Wheat Board issue heats up for Grits in the West: court challenges to the monopoly will continue and political pressure for freedom of choice, fanned by the Reform Party opposition, will grow
When Natural Resources Minister Ralph Goodale is in Regina this summer, he need only drive to his Albert Street constituency office to be reminded of one of the festering issues of his political life. In his face, every morning as he drives to the office, is the aggressive negative judgment of one of Mr. Goodale’s […]
Feisty debate over right-wing of Canada draws a crowd [National Debaters Forum]
It may have started out as the Ottawa equivalent of let’s put on a show in the barn: take four conservative thinkers, add long-standing topical debate, stir and serve — still hot — to an audience made up of embattled Reform and Tory members currently at war over the future of the right wing in […]
The Tory leadership five: Joe Clark has 30% of Parliament Hill caucus behind him: Hill Times poll
Experience, knowledge and integrity are why Joe Clark should lead the Tories into the new millennium and more importantly, back into the government, say a majority of the members of the federal Progressive Conservative Party caucus on Parliament Hill. According to an exclusive poll conducted by The Hill Times last week, a majority of the […]
[Former federal cabinet minister Roy MacLaren nominated to WTO]
It’s now official — former federal cabinet minister Roy MacLaren may be headed for the World Trade Organization as its new director general next spring after his nomination was announced last week by his former confr re Sergio Marchi. Mr. MacLaren, currently Canada’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom, is the former MP for Etobicoke […]
That’s Liberal Senator Maloney to you [New Ontario senator]
Sports fans on the Hill may have been overjoyed by the appointment to the Senate last month of retired hockey legend Frank Mahovlich, but political women — at least, those in the Liberal Party — think the real star of Prime Minister Jean Chr tien’s latest draft pick is longtime community activist and Liberal party […]
Canadian Auto Dealers proud to be #1 donor to Grits [Includes list of associations by party]
Canadian associations dished out money to the major federal political parties for the last federal election and leading the association pack for single donations last year was the Canadian Automobile Dealers, with a $32,173 contribution to the governing Liberal Party. Huw Williams, spokesman for the Canadian Automobile Dealers, said there’s a simple explanation for such […]
Reform party targets Canada’s corporate boardrooms: Reformers still strail behind Tories’ finesse in corporate fundraising [Includes list of top 30 corporate donors in 1997]
The Tory and Reform parties, embroiled in one of the most bitter historical battles for the country’s right-thinking voters, are also fighting for Canada’s multi-million-dollar corporate donors, according to the parties’ 1997 fiscal returns. The Reform Party nearly doubled its corporate appeal since the last federal election year, raising $1.9-million from Canada’s boardrooms out of […]
Toronto Star falls for old victim tale in Walker case [Status of daughter Sheena]
In last Saturday’s column, Don Sellar, The Toronto Star’s ombudsman, congratulated his newspaper’s managing editor, Mary Deanne Shears, for deciding that the newspaper will no longer do its job in covering the infamous Albert Walker case. To be sure, that’s not the spin Sellar put on it. Walker, of course, is the Woodstock financier who […]
Pollution is a growing business on the Net
Okay, it’s been hot in Ottawa for the past couple of weeks. Damn hot. And smoggy too. All of which has riled the usual suspects into pointing fingers at culprits responsible for pollution and ozone depletion. Instead, let’s point a finger or two at a few groups who are trying to help the situation. There […]
The loss of our parliamentary system [Manning’s world travels and the MMT affair]
The leader of the Official Opposition, Preston Manning, has left the country to undertake a 24-day, six-nation tour as a means of “establishing personal relations with the key players in government and business in Asia.” Manning will be accompanied by Bob Mills, the Reform party’s foreign affairs critic. The trip includes visits to England and […]
