HT has depth
Regarding The Hill Times, I just started accessing your website within the last month, it was a pleasure to find it. There isn’t nearly the political depth of information out here in Calgary in the media, so keep up the great coverage! Jim Vavra Calgary, Alta. Regarding The Hill Times, I just started accessing your […]
Check that list and check it twice (or six times)…
Check that list and check it twice (or six times)… If your job involves trying to keep track of who says what in the Commons, you’d better make sure you have the right seating plan to refer to. The return of Parliament from its long Christmas break last week involved a lengthy game of musical […]
Campaign Finance Bill
Government House Leader Don Boudria introduced the long-awaited Campaign Finance Bill last week (Jan. 29) in the House of Commons and some of the top PMO players were out spinning the merits of the bill. Eddie Goldenberg , the PM’s chief policy adviser, briefed reporters in a “lock-up” during Question Period before the bill was […]
A message to First Ministers: From Elston
As Canada’s provincial and territorial premiers deliberate on the future of our healthcare system, we remind them that new medicines are part of the solution and ask for their assurances that Canadians will have access to the best medicines that will save or improve their lives. New medicines are valuable: their discovery means Canadians often […]
Budget notes…
Budget notes… All eyes seem to be looking to Feb. 25 — the traditional “last Tuesday in February” — for Finance Minister John Manley’s first budget. Some of Mr. Manley’s thunder will likely be stolen this week, however. If he is true to form, Mr. Chretien will stamp his name all over the healthcare issue […]
House takes fight to Supreme Court
The House will fight to prevent Commons’ employees from taking discrimination complaints to the Canadian Human Rights Commission and has decided to bring the battle all the way to the Supreme Court. Canadian Alliance MP John Reynolds (West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast, B.C.), a spokesperson for the Commons Board of Internal Economy which represents the House on […]
House still has to deal with redistribution of ridings: This issue has yet to be seriously debated in House of Commons
In the March 18, 2002, issue of The Hill Times you published an article on the proposed redistribution of House of Commons seats that will see the federal Parliament grow from 301 to 308 seats. This article “House of Commons to jump from 301 to 308 seats after 2004,” dealt with some of the major […]
Global protests against war
The reason so many people braved to the cold to voice their objections last weekend to the war on Iraq is quite simple. Peace is right and this war would be wrong, and yet the simple truth of that does not appear to be clear to many world leaders. So the protesters find it necessary […]
Diverse opinions in media?
TORONTO–A funny thing is happening at the God channel. People are taking notice of it. It’s not really the God channel, of course. It’s Crossroads Television Systems, or CTS. And, as the name implies, it is licensed under CRTC’s religious programming, broadly defined by them as “anything directly relating to, inspired by, arising by, or […]
This week [in Parliament]
The Senate returns this week, while the House continues work on a number of bills, including Bill C-6, an Act to Establish a Centre for the Resolution of First Nations’ Specific Claims, and Bill C-20, which proposes to close several loopholes in child pornography laws and increases the maximum jail time for abandoning a child […]
