Forget the slow boat they’ll be jetting to China…
Ottawa Citizen news digger Glen McGregor and his wife Ottawa Citizen columnist Shelley Page are also adding to the Hill’s growing adoption club and will be heading off to China next month to embrace a sister for their daughter Cleo. The McGregors got word of their new baby just before the House rose for the […]
“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 […]
Yanks, Americans
Regarding Gene M. Simon’s letter to the editor last week in The Hill Times (March 3) from Williamsville, N.Y. Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish’s comment was far too broad. I have great American friends although, from his tone, I doubt that Mr. Simon could ever qualify. From whom or what would he defend Canada? Millions around […]
Don’t become Rt. Hon. Member from CSL
OTTAWA–Paul Martin’s recent tangle over his “seeing eye” blind trust agreement governing his ownership of Canada Steamship Lines (CSL) has given him a newfound appreciation for the post of an appointed, rather than an independent, ethics counsellor. The former finance minister and leadership hopeful, who still advocates creating an independent ethics watchdog to replace Howard […]
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 […]
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 […]
And for $550 we’ll send you the fridge…
The National Citizens Coalition must have one heck of a fundraising system going. It must be costing the organization a fortune to run all those billboards and newspapers ads. In the last few months we’ve had attacks against Health Minister Anne McLellan over health care and Kyoto, demands for Jean Chretien to step down, and […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
