Harper, Layton blast opposition Senate appointments
Conservative Leader Stephen Harper wasn’t amused last Thursday when Prime Minister Paul Martin designated two of his nine Senate appointees as members of the Progressive Conservative Party even though the party no longer exists. “Everyone knows that there was a fusion of the Progressive Conservative Party and the Alliance Party… the Prime Minister must be […]
RECENTLY RELEASED [Governing Education]
Governing Education, by Benjamin Levin, University of Toronto Press, 206 pages, $27.95. Blurb on the back of the jacket: “Governing Education is a unique and powerful book that provides an insider’s view of the workings of government. Benjamin Levin addresses virtually every major educational policy issue facing governments and society, and each is presented with […]
Inside Stronach’s $83,000 Montreal party: ‘Belinda should be in charge of hospitality suites from now on, of all the parties’: Postie Don Martin
Conservative Party delegates who went to the party’s first-ever policy convention recently in Montreal may have had divisive disagreements over social policy issues, but they sure agreed on one thing: rookie Conservative MP and billionaire auto parts heiress Belinda Stronach held the best bash all weekend. “Belinda should be in charge of hospitality suites from […]
New Conservatives
By most accounts, the new Conservative Party’s first-ever policy convention held in Montreal, Que., was a success.Today, the Conservatives have a real chance of winning the next federal election.The party passed some centrist resolutions, dumped some Reform/Alliance policies such as voter recall of MPs and citizen-initiated referendums, and managed to ignore and stifle some tiresome, […]
Stepping into Vienneau’s shoes as Global’s Ottawa bureau chief: ‘He was a great person, a great boss and I certainly hope that I can follow in his footsteps’
Global TV’s Jacques Bourbeau is the new Parliamentary bureau chief, but he’s also a bicycling fanatic who bikes to and from work every day, and puts another 60 kilometres at least twice a week spinning around town or in the Gatineau Park. Born and raised in Toronto, Mr. Bourbeau, 45, earned his BJ from Carleton […]
McLellan on Air India
Well, I think first of all, it doesn’t speak to Canada’s reputation. As we saw with September the 11 (superscript th) ,tragedies, we saw Madrid, tragedies can happen, acts of terrorism such as this can happen in any country. Even the most developed, the world’s only superpower had to confront this horror on September the […]
Establishing homeland security threats: Parliamentary oversight a must, says NDP MP Comartin
In the post 9/11 world there has been a great preoccupation with terrorism and homeland security. It is said, almost to the point of cliche that the world has changed. Unquestionably, the world has changed since the tragic events of 2001, but, have Canada’s security threats truly increased or are we merely more aware of […]
Getting Bombardier off welfare: The sound you’re hearing: Conservatives cosying up to vote-rich Ontario and Quebec
“It’s getting under my skin the fact that every time that we win a contract and every time that there is anything that’s being said, especially about financing, there’s always somebody somewhere coming out with some nasty remarks that basically we’re at the public trough.” These were the words of Bombardier’s then-CEO Paul Tellier in […]
Karygiannis wants Canada to give $1.7-million to Guyana
Five-term Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis, who recently returned from the South American country of Guyana, is urging the federal government to immediately donate $1.7-million to help the tiny country of about 750,000 people recover from the devastating January floods. Mr. Karygiannis (Scarborough-Agincourt, Ont.), who visited Guyana from Feb. 28 to March 2 on the request […]
Birth of a child shouldn’t become healthcare roulette: exclusion of autism treatment from Canada’s medicare
Parents so look forward to the birth of their child. But what happens when the child is born with a serious health problem? It can happen to any of us.What do we do when the worst nightmare comes true – the terrible news of a diagnosis that our child has the dreaded neurological disorder of […]
