Whelan does some good
We have heard a lot of criticism recently about our government’s role in the SARS health crisis in Toronto. But, let’s not forget to celebrate when our elected officials get something right. Yesterday, Susan Whelan, Minister of International Cooperation, made an announcement that will save half a million children’s lives. Our long-cherished, but rather faded, […]
Patrick Watson’s elitist idea
TORONTO–Globe and Mail columnist Roy MacGregor called it “an idea almost too easy to ridicule.” The National Post wrote, “nothing dies harder than a bad idea.” Whatever you call it, former CBC chairman Patrick Watson’s proposal for a “public” newspaper is both extraordinarily stupid, because it wouldn’t sell, and strikingly arrogant, because Watson assumes the […]
Post’s ‘Dead Pool’ list gets bigger
The Dead Pool?… The last thing Paul Wells did after quitting as the National Post’s marquee Ottawa columnist last Wednesday morning was to leave a message on his bureau answering machine announcing that he no longer worked at the paper and that friends could reach him at home, but he wouldn’t be “too helpful” to […]
McSweeney, Goldenberg, Hartley, Munson, Wackid, Macerollo, Armour, Prest, Yanover and Murphy are the tops
Drum roll, please. The No. 1 Terrific Twenty-Five Staffer on Parliament Hill is the Canadian Alliance’s Eastern Ontario outreach coordinator Colin McSweeney. Really. The outgoing Hill staffer, easily took top spot in total votes cast in the all-around terrific category in the third annual “The Hill Times Terrific Twenty-Five Staffers” third annual survey. Colin McSweeney […]
‘Time to give Paul Martin the keys to party’: Mills
TORONTO–Toronto veteran Liberal MP Dennis Mills, who at one time contemplated running for the Grit leadership and then dropped out, is now throwing his support behind the party’s juggernaut, Paul Martin. In an exclusive interview with The Hill Times, Mr. Mills said he also now wonders what the point of the Liberal leadership race really […]
Martinites bristle over coup, putsch accusations
MPs who support Paul Martin are bristling over accusations that they’re working behind the scenes to slow or kill Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s legislative legacy agenda last week. The accusations surfaced a day after more than 100 MPs and Senators who back Mr. Martin crowded into a local arena on the home turf of leadership […]
Bush Administration turning its back on emerging international legal system, Mr. Prime Minister
PARLIAMENT HILL — Dear Prime Minister. You have done the right thing in delaying Canada’s decision about whether or not to participate in the U.S. ballistic Missile Defence Program. I urge you to maintain a wary stance. Do not be taken in by fraudulent claims that this is about the defence of North America. It […]
You call this a leadership race?
Commentators covering the Liberal leadership debate in Edmonton last weekend unanimously decreed that it was boring and bland, if not comatose and constipated. Except for one shot by Deputy Prime Minister John Manley at former finance minister Paul Martin over who had contributed how much to Martin’s campaign, nobody said anything much about anything or, […]
House Foreign Affairs Committee split on NMD
At least half of the MPs on the prestigious Commons Foreign Affairs and International Trade Committee still publicly say that they don’t have enough or adequate information to support Canada’s potential role in U.S. National Missile Defence (NMD) program, according to a survey conducted by The Hill Times. The Hill Times contacted all 18 MPs […]
Gun registry deceptive
Dr. Robert Cushman’s letter “Health pros support gun control,” (The Hill Times, April 14) is yet another attempt to take taxpayers off the true issues facing the Canadian Firearms Program (CFP). Simply put, the entire program has been presented to Canadians in a cloud of deception. The federal government knew from the beginning that it […]
