Yukon’s protected area strategy and seeking a balance: Time to end the bickering and proceed on existing measures to protect environment
WHITEHORSE, YUKON–Seeking a balance between a healthy economy and protecting the wilderness for future generations will always stimulate a thoughtful and passionate debate among Canadians. There are unique land features in each province and territory that should be protected for the future. There are Yukoners, like other Canadians, who require good paying jobs to nurture […]
Shock, awe and clash
Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Israel. “Shock and awe,” this time of crude bombs strapped around the bodies of terrorists rather than of cruise missiles and precision-guided munitions, has now been turned on us. We ought to have expected it. Al Qaeda and the other Islamic extremist organizations have been severely damaged by the war on terrorism. […]
Tory delegate selection process ‘ridiculous’
Tory organizers and party activists involved in this week’s leadership convention are pinning their hopes on a secondballot victory or later, not only because of the higher drama involved in a race widely seen as candidate Tory MP Peter MacKay’s to lose, but because of fears a first-ballot victory won’t accurately reflect the wishes of […]
Decorating Ottawa with accountability labels: Government says it’s trying to be more accountable, but it’s creating more bureaucracy
It’s becoming trendy to use the word “accountability,” but the federal government is using accountability to build entirely new bureaucracies and bureaucracies that don’t do too much of anything really. Just like access to information and the just society before it — institutionalized concepts with little meaning — Ottawa now seeks to spend its way […]
Only Coon speaks for chiefs
Regarding the article, “Showdown on Governance Act expected,” (The Hill Times, May 5), by F. Abbas Rana and Paco Francoli. I find your reporting of the FNGA to be flawed. You do not seem to grasp that the First Nations Governance Act (FNGA) is an attack on our relationship with the Crown. Have you ever […]
Showdown at House Transport Committee expected: ‘This is a committee of Parliament. It’s not a committee of the minister:’ Gallaway
A showdown between the House Transport Committee and the federal Department of Transport is looming on Monday, May 26, over the rights of the MPs on the Commons committee to obtain information from the department. Three top officials from Canadian Air Transport Security Authority (CATSA) including Jacques Duchesneau, president and chief executive officer; Michael McLaughlin, […]
Happy Auditor General [125th anniversary]
MPs celebrated the 125th anniversary of the Office of the Auditor General of Canada last week in Ottawa, not bad for an office that uncovers millions of dollars in waste and accountability each year in its regular reports to Parliament. Canadian Alliance MP John Williams, chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, told the House […]
New task for Mr. Dependable?…
Now that he has stickhandled the government advertising contract scandal to some sort of closure, perhaps Public Works and Government Services Minister Ralph Goodale might want to look into how the government keeps track of the gazillion dollars in contracts it issues every year for goods and services. If you thought Public Works kept track […]
MPs’ and Senators’ Birthdays
*National Revenue Minister Elinor Caplan, 59, May 20, 1944 *Liberal Sen. Alasdair Graham, 74, May 21, 1929 *Liberal MP Paul Macklin, 59, May 22, 1944 *Liberal Sen. Richard Kroft, 65, May 22, 1938 *Alliance MP Cheryl Gallant, 43, May 23, 1960 *Liberal MP Roger Gallaway, 55, May 23, 1948 *Tory Sen. Brenda Robertson, 74, May […]
Life on the Back Page…
First, so it’s official, a week after quitting as the National Post’s Ottawa columnist, Paul Wells was trotted out by Maclean’s magazine last week as its new back page columnist (the weekly spot once owned by Allan Fotheringham.) P.W.’s first offering will be in next week’s edition of the mag, which hits the newsstands Monday. […]
