Trinity doesn’t have highest alumni
Regarding the story “‘There is a spiritual dimension to people’: Diane Ablonczy.” The sub-headline for Kathryn Ritter’s Dec. 2 article about Alliance MPs who attended Trinity Western University is inaccurate. It claims that Trinity boasts the highest number of alumni in the House. The accompanying article qualifies this claim by stating that Trinity has the […]
Rock weighs his options
First Al Gore, Next Al Rock? The battle over membership rules this month could decide if Industry Minister Allan Rock – or anyone else with serious political ambitions – bothers to go up against Paul Martin in the leadership race. The buzz at the media Christmas soiree thrown last month by Mr. Rock and his […]
Alliance Leader Harper hires a new associate director of operations in OLO
Canadian Alliance Leader and Leader of the Official Opposition Stephen Harper has a new associate director of operations in his office in Ottawa. Stephen Brooks started with Mr. Harper last week. Before hiring Mr. Brooks, Tom Flanagan, the University of Calgary politics professor and longtime Reform and Alliance adviser, was pulling triple duties. Mr. Flanagan, […]
Don’t listen to Kingsley
Regarding “‘Redistribution is pain’: Jean-Pierre Kingsley,” (The Hill Times, Nov. 25, 2002). I cannot believe that people would take Canada’s Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley’s recommendations seriously. Here is a man who went after some little guy in the Maritimes for posting election results on his computer, when all someone in British Columbia would have […]
CBC TV poaches another CP Hill scribe
CP Gal Gets Amman… Popular Canadian Press reporter Nahlah Ayed is no longer in the Parliamentary Press Gallery. Indeed, she is no longer with CP. The CBC, which a year ago poached Jennifer Ditchburn from the wire service’s Ottawa bureau has now stolen away Ms. Ayed. Her deal is a little different, however. Instead of […]
PM likely to step down early: Cabinet minister’s EA
Prime Minister Jean Chretien is likely to leave office before September, 2003, because Liberal MPs will continue to ratchet up the pressure on him to quit once the federal budget is released next month, says an executive assistant to a federal Cabinet minister who is a staunch supporter of the Prime Minister’s. “I don’t expect […]
A bag of wishes for 2003
In keeping with the spirit of the new year The Hill Times has a wish list for 2003. Here it is: that the U.S. not strike Iraq; that Saskatoon Independent MP Jim Pankiw put a sock in it; that Parliament enact legislation to stop human cloning; that MPs, who can, will sing snappy Canadian and […]
No shortage of fights left in Liberal Party
Bonnie Brown, Domenic LeBlanc, Steve Mahoney: Once again, it’s “shuffle time” in Ottawa and these are only a few of the names being tossed around these days. While many politicians are vacationing down South, Prime Minister Jean Chretien has decided to remain in Canada and, from his cottage in Harrington Lake, Que., is mulling over […]
LPCO to hear appeal in Perth-Middlesex riding
The Ontario wing of the Liberal Party of Canada is scheduled to hear an appeal this week in Stratford, Ont., from Grit Brian Innes, who unsuccessfully tried to win the controversial nomination for the Perth-Middlesex riding last month but who claims the result of the nail-biter vote was too close and that there are concerns […]
Where’s the media?
Regarding the editorial, “Broken estimates process” (The Hill Times, Dec. 16, 2002). Exactly. We, the people, depend on the press to report on things that really matter. Not that which is sensational, but important to the public interest. Why on earth should these huge cost overruns on the gun registry come as a “surprise” to […]
