Do newspapers have ghosts?
Maybe. Either that, or we have a hoax on our hands or, even stranger, someone has found a way to keep a real secret in this burg. I’m referring to the http://www.ottawajournal.com web page. Under the banner of the paper that died more than two decades ago, the following message appears: “On September 1st, 2003, […]
“Were backbencher Carolyn Parrish’s comments that Americans are ‘bastards’ overplayed by the media?”
Warren Kinsella Liberal strategist “No, the media did the job it was supposed to do. What she said was newsworthy. “In another time, in another circumstance, I would say she deserved a paragraph in a ‘Notebook’ column, no more. After all, Ms. Parrish is not a member of Cabinet or even a Minister of State […]
Martin’s choice
Originally, when the Ottawa Citizen, to its credit, broke the story on Feb. 17 that multimillionaire and Liberal leadership candidate Paul Martin had been briefed over the years by the Prime Minister’s ethics counsellor while he was finance minister on his multinational shipping company, Canada Steamship Lines, The Hill Times thought the story said more […]
Cyrus Reporter is leaving the building as of March 24.
It’s time we formed a club… As you may have noticed in F. Abbas Rana’s Hill Climbers last week (March 3), Industry Minister Allan Rock’s long-time right-hand man Cyrus Reporter is leaving for new pastures. What you may not have heard is a key consideration in making the move is that he and wife Joanne […]
NDP will throw a party for Alexa McDonough’s homecoming dinner & ceilidh on March 15 in Halifax
MONDAY, MARCH 10 House Sitting — The House is not sitting this week, but will resume sitting again on Monday, March 17, after a two-week break for the MPs who are in the 301 constituencies and on trips abroad. For more information, please call the Government House Leader’s Office at (613) 952-4930. My Trudeau Years […]
Canada-U.S. name-calling
Regarding last week’s letter to the editor “Parrish’s lack of upbringing” (The Hill Times, March 3). Would someone please remind letter-writer Gene M. Simon of Williamsville, N.Y. that Canadians were fighting Hitler (and dying) for two years before the United States decided to get in the game, and then, only because of Pearl Harbour, and […]
Collenette and Dhaliwal on the blower
Time will tell… Staffers for Transport Minister David Collenette and Natural Resources Minister Herb Dhaliwal were quickly on the phone last Monday in response to an item in this column on the possibility of a Cabinet shuffle before the House returns from its March break. I’d suggested that their bosses, along with Intergovernmental Affairs Minister […]
Vanclief hires adviser
Minister of Agriculture, Lyle Vanclief has hired a new assistant for his ministerial political office. Isabelle Mignault, started her new job as policy adviser to Minister Vanclief last week. The 27-year-old policy adviser who is a native of St. Pascal Kamouraska, Que., has a BA in political science and her MA in analytical policy from […]
It’s personal now: Parrish’s appalling comments
WASHINGTON, D.C.– “Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.” Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish This really should be a “more in sorrow than in anger” column. Somewhere there should be a residual memory that a diplomat, even an ancien diplomat , speaks and writes in modulated tones expressing regret for misunderstanding. We should respond in calm dulcet […]
Post’s loss will be someone else’s gain…
I was saddened to hear that the National Post decided Wednesday to let go veteran business journalist and former bureau chief Alan Toulin, along with an as-yet undefined number of other reporters across the country, as owners CanWest News Service and the Asper family looked to cut costs and losses. The axe caught Al by […]
