C-24 won’t be complete without C-34
Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley returned to Parliament last week to remind Senators that Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s Political Finance Bill leaves open a major loophole allowing donors to make secret donations to political trust funds. The Senators on the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee heard that Bill C-24, officially known as an Act to […]
Canadian help key to build International University of Baghdad, says an academic
Canada has an opportunity to play a leading role in the reconstruction of Iraq by helping to build an international university in the Iraqi capital city, says an Iraqi-born Canadian academic. Tareq Ismael, a professor of political science at the University of Calgary, is currently in the process of promoting the idea of building an […]
MPs’ and Senators’ Birthdays
*Treasury Board President Lucienne Robillard, 58, June 16, 1945 *Ind. Sen. P. Michael Pitfield, 66, June 18, 1937 *Liberal Sen. Rose-Marie Losier-Cool, 66, June 18, 1937 *PC Sen. John Lynch-Staunton, 73, June 19, 1930 *NDP MP Bill Blaikie, 52, June 19, 1951 *Liberal MP Beth Phinney, 65, June 19, 1938 *Ind. MP Pierre Brien, 33, […]
Media’s due diligence?
Recently, The Toronto Star ran a picture of veteran anti-smoking zealot Garfield Mahood on page B4 proclaiming the news that he and two others had received the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medals for their work against smoking. Mahood, 62, has been executive director of the non-profit — but hearty recipient of taxpayers’ cash — Non-Smoker’s Rights […]
CanWest cuts creates buzz on the Hill
It didn’t take long for political columnist and author Susan Delacourt’s phone to start ringing off the hook after she was cut earlier this month from the National Post. Politicians, political types and colleagues phoned to offer their best wishes, as well as to express surprise over the dramatic layoffs which eliminated her job as […]
MPs’ and Senators’ Birthdays
*Bloc MP Ghislain Lebel, 57, Feb. 17, 1946 *Bloc MP Michel Gauthier, 53, Feb. 18, 1950 *Secretary of State David Kilgour, 62, Feb. 18, 1941 *Tory Sen. David Tkachuk, 58, Feb. 18, 1945 *Alliance MP Art Hanger, 60, Feb. 19, 1943 *Liberal MP Guy St-Julien, 63, Feb. 19, 1940 *Tory MP Bill Casey, 58, Feb. […]
No longer benefit of doubt
Only one good reason exists for not describing President George W. Bush and all the officials around him who urged on the invasion of Iraq in order to rid the country of its weapons of mass destruction as outright liars. One powerful factor would always have inhibited these leaders, including Britain’s Tony Blair, from engaging […]
Senate votes down C-10B changes
An all-party Senate committee rejected several amendments made to cruelty to animal legislation by the House of Commons last week, giving the government another nosebleed over this controversial bill which has been lobbed back and forth between the two Chambers several times since last December. The latest disagreement between the MPs and Senators over Bill […]
Radwanski’s saga unfolds
Regarding “Privacy and access should come under one roof,” (The Hill Times, June 9.) It was a very well-written article by Paco Francoli. It seems the Privacy Commissioner George Radwanski does not seem to understand the meaning of “original copy.” Do keep me informed as his saga unfolds. Sunil Dholakia Toronto, Ont. Regarding “Privacy and […]
Merits of Canada’s firearms
Arguments on the merits of Canada’s firearms laws in your paper over the past several weeks, in articles and lettersranging from the astutely analytical to the testily defensive — have among them, so far as I recall, ignored large changes in public policy and crime rates during the past 40 years. Over this span of […]
