Pot, fundraising and breastfeeding: not talked about in public
I was listening to my son the journalist on the radio the other day. He was interviewing a woman who teaches nursing, but whose activity is as a volunteer canvassing local restaurants in an effort to persuade their management to allow mothers to breast-feed their children when dining out, and to make their approval of […]
Liberals’ 200 most generous donors [Annual list of the top corporate & individual contributors]
From airlines, to banks, to drug companies to the Prime Minister’s Office and the just plain wealthy, The Hill Times presents its annual list of the top corporate and individual contributors to the Liberals’ warchest F
BC senator joins flock of Segal supporters [Provincial chairs & other top people]
In yet another update on the Tory leadership campaign front: Hugh Segal’s campaign team has been completed. Veteran British Columbia Tory Senator Gerry St. Germain has joined the ranks of Segal supporters as the provincial chair for B.C. For those of you needing a reminder, Sen. St. Germain served as a federal MP for Mission-Port […]
Question period: considering Canada is campaigning to sit on the United Nations Security Council, should we be spending more money on defence and foreign aid?
“No. I happen to be the chairman for the Interparliamentary union … it’s the farthest from my considerations. It goes to water, it goes to environment, it goes to literacy. The military aspect doesn’t take guns, it takes peaceful consideration. Look at the feeding of children, look at AIDS research, leprosy.” Liberal MP Sheila Finestone […]
What’s wrong with the PQ these days?
A lot of things are just not going right for the Parti Qu b cois these days. The Parliamentary session, which recessed just a few days before the national holiday of Quebec, showed there are many problems within the PQ ranks. The biggest headache remains health-care reform and its author, the minister of health, Jean […]
Tory leadership race needs some excitement
“It’s official: Joe Why becomes Joe Yes.” That cryptogram is from the front page of my morning paper, by way of signalling Joe Clark’s formal entry into the contest for the leadership of the federal Progressive Conservative party. The message confirms the puzzlement of journalists as to Clark’s motives. Why would a guy like Joe […]
[Liberal Caucus Research Bureau loses communications assistant to the international arena of youth politics]
The Liberal Caucus Research Bureau has lost a communications assistant to the international arena of liberal youth politics. Janice Nicholson left the bureau last week and will be heading to Brussels on July 17 to take on the position of executive director with the International Federation of Liberal and Radical Youth, an umbrella organization of […]
Senator wins some respect [in battle over bills between Commons & Senate]
The power of the legislator…The battle between the House and the Senate will likely heat up again this fall over how the elected MPs treat private members’ bill from the Upper Chamber. Senators are pushing for changes to how their bills are handled by the House of Commons. Manitoba Liberal Senator Sharon Carstairs has written […]
Question period: What do you think of the decision to increase the pay of heads of Crown corporations by 4%-19% while MPs got a 2% raise?
“It’s not just the heads of Crown corporations that are seeing these increases — it’s senior military people and senior bureaucrats. The government seems to have opened the floodgates and I wonder where it will stop? And will the people at the lower end see this? If not, why?” Reform MP Randy White Langley-Abbotsford, B.C. […]
Goldbloom extends term to September
Official Languages Commissioner Victor Goldbloom expects Canada will still need an official languages commissioner in the next century. Mr. Goldbloom’s seven-year term as official languages commissioner, which was supposed to end on June 23, has been extended by six months. But he expects the government will appoint a new commissioner soon after the House convenes […]
