Liberal Party Rules for the Grit race: what to look for: A great deal of money will have been spent before rules come into effect
The National Post reported last week that the Liberal Party’s rules for the leadership race leading up to the convention in mid-November, 2003, are likely to be announced on Feb. 10. The Post said the party is expected to set a limit of $4- million on each candidate’s expenditures, impose a service fee of $50,000 […]
Supreme Court a leader
Quietly, and with little fanfare, the Supreme Court of Canada — which has been bringing in some progressive measures over the years to make it more accessible to the people — brought in another historic decision last week. The Supreme Court agreed to a pilot project for pre-judgment media lockups to allow reporters to be […]
It’s survival stupid, North Korea
More a cult than a country, the political equivalent of a Raelian nation-state, North Korea’s behaviour has always seemed to be harder to decode than that of any other country on the globe. An ideology of self-sufficiency piled onto pure communism that has left it poverty-stricken and backward. Bouts of mass starvation that were in […]
Grit leadership candidates to get 30,100 membership forms each
Federal Liberal leadership candidates will get at least 30,100 membership forms each for the upcoming leadership race, says the president of the party. Stephen LeDrew told The Hill Times last week that the provincial wings of the Liberal Party and the competing camps vying for the Liberal throne finally reached an understanding over the controversial […]
On guns and society: Why must Canadians drag us Americans into your gun registry argument?
WASHINGTON, D.C.–In recent weeks, Canadians have been debating two of the essential questions of society: how to mitigate violence and how to maintain health. In this round, these eternal arguments have taken the guise of the national gun registry and the Romanow report. And, as is appropriate, the cost/effectiveness of each — not the objective […]
Manley’s big gaffe
There you are, a political journalist, sitting at your desk on the Hill and the telephone rings. It’s the publisher. He has a concern about your last story. Not to worry, though. He makes it perfectly clear that even though he IS the publisher, he’s not calling as THE publisher, but only as a concerned […]
Supreme Court to allow media lockups
In what is being called an historic and ground-breaking move, the Supreme Court of Canada has given the green light to a pilot project allowing reporters to know the decisions taken by the country’s top justices in a lock-up briefing room before the briefings are made public. If the “experiment” proves successful, it will put […]
Prime Minister Chretien, here’s a legacy you can’t pass up: Canada needs a bold plan to rebuild its aid over the next five years like Norway, Netherlands and Sweden
Most Canadians would not consider being cheap to be a legacy. Especially stinginess toward the poorest people in the world. Yet stingy is probably too mild a word to describe the stunning decline in Canada’s international aid since Prime Minister Jean Chretien first came to power in 1993. According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation […]
Stormin’ Lorne unleashes some criticism
Nystrom’s Maelstrom… Well, Saskatchewan MP and NDP leadership hopeful Lorne Nystrom sure set the cat among the party pigeons last week. The leadership race had managed to go on for months without anyone paying much attention outside of the party itself and there had been barely a peep in the media about crazy social spending […]
Elinor Caplan hires a new policy adviser
Minister of National Revenue Elinor Caplan has hired a new senior policy adviser. Mark Boudreau, joined Ms. Caplan’s office last week as the new senior policy adviser replacing Katherine Cornfield who is currently on maternity leave. A native of Moncton, N.B., Mr. Boudreau, 47, received his BA in economics and political science from York University […]
