitement
Tory leadership race organizers may be able to get out the party members to vote but attracting the media to the campaign will be a more difficult challenge. Even advocates of the one person-one-vote rule for the leadership race admit that the new system has, so far, offered little in the way of ‘media-ready’ events. […]
Star case threatens press freedom [Hanna Sokolski of Canadian Polish Congress on coverage of Polish Holocaust: 1996]
Anybody interested in freedom of the press — and that should include journalists and politicians alike — might take note, and view with alarm, a recent horrific decision by the busybodies in the Ontario Human Rights Commission. The OHRC, chaired by the former provincial Tory cabinet minister Keith Norton, has notified The Toronto Star’s lawyers […]
