A Canadian passport is a Canadian passport, Mr. Turner
Mr. Turner, what were you thinking? According to Tim Naumetz’ frontpage story in The Ottawa Citizen last week, Conservative MP Garth Turner, who represents Halton, Ont., said Canadians with two passports are not “accidental tourists” and that taxpayers might question the costs. Mr. Turner told the newspaper that he sympathizes with constituents who questioned the […]
They don’t teach mathematics in journalism schools, eh?
They don’t teach mathematics at journalism school. That must explain why news coverage based on numbers is so often mangled by media. There are many interesting examples. When Statistics Canada recently issued a news release stating the typical Canadian spends 12 days a year in traffic, journalists got excited. “A whopping 12 days!” said CTV’s […]
Karygiannis quits as Volpe’s national campaign manager
Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis (Scarborough-Agincourt, Ont.), campaign manager for Liberal leadership contestant Joe Volpe (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.), resigned from Mr. Volpe’s campaign Friday. The Canadian Press reported on Friday that the two had split over the Middle East crisis. Mr. Volpe has been a supporter of Israel’s right to self-defence and its recent air strikes against […]
Layton gets tested for toxics
Doctors drew blood from NDP Leader Jack Layton (Toronto-Danforth, Ont.) last week to test him for harmful toxics. The media event, at Toronto’s Health Services Clinic, was part of an ongoing campaign by Environmental Defence, a Toronto environmental advocacy group, to educate the public about harmful toxics that people come into contact with through consumer […]
CRTC about to set a new course under the Harper government
After some 50 years as the little broadcaster that kept growing in it’s own unique way, CHUM is selling out. Canada will have one less broadcaster on both the television and radio fronts. There’s no question that the offer to purchase by Bell Globemedia (BGM), which owns CTV, TSN, NewsNet and The Globe and Mail, […]
I have never been reluctant to speak up and work for justice: Telegdi
In his “Wiseguys” column in the July 10 issue of The Hill Times, Warren Kinsella made his regular attempt to portray me as a Nazi sympathizer, and anti-Semitic to boot. How he comes up with this nonsense is beyond me. But judge for yourself. I was not born in Canada. I was born behind the […]
Island of Montreal to be a tough battleground for Conservatives in next federal election, says pollster
The “stars are aligning” for the Tories in Quebec, but the Island of Montreal is emerging as a key battleground for the Conservatives and the Bloc Québécois, with each party hoping to win seats from a weakening Liberal stronghold, says Christian Bourque, a pollster at Léger Marketing in Montreal. “Outside the Island of Montreal, support […]
Right now, nobody does nasty better than the federal Liberals
WASHINGTON, D.C.-To be sure, “Alberta” in the form of Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper came to Washington on July 5-6, inter alia, for U.S. President George Bush’s birthday. The event was much covered in Canadian papers, and even got a certain amount of notice in U.S. media (nice photo on A-10 of The Washington Post)-if […]
PSAC leery of significant, sweeping Public Service Modernization Act
Federal public service union managers say they’re worried that hiring based on the merit principle will be thrown out the window under the new Public Service Modernization Act. “We’re fearful that it opens the door to those managers who don’t apply the test of fairness in hiring,” said John Gordon, national president of the Public […]
Air India Flight 182 Commission hearings Tuesday and Wednesday
MONDAY, JULY 17 French Ambassador Hosts a Reception-Ambassador of France and Mme. Daniel Jouanneau host guests at their residence on Sussex Drive. TUESDAY, JULY 18 Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182-The Commission will hold two days of public hearings under Commissioner John C. Major. July 18 to […]
