Cruel, outdated sealing [Didn’t like the anti-sealing ad: Grit Sen. Rompkey, January 31, 2005]
Regarding the letter,”Didn’t like the anti-sealing ad: Grit Sen. Rompkey,” (The Hill Times, Jan. 31). As a former Newfoundlander, I can appreciate some of Liberal Senator Bill Rompkey’s comments. But as a person who has spent the past six years observing the commercial seal hunt at close range, I feel the need to clarify some […]
Improving aboriginal health, dedicated collective effort: We need to meet challenges head on, be proactive and pre-emptive in call to action
During the last election, Prime Minister Paul Martin has set the health of Canadians as his No. 1 priority. In the latest Speech from the Throne, our government has outlined how we plan to fix health care for a generation. Over a decade this government has made significant investments in the health of Canadians and […]
Being there, Dan Dugas style: Reporter and Jean Chretien imitator, Dugas still working on his Paul Martin thing
Dan Dugas is a veteran Parliamentary reporter for Broadcast News by day, but by night, he’s a bit of a stand-up comic.Yep, for years now the 51-year-old Hill reporter has been the high-profile MC at the annual Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner where he has been cracking up audiences with his imitations of the now former […]
Dion fails to recognize pollution serious problem across country [January 31, 2005]
Regarding the letter from Environment Minister Stephane Dion published Jan. 31 in The Hill Times. The Environment Minister’s defence of Canada’s pollution record fails to recognize that pollution is a serious problem across this country. The fact is that governments and industry are making little progress in reducing the amount of pollutants being pumped into […]
SOME NOTABLE FACTS ON HEALTH: Canada sixth highest spender on health care of OECD countries
*FEDERAL HEALTH SPENDING ON HEALTH CARE ($ MILLION)*: Year2004-05 2005-06 Newfoundland$296,000,000 $350,000,000 P.E.I. $79,000,000 $94,000,000 Nova Scotia536,000,000 $635,000,000 New Brunswick$430,000,000 $509,000,000 Quebec$4,310,000,000 $5,135,000,000 Ontario$6,487,000,000 $7,855,000,000 Manitoba$699,000,000 $797,000,000 Saskatchewan$570,000,000 $708,000,000 Alberta$1,561,000,000 $1,915,000,000 British Columbia$2,399,000,000 $2,867,000,000 Yukon$19,000,000 $23,000,000 Northwest Territories $20,000,000 $25,000,000 Nunavut$19,000,000 $23,000,000 Total$17,395,000,000 $20,935,000,000 (Source: Department of Finance) *Canada is the 6 (superscript th) highest […]
Senator wants Paul Martin to decentralize bureaucracy: Percy Downe says Ottawa must follow U.K.’s lead, move bureaucrats out of nation’s capital
Agroup of Senators, led by Liberal Sen. Percy Downe, is pushing Prime Minister Paul Martin to relocate thousands of public servants from their jobs in the National Capital Area to the outlying regions of the country. Sen. Downe says bureaucratic power has been “overly centralized in the hands of a small group of institutions”in Ottawa […]
Harper shouldn’t take high moral ground [January 31, 2005]
As Kady O’Malley points out in her recent story in Bountiful in Abbott’s riding,” (The Hill Times, Jan. 31) it is truly ironic that Conservative Leader Stephen Harper should raise the issue of polygamy in the context of the same-sex marriage debate while polygamy allegedly occurs in Conservative MP Jim Abbott’s riding of Kootenay-Columbia, B.C. […]
‘Death Houses’ on Canada’s Indian reserves: There’s no safe level of asbestos exposure, not good enough to say ‘stay out of attics’
Sometimes in my job as the NDP critic for aboriginal health, I hear things that rock me. By whatever indicator or measurement of human health you use, First Nations, Inuit and Metis people consistently rank dead last. That’s because poor health is a predictable consequence of chronic, longterm poverty. In fact, if you want to […]
High-ranking Conservatives feuding over direction of their party
A feud over the direction of the Conservative Party is brewing within the highest reaches of the new party which threatens to come to a head at its first policy convention next month in Montreal. Don Plett, the party’s interim council chair, has accused his vice-chair, Brian Mitchell, of wanting to take the party more […]
Shame on Alfonso Gagliano
Alfonso Gagliano should have tried harder to remember some kind things to say about his former chief of staff, who is now deceased, Pierre Tremblay, especially in being sensitive to Mr. Tremblay’s family. Instead, Mr. Gagliano seemed to capitalize on political opportunity in order to try and further entrench the late Mr. Tremblay in the […]
