Apologies to the Glebies…
To residents of the Glebe who are not thrilled that the Ex will be around for at least one more year, more bad news. Richard Mahoney’s big summer barbecue is back with a vengeance. And apparently The Hill Times is to blame. In The Hill Times’ annual Hillites magazine an item on hot parties, I […]
Crawford joins Bill Graham’s Hill office as manager: Liberal MP Kraft Sloan hires a new LA
Foreign Affairs Minister Bill Graham has hired a new office manager for his MP’s Hill office. Lisa Crawford started her new job as manager of Mr. Graham’s Hill office last month. She has succeeded Carrie Wilson who currently has moved to Spain where she is studying Spanish and travelling throughout Europe. She also plans to […]
What Canadians need to know about mad cow disease: Over 2.8 million kilograms of potentially contaminated material was imported after 1996
Mad Cow disease, or its scientific name Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), is a fatal brain-wasting disease in cattle which was first identified in the United Kingdom in 1986. No one knows for sure how the first cow (or cows) got BSE, but we know it spread throughout Britain and eventually the world through the cannibalistic […]
Zen and the art of lobbying…
HT columnist Sean Moore is on a sabbatical from his post as public policy adviser at Gowling Lafleur Henderson, officially to catch up on some fishing and reading and recharge the old batteries. Semiofficially, he’ll also be getting started on a book on lobbying with W.T. (Bill) Stanbury, professor emeritus at UBC and author of […]
“Who or what do you think should be highlighted in the new $90-million Canada History Centre to be located in Ottawa’s old train station?”
Warren Kinsella Liberal strategist “Oh, this one is going to be fun. “There are the obvious political exhibits, of course: Pierre Trudeau’s canoe. Dief’s desk from the House of Commons. Mike Pearson’s bowtie. Jean Chretien’s water ski from the summer of 1993. “But there are also the less-obvious exhibits, once again with a decidedly political […]
Those darned Liberals
Hardly a day goes by that I don’t read letters from people complaining about the abhorrent Liberals, what with all the boondoggles and other wasteful schemes they have cooked up since they have been in power. I couldn’t agree more with those people as I am far from being a fan of the federal Liberals […]
Eggleton works on comeback
Eggs sunny side up… Former defence minister Art Eggleton is working his way back to the bacon, and word is he just might get his place back at the Cabinet table once the regime change has taken place. Eggs has been busy raising his profile, attending media and political functions on and around the Hill […]
Ottawa gets one message from business and labour: Putting a dollar figure on cost of Innovation Strategy’s engagement process would hardly do justice
Over the past two years, the federal government has made a commendable effort to highlight the human resource challenges facing our economy. An aging workforce, with growing skills shortages in critical areas as baby boomers begin to retire. Rising workplace skill requirements, outstripping our capacity to train and re-train workers. Tough global competition — a […]
Mideast about to face test
One of the most common ways so-called intractable international problems finally get resolved is by artful lying. The opposing sides agree to disagree, or pretend not to notice that the other’s interpretation of key parts of the proposed pact is entirely different from their own, and so allow a momentum to develop that bulldozes aside […]
Caccia: ‘major’ shortcomings of Environmental Assessment Act
PARLIAMENT HILL–I will put forward some of the major improvements that were made to Bill C-9 on [Canada’s Environmental Assessment Act]. I will also outline some of the major shortcomings. If time permits I will make brief comments on interventions made by my colleagues during the debate so far. The improvements are the following. It […]
