Pallister: the Conservative MP who took down David Dingwall
At 6’8″ Conservative MP Brian Pallister is the tallest drink of water in politics. He’s also getting skilled at uncovering excessive Liberal spending. At 6′ 8″Conservative MP Brian Pallister is the tallest drink of water in politics. He towers over everyone.To scrum him is to feel lilliputian. Mr. Pallister (Portage-Lisgar, Man.) ,who is an athlete […]
CBC doesn’t need increased funding: Global’s Peter Kent
While I believe, passionately, that Canada needs a strong, publicly-funded national broadcaster, CBC TV does not need increased funding. The sorry state of the corporation today is a direct result of a chronic, misdirected fixation on its original 1950s-era mandate to provide a spectrum of local and regional television services that are irrelevant in today’s […]
How the word ‘mistake’ gets overused by newsmakers
‘Mistake’ once described some harmlessly annoying act of inattentiveness, like sitting on your sunglasses. Now it covers offences once categorized as sins or felonies. It’s a media-friendly noun made of rubber,”mistake.” No word in the English language has such flexibility. “Mistake”once described some harmlessly annoying act of inattentiveness, like sitting on your sunglasses. Now it […]
Correction [Warren Kinsella on punk rock, his new book and the real Liberal Party, in Ontario, September 26, 2005]
Regarding last week’s story, “Warren Kinsella on punk rock, his new book and the real Liberal Party, in Ontario,” (The Hill Times, Sept. 26). Warren Kinsella says he has never called any Liberal MP a “neo- Nazi.” Said Mr. Kinsella: “I’ve met the real ones for Web of Hate, and that’s not an allegation I’d […]
Missing Newsworld’s Politics
Re: “House is back, but Newman and Lessard won’t be on the air,”(The Hill Times, Sept. 26). I think that it is terrible that we won’t be able to watch Politics because of the CBC lockout; it’s one of my favourite shows on Newsworld. Judi Johnny Whitehorse,Yukon Re: “House is back, but Newman and Lessard […]
PM should step in for CBC
Re: “House is back, but Newman and Lessard won’t be on the air,”(The Hill Times, Sept. 26). I’ve heard these cleverboots trying to replace the CBC workers. I’ve heard management types say “hunnert”for “hundred,”and “pitcher”for “picture,”which told me all I needed to know about their standards of education. When I heard them refer to Smokey […]
Boot the Liberals out
Re: “Commons legislative agenda to be dominated by election call,”(The Hill Times). It isn’t just the official opposition members who want this corrupt Liberal government defeated. It’s every Canadian who has an ounce of honour, integrity and ethics. I have had American and British friends email me articles written in their newspapers about how corrupt […]
Why so much suffering in Iraq?
I am puzzled; there was far too much death and suffering when the Twin Towers were hit on 9/11; there was, and is, far too much suffering because of the hurricanes. Why then all that added suffering and death of Iraq? Stan Penner Landmark, Man. I am puzzled; there was far too much death and […]
Coffin’s light sentence
As a result of the lenient sentence handed down to Paul Coffin, it sure begs the following question: How many wrong messages did the judge send in sparing him from jail for defrauding Canadian taxpayers of more than $1.5-million? So let me get this straight. According to the results of the trial, I should be […]
Union was outmanoeuvered
Re: “House is back, but Newman and Lessard won’t be on the air,”(The Hill Times, Sept. 26).The union voted overwhelmingly, 87.3 per cent, in support of strike action on July 19. A work stoppage was clearly inevitable. Management simply outmanoeuvered the union on timing. This is our sacred collective bargaining system, working as designed! Pav […]
