It’s a coat of many colours for Canada’s first Chief Herald
Six to eight-month waiting list of Canadians willing to pay up to $2,300 for their own coat of arms, busy busy Robert Watt says it was simply a hobby that somehow turned into a job. In fact Canada’s Chief Herald, the person responsible for approving all the country’s colourful coats of arms, admits he can’t […]
New Grit MPs vow to put constituents first and to toe party line
All they want is to be pointed in the right direction so they can get down to business. Parliament’s 47 newly-elected MPs arrived in Ottawa last week full of new ideas and excitement, spending their first day on the Hill meeting their caucus mates and finding out where the bathrooms are. Out of the lot, […]
Speaker’s job higher profile: Grit MP Tom Wappel throws hat into Speaker race, Peter Milliken urges MPs to look at the big picture
House Speaker candidate Tom Wappel is promising a much higher public profile for the job, especially in explaining the decisions of the secretive and powerful Commons Board of Internal Economy. Mr. Wappel (Scarborough Southwest, Ont.), who is one of a handful of Liberals running for the job on Jan. 29, said the Board of Internal […]
The only Trudeau collector’s book worth buying is Maclean’s
Pierre Trudeau was still warm when editors at several of the country’s top publishing houses started working on the quickie commemorative P.E.T. books that are jamming the book-stores this Christmas season. And, if you think that’s in bad taste, then you won’t want to go near most of the stuff that publishers have churned out […]
Not a single new visible minority MP elected in House this fall: Canada’s minorities under-represented in new Parliament of 2001 with loss of Ray Chan and Gordon Earle
In the wake of the Nov. 27 federal election, everyone outside of the governing Liberals seems to be disappointed with one thing or another. One thing that deserves-more attention is the lack of diversity within the House of Commons. There were no more than 15 visible minority Members of Parliament prior to this fall’s election. […]
There’s no poll like an old poll, Camp discovers its propinquity
I came across an old poll the other day — a 17-year-old poll conducted by by Arthur J. Finkelstein & Associates and commissioned by the National Citizens’ Coalition. The survey sample was 1,014 voters and was taken in May, 1983, on the eve of the Progressive Conservative leadership convention that would choose Brian Mulroney from […]
The night CTV’s Ivan Fecan gushed over the prime minister
Is it just me, or did anybody else find it odd that Ivan Fecan, chairman and CEO of the CTV television network, played the role of lead cheer-leader at a Toronto fundraising dinner for Prime Minister Jean Chretien last week. Just a day before the CRTC approved the $2.3-billion takeover bid by BCE Inc. of […]
Rookie campaign manager pulls one off for Liberal Kraft Sloan [York North riding]
Sarah Dover took her environmental pizzazz to Grit MP Karen Kraft Sloan’s successful bid in York North Ascant two days before the writ was dropped, Sarah Dover was given an hour to decide whether or not she would accept an offer to manage her first political campaign. On Oct. 20, Tom Ballint phoned the 31-year-old […]
Foreigners like Canadians don’t count within European Union: bureaucrats feel free to engage in hostilities with Canada and so also in trade policy, Canada is less important
The European Union — what is it and what does it mean to Canada? European Union began in 1957 when six European countries agreed to create the European Common Market. A common market is fundamentally a trade deal: the parties agree to create a tariff — and trade-barrier free area among themselves, and also agree […]
International laws needed to curb the “dark side of the Internet”
Senator Poulin says in borderless world of light-speed Internet, multi-lateral agreements will be imperative Embracing technology is unavoidable if a country is to compete internationally, but the potential consequences must be weighed. As developed countries compete for the benefits that come with new technological advances, it is important to take the time to evaluate the […]
