This week
The House is back for a four-week stint before it breaks again on April 14. Two days have been set aside to complete debate on the budget, and two more on opposition days. The Alliance is tilting toward making the gun registry the subject of its opposition day, but has also expressed interest in debating […]
Former Hill staffer on Post’s list of 50 most influential women
The National Post recently published its list of 50 of the most powerful women in Canada, “The Powerful 50,” and the list included women from a variety of fields such as politics, academia, the civil service and included such powerful names as the Chief Justice of Canada Beverley McLachlin, prominent novelist and writer Margaret Atwood, […]
R&D and pharmaceuticals: shorten approval process: While the approval period is supposed to be 345 days, in fact, it is 714 days
The pharmaceutical industry is important for the Canadian economy as well for all Canadians. As the population ages, it is crucial that this industry grows to allow the discovery of new medications. We need specifically to shorten the approval process for drug registration so that these drugs can be marketed and made available to those […]
Parliament must vote on Iraq: MPs must rely on media reports or American TV programs to find out about Chretien
PARLIAMENT HILL–Prime Minister Jean Chretien has had a way over the last nine years of adopting policies of Brian Mulroney that the Liberals once opposed, like Free Trade. In this, he has helped, at least in some quarters, to redeem Mr. Mulroney’s image. What is less openly noted is the many other ways that Chretien […]
Starting Sunday – The Trueman Show…
Okay, so that’s not its real name, but Global Television has brought alumni Anne Trueman back to its Ottawa bureau to produce the latest entry into Canada’s Sunday morning lineup of political television shows. The half-hour program, called Ottawa Inside Out will feature regular talking heads Bob Fife and Anne Dawson from the National Post, […]
Lack of leadership defines government’s online: strategy: Newly-released report portrays anxious community of high-tech workers
OTTAWA–Some of the federal public servants responsible for driving the Liberals’ ambitious e-government strategy have sent a clear message to the government that the bureaucracy lacks the leadership, qualified help, and funding to get the job done, a newly-obtained document reveals. The lengthy report, drawing on feedback gathered from officials in 12 major departments, is […]
Health research: where health and innovation intersect: Happily, conventional boundaries are dissolving between disciplines
The August, 2002 editorial of the Harvard Business Review noted, “innovation is all about breaking down silos.” If Canada is to succeed in developing new ideas and technologies and harnessing them to create a new economy built on knowledge and innovation, we must bring together diverse sectors, people, institutions and ideas to drive innovation and […]
Americans would jump to Canada’s aid in a minute
Regarding last week’s letter-to-the-editor, “American won’t be summering in Canada,” (The Hill Times, March 10). At first, I wanted to write to protest the unfortunate and thoughtless comment made by Canadian Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish, but then I read the unfortunate and thoughtless comment made by a fellow American. Sadly, the same criticisms I have […]
Conspiracy theories, eh?
Keith Stringer of Boston, Mass., can’t be a regular reader of The Toronto Star. Had he been, he couldn’t have possibly become so upset with its front-page editorial, er, Linda Diebel “story” last Sunday headlined: “Oil war: 23 years in the making.” Stringer, in a letter to the editor next day, writes, “Fair and balanced […]
Rock: Canada needs better ‘culture of commercialization’: Investors and researchers must work closer together, says Industry Minister Allan Rock
OTTAWA–Industry Minister Allan Rock, who is the lead minister of the government’s multi-billion dollar Innovation Strategy, says the country’s top thinkers and investors must learn to work better together if Canada is to thrive in today’s global economy. In a lengthy interview on the government’s innovation agenda, which is intended to make Canada one of […]
