The Aga Khan and Canada: a decades-long, multi-partisan friendship
With the recent hubbub about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Christmas vacations to the Aga Khan’s private island in the Bahamas, the spiritual leader for the world’s 15 million Ismaili Muslims has been a topic of discussion in Canada. While he is not usually at the forefront of political scandal, ties between the Aga Khan and the […]
Conservative leadership candidates should stop parroting Trump
TORONTO—Conservative leadership candidates should stop parroting Donald Trump, stop chasing extreme fringe supporters to generate headlines, and instead promote an agenda that will help Canada to deal with the Trump presidency. Trumpism is not a movement and it has no ideas or political agenda. It is a communication skill. It is the capacity to promote a […]
Trudeau’s cross-country town hall tour risky, but gutsy
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cross-country town halls may have been criticized by his political opponents as an obvious effort to change the political channel from his private helicopter trip to the Aga Khan’s private island, Christmas vacation and his cash for access problem, but the tour was also a gutsy and smart political move. For two weeks, the […]
Most Canadians content with electoral system
Re: “Electoral reform is dead though was it ever even alive?” (The Hill Times, Jan. 18, p. 8). Your editorial begins by asking rhetorically if anyone believes the Trudeau government will change the way we elect our MPs by the time the 2019 election rolls around. The answer is most likely not. Why? Because most […]
O’Leary should emphasize his successful business background every time he talks
OAKVILLE, ONT.—Please don’t tell anyone this, but I’m about to rip off famous Canadian academic Marshall McLuhan. Okay, maybe it’s a bit hash to use the term “rip off,” since I really just want to alter McLuhan’s famous axiom, the one about how “the medium is the message,” so that it fits the world of […]
Stephen Harper sees ‘glass half-full’ in Trump’s victory
OTTAWA—Well, look who’s talking. Mr. Optimist. “I know we are all worried about what this means,” Stephen Harper said last week in New Delhi. “I’m trying to look at the glass half-full for a second.” He always was a cheery sort. After his 2015 election defeat, Canada’s sixth-longest-serving prime minister took a long break from substantive […]
Conservative Party better get its act together if it wants to be great again, says former Mulroney cabinet minister
I myself believe a once-great national institution is in ruins, or will be if the Conservative Party membership at large does not soon come to its senses and act. I know from years of working in the political trenches, and now from corresponding with countless Conservatives across Canada for many months for this book, that […]
Harper’s Conservative Party fundraising role appears unprecedented, expected to mobilize base
Former prime ministers have helped out party fundraising efforts in the past, but Stephen Harper’s role as a board member for the Conservative Party’s fundraising arm appears unprecedented in modern history, and his signature on appeals to party members is a boon to fundraising, say political insiders. “It speaks to the knowledge and connection that the Conservative fundraising […]
House of Commons wins recognition as a top employer for young people
The House of Commons is one of Canada’s top employers for young people, according to an editorial competition published by The Globe and Mail . The House administration was touted for its array of youth employment opportunities, such as the page program, summer student employment program, co-op opportunities, and internal job rotations, in a summary of the reasons for its selection […]
Commons okays $2.4-million in committee travel over past year
The House of Commons and a panel of MPs that reviews travel budgets for standing committees has approved a total of $2.4-million for committee trips in Canada and abroad since the Liberals formed government, a record of the expenses shows. The bulk of the budgets and expenditures were approved from February to October 2016—a total of […]
