Liberal leadership candidates are failing to harness the power of the web
The Liberals have just lost a fleeting opportunity to renew, grow and attract significant voter attention. The sale of memberships has closed and the eleven leadership candidates’ stone-age web sites have done little to bring new, young liberals into the tent. Most sites have serious navigation challenges which often mask where things are and what […]
Harper the ‘man in the arena’, deserves more flowers than brickbats
Recently, perhaps reflecting an “end of days” silly summer season, we have seen a certain number of stories designed to fill column inches rather than enlighten. These include the non-meeting between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Francophonie head and the prime minister’s role in evacuating Canadians from Lebanon. Regarding the former, the Canadian Press […]
G-8 leaders substituted illusory consensus for much-needed progress
Remember the G-8 summit and its pious commitments to peace and world trade? It’s been only three weeks since a self-congratulatory conclusion and the wreckage is everywhere. A conditional signal that Hezbollah and Israel should cease fire turned out to be a green light from the U.S., endorsed by me-too Canada, for the worst Middle […]
Former Sun Media bureau chief Bill Rodgers joins Prentice’s staff
Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Jim Prentice has hired a new director of communications for his ministerial political office. Bill Rodgers, former Ottawa bureau chief for Sun media joined Minister Prentice’s (Calgary Centre-North, Alta.) ministerial political staff recently. Mr. Rodgers, 54, who was laid off by Sun Media two months ago along with 120 […]
Foreign Affairs committee meeting is a matter of accountability
In the week preceding last week’s meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, four members of Parliament, New Democrat Alexa McDonough, Liberal Bernard Patry and Bloc Québécois members Francine Lalonde and Diane Bourgeois, sent letters to the Conservative chair of the committee, Kevin Sorenson. The letter writers requested that the committee be recalled for an […]
The Spin Doctors
Mike Storeshaw Conservative Strategist “Whether it’s principled or strategic, it’s a decision-a foreign concept to previous Liberal governments, who were content when it came to the Middle East to hesitate and equivocate under the guise of neutrality and ‘nuance’. “The government under this Prime Minister isn’t neutral between a democratic state and a terrorist organization […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Give Tories benefit of the doubt: Conservative Re: “‘Federal Accountability Act’ doesn’t contain 21 promised measures” (The Hill Times, July 31). I think there is too much pessimism in Mr. Conacher’s view of the Conservative government. I am more of a optimist type of guy. I like to think that the Conservatives have accomplished more […]
Intellectuals, politicians gather for Couchiching conference in Orillia
TUESDAY, AUG. 8 Algonquin Basketry Techniques at the Canadian Museum of Civilization-Join Algonquin artist Catherine Cayer for a demonstration of traditional basketry techniques. 12 noon to 4 p.m., Aug. 8 and 9. Grand Hall, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Gatineau, Que. Free with museum admission. For more information, call 819-776-7000 or 1-800 555-5621. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 9 […]
Tories under pressure to release a credible climate change program
The Conservative government has come under intense pressure to come up with a publicly credible climate change program, and within the environmental lobby a widespread expectation has emerged that the government intends to subsidize clean coal technology and carbon storage to reduce toxic and greenhouse gas emissions. Bob Page, chair of Biocap Canada, an energy […]
Climate change the foremost environmental concern on the minds of many Canadians: Tory Sen. Ethel Cochrane
Since the Rio Summit in 1992, climate change has been the most talked about environmental concern in the country and foremost in the minds of many Canadians. At that time, Canada and 186 other countries signed the United Nations-Framework Convention on Climate Change and, in doing so, committed to the long-term goal of stabilizing greenhouse […]
