Delacourt off writing her Martin book
The Life of Paul, Part I… Don’t worry if you don’t see Susan Delacourt’s byline in the National Post for awhile, she hasn’t crossed over to the Other Side too. Instead, she’s on leave for a couple of months to write up the first half of the book she’s doing on Paul Martin’s push for […]
“If you were John Manley’s top spinmeister, how would you advise the Finance Minister out of the mess he’s in for calling the chief executive of the CIBC over the refinancing of the Ottawa Senators hockey team? And how did this story get out there anyway?”
Warren Kinsella Liberal strategist “None of us know, for sure, what is going to happen to the Senators. But the future does not look bright, to say the least. “The manufactured outrage over John Manley’s decision to do his job — to represent his constituents in a sensible wayis typical chickenshit Ottawa politics. John Manley […]
Give me a break media
I’ve been thinking, national reporters are very dangerous animals who need to be fed daily and if they don’t find food, they’ll eat you alive. The “food” is obviously news and if there’s no news, they’ll invent it. Did you ever see a newspaper with a blank front page with the headline, “THERE IS NO […]
Scandiffio joins Manley’s office as director of communications
Mike Scandiffio, a former news editor at The Hill Times, who left HT in September, 2000, after seven years on the job, to join CTV NewsNet’s Mike Duffy as his producer, last week joined the ranks of Hill staffers when he was hired by Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister John Manley as his new […]
Lord Guillon of the hot room gets a jubilee medal
Yes Sir, No Sir… Parliamentary Press Gallery Chief Terry Guillon has become something of a monarchy fan since travelling across Canada with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip last October. Their majesties gave our man an autographed framed portrait of themselves and a Golden Jubilee medal, which he is allowed to wear on his jacket at […]
Tory leadership luncheon on Jan. 23 in Vancouver
NDP members to vote on new leader next week in Big Smoke MONDAY, Jan. 13 House Sitting — The House is not sitting this week but will resume sitting again on Monday, Jan. 27 after a six-week long Christmas break in the constituencies. For further information, please contact the Government House Leader’s Office at (613) […]
Another hill scribe crosses over to the other side
Out with the Old (job), in with the New… Hill Times scribe and former CTV producer Mike Scandiffio gave himself a baptism of fire when he decided to kick off 2003 by changing careers. Mike just joined a growing list of Hill reporters who have been lured over to the government camp, starting work last […]
Trudeau’s decisive galvanic effect on Nationalism
With his shrug to English Canadians, Trudeau gave us a paradoxical brand of nationalism that flourishes today The puzzle about Pierre Elliot Trudeau – one of his many, if not innumerable, puzzles and paradoxes – is how someone so utterly indifferent to English-Canadian nationalism could have had such a decisive and galvanic effect upon it. […]
Teachers want to know: ‘Are lobbyists necessary?’: Some handy tips of survival with and without a lobbyist in Ottawa
The naming of the session was brilliant: “Lunch with the Lobbyists.” “Lunch” and “lobbyists” — two words, two thoughts, that go together like, like, gin and tonic, or Wayne and Shuster — a perfect pair of nouns that conjure up the perfect stereotype: What do lobbyists do? Of course, they lunch. Well, we’ll have to […]
The U.S. has no choice
No wonder the U.S. government continues to consider Canada as a source of potential security threats. Canada’s External Affairs Minister Bill Graham has refused to sanction the activities of the humanitarian wing of Hezbollah. His rational that the humanitarian arm has no relation to the militant arm is ludicrous. Any organization that sponsors terrorism is […]
