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 […]
I support the Prime Minister: Minister Graham [Response to Who’s support who? A revised list of the Grit caucus, June 17/02]
When your article in last week’s issue of The Hill Times was brought to my attention (“Who’s supporting who? A revised list of Grit Caucus,” June 17), I was surprised to find myself listed in a manner suggesting I would not be supporting the Prime Minister in the Liberal Party’s upcoming leadership review. For the […]
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 […]
New House of Commons Estimates Committee could be ‘biggest committee in town’: Minister Don Boudria. Meeting six hours a week, new committee could operate as ‘second Chamber,’ says Boudria
The new House Committe on Government Operations and the Estimates could end up acting like a “second Chamber,” says Government House Leader Don Boudria and the committee’s first chair agrees. “It could almost be the committee of committees. That would be the biggest committee in town,” said Mr. Boudria in an interview with The Hill […]
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 […]
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 […]
“Do you agree with political columnist Richard Gwyn’s opinion that the PM is working on a ‘let-me-stay-so-I-can-leave-with-dignity’ strategy?” [The Spin Doctors panel]
Tim Powers Canadian Alliance strategist “The Prime Minister is a self-described fighter. It is this fighting spirit, driven by raw emotion, which is guiding him now. Dignity for fighters comes not from periods of tranquillity but rather through the pummelling of a contender. “Our pugilistic PM’s pride, fueled by the behaviour of the churlish, impatient […]
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. […]
It is Asper’s right to fire Mills
In the midst of the ongoing controversy over the firing of The Ottawa Citizen’s publisher Russell Mills, people seem to be confusing two separate issues: the right to do something versus the right way to do it. The Aspers, as owners of CanWest, had every right to fire Mills and replace him with whatever publisher […]
Who’s supporting who? A new revised list of Liberal Caucus
CHRETIEN SUPPORTERS: 69 *Herb Dhaliwal (Vancouver South-Burnaby, B.C.) *David Anderson (Victoria, B.C.) *Stephen Owen (Vancouver Quadra, B.C.) *Joe Peschisolido (Richmond, B.C.) *Anne McLellan (Edmonton West, Alta.) *David Kilgour (Edmonton Southeast, Alta.) *Rey Pagtakhan (Winnipeg North-St. Paul, Man.) *Ralph Goodale (Wascana, Sask.) *Dominic LeBlanc (Beausejour-Petitcodiac, N.B.) *Claudette Bradshaw (Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, N.B.) *Robert Thibault (West Nova, N.S.), *Rodger […]
