Strength in numbers: Cooperation between governments and industry is key to competitiveness
It’s been two years since Manitoba Premier Gary Doer and Aerospace Industries Association of Canada President Peter Boag called on Canada’s aerospace and government leaders to establish a national forum-the Canadian Aerospace Partnership-to concentrate on ensuring the industry’s competitiveness. Global realities are such that there is strength in numbers. The solution requires industry and governments […]
The ‘un-politician politician’: Elizabeth May
What the Green Party needs now is a leader with national name recognition who can give the party an enhanced profile, Green Party leadership candidate Elizabeth May told The Hill Times in an interview last week. And as the former executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada and an officer of the Order of […]
TPC ‘a very important’ program to aerospace industry in Canada: Industry groups
The following is an edited excerpt of evidence from a meeting of the House Standing Committee Industry, Science and Technology, which disussed the aerospace industry on June 8, 2006. Liberal MP Mark Holland (Ajax-Pickering, Ont.): Thank you for all the presentations today. I want to start on the issue of Technology Partnerships Canada, which I […]
The Green Party: Quickly becoming somebodies
The new Green Party leader will be elected on Sunday, Aug. 27, the final day of the Green Party of Canada’s leadership convention beginning Thursday at the Ottawa Congress Centre. Elizabeth May, David Chernushenko, and Jim Fannon are the three candidates in the running. The Green Party of Canada has run a full slate of […]
Grits gave up strategic approach to Khan appointment
Recently Prime Minister Stephen Harper invited Liberal MP Wajid Khan to serve as his Middle East adviser. Having consulted with interim Liberal Party leader Bill Graham (and obtained his agreement), Khan agreed. This was as close to a mea culpa as you are likely to get from PM Harper. The outreach to Khan reflects Harper’s […]
Proportional representation the key issue for Green candidate Fannon
Even though the title ‘Green Party leadership candidate’ suggests Jim Fannon, a real estate agent who also owns a hemp food store, would name the environment as his biggest priority, he doesn’t. He names electoral reform. “The way we elect our politicians is broken. It’s sadly flawed, it’s hundreds of years old, it was designed […]
‘I have no regrets about leaving with anything unfulfilled’
Nova Scotia Liberal Senator Michael Kirby announced last week that he would step down from the Senate on Oct. 5, 10 years early. “I’ve always had a history, I guess, of leaving a job that I sort of thought I had reached a peak,” said Sen. Kirby, 65. Former prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau appointed […]
‘No one wants to support a one-issue party’: Chernushenko
David Chernushenko says he is the best candidate to lead the Green Party because he can “get votes from all kinds of different Canadians.” Mr. Chernushenko, 43, is running against former Sierra Club executive director Elizabeth May and real estate agent Jim Fannon for the leadership of the party, and although he says the Conservative […]
Nunavut needs ‘provincial-like’ authority to help manage Canada’s Arctic sovereignty: Nunavut Premier
Inuit have occupied and flourished in what is now the Canadian Arctic for thousands of years. Our unbroken tenure gives us a unique claim and understanding of the requirements of living in and protecting the North. Because of the impacts of climate change and concerns about national security, questions of Canadian sovereignty and security along […]
Canada hasn’t turned its back on Kyoto, says Ambrose
Canada’s Environment Minister says the Conservative government hasn’t given up yet on Kyoto. In an interview with the Western Standard at the end of July, Rona Ambrose said that her government is focused on “equal partnerships with the private sector,” technological advances and pollution controls and played down suggestions that the Conservatives are moving toward […]
