Prime Minister not happy with The Globe and Mail
As the world turns in Ottawa… Last week the Prime Minister gave several interviews, but in the list of the media organization the CTV and The Globe and Mail were excluded. According to my sources, an interview was offered to CTV, but the offer was withdrawn when the PMO found out that the interview would […]
Marianne Goodwin leaves for Montenegro
Well, at least she has had the training for it… Marianne Goodwin is going to the Balkans. Ms. Goodwin, who stepped down in February after a year as PMO chief press secretary, has landed a new job — in the Balkans. Ms. Goodwin will be advising the political parties of Montenegro on how to perform […]
List in Hill Times creates buzz: I can’t believe the impact that your list has made’
Senior staffers in the Prime Minister’s Office pressured MPs and Cabinet ministers to contact The Hill Times in order to pledge their support to the Prime Minister after the weekly independent newspaper published a list of who supports who in the Jean Chretien-Paul Martin nasty political battle. A senior Liberal source told The Hill Times […]
Behind Prime Minister Chretien: Goodale [Response to Who’s supporting who, June 10/02, June 17/02]
With respect to the various lists of Members of Parliament which The Hill Times has been publishing in recent weeks, I consider this a divisive “mug’s game” in which I do no wish to participate. I am pleased to be a member of the Prime Minister’s Cabinet and I support the Prime Minister. Public Works […]
Parliamentary calendar: Parliament Hill prepares for G8 demonstrations: MPs across the land hit the barbecue circuit as very interesting summer of 2002 heats-up
MONDAY, JUNE 24 St. Jean Baptiste Day — It’s Quebec’s national holiday today. House Sitting — The House has adjourned for the summer and is scheduled to return on Monday, Sept. 16. For more information on the House’s timetable, please contact the Government House Leader’s Office at (613) 952-4930. TUESDAY, JUNE 25 Senate Sitting — […]
Rumours heat up on what’s next for Ottawa Citizen
More from the Mills rumour mill… One piece of speculation doing the rounds at Baxter Road in Ottawa, home to The Ottawa Citizen, is that we could soon find ourselves with another Heard on the Hill, as in banker’s spokesman Ray Heard as the next publisher of The Ottawa Citizen. Word is he has an […]
PMO vetted pro-Martin staffers: But Prime Minister’s Office denies playing heavy hand
Paul Martin’s dismissal from Cabinet proved to be a public relations nightmare for the Prime Minister’s Office, but the move has allowed the Liberal leader to regain complete control over the appointment of senior political aides to his Cabinet. Sources close to The Hill Times report that from the first day the Liberals won power […]
I fully support the PM: Minister Anderson [Response to Who’s supporting who]
Ever since your paper predicted my certain political demise to the last election — the election in which I almost tripled my best-ever majority — I haven’t paid much attention to your publication. After this egregious error I would have thought your publication would have tried to be more accurate in your coverage of me. […]
Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s ‘ethics package’ is really a work of deception and defence: Lobbyists may not work for a minister and lobby the minister, but their lobbying firm can continue to lobby the minister on behalf of private interests
Continuing his pattern of governing with deception and hypocrisy (instead of governing with integrity as he promised in 1993), Prime Minister Jean Chr tien introduced yet another so-called “ethics package” on June 11, again filled with vague, ambiguous or weak rules and empty promises. Chretien trumpeted the release of the guide for Cabinet ministers — […]
Izzy will be talking to himself
Within the tribe of journalism, Russell Mills, the publisher of the Ottawa Citizen whose firing by owner Izzy Asper has just set off a storm of protest, was always considered more an adroit survivor than a crusader. He did his principal job of making the Citizen profitable very well. He also did well by allowing […]
