Liberals to return Jan. 21 for national caucus meeting on Hill. Parliamentary Calendar
MONDAY, JAN. 7 House Sitting — The House is currently taking its six-week Christmas break and is scheduled to return on Monday, January 28. SATURDAY, JAN. 12, 2002 Media Club Freelance Seminar — Five experts will advise seminar participants on how to market their work. Time: 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Place: Dining room, National […]
Our governments should explain why they don’t do things too: Governing’s about making choices, so it makes sense for them to let public in on what those choices are
It’s calledHow to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk . Authored more than 20 years ago by two New York moms, it’s still available in bookstores. A wonderful Christmas present — even for the childless; indeed, perhaps especially for those whose exposure to kids is intermittent — it’s one of […]
Want a job in Calder’s office? Answer 30-question political pop quiz: Liberal MP Murrary Calder’s EA Richard McGuire uses political questions in bid to fing successful Hill staffers
Richard McGuire, executive assistant to Ontario Liberal MP Murray Calder, has come up with an interesting human resources idea to help him hire Hill staffers and it sounds a little like a quiz from Reach for the Top. When Mr. Calder’s “very special assistant” Sandra Jackett decided she would move back to her hometown of […]
Senator Macquarrie urged open mind on international relations: ‘If you don’t talk to your enemy, who are you going to make peace with?’ — Tory Senator Heath Macquarrie
It was June 1978. I was then Tory MP Heath Macquarrie’s research assistant and we were sitting in Alexandria, Egypt in a meeting with the now late president Anwar Sadat and then vice-president Hosni Mubarak. Mr. Macquarrie turned to me and asked if I had any questions for the Egyptian President. This was the measure […]
Happy Birthday Mr. PM, here’s looking at you John and Jean: Across the country, political history buffs throw birthday celebrations for Canada’s first Prime Minister
Looking for an excuse to party it up Friday night? Look no farther than Canadian history. Jan. 11 marks the 187th birthday of none other than Sir John A. Macdonald, our first prime minister, Father of Confederation, and, above all, a wily politician who truly loved a party. While Macdonald’s birthday isn’t marked the way […]
Emeritus Senator
Editorial He called himself “Emeritus Senator.” We gave him the title “Campaign Doctor” and for the entire 2000 election campaign Heath Macquarrie, then 81 years old, filed a steady stream of election campaign columns for The Hill Times. Often a political book reviewer for our newspaper and a columnist, we gave the Parliamentary veteran, retired […]
Federal cabinet shuffle expected, really really: Alfonso Gagliano’s unlikely public accusations put him on shakier cabinet ground
The question is no longer when, but how big. According to Radio-Shuffle FM, Prime Minister Jean Chretien is going to shuffle his cabinet either this week or next so ministers will be in their new roles by the time the House reconvenes on Jan. 28, Liberal sources say. The Prime Minister seems to be favouring […]
Senate Finance Committee to investigate cabinet power: ‘Whole process of seeking approval from Parliament’ should be tightened up: Senator Murray
Members of the influential Senate Finance Committee have been trying to follow the money, but are noticing Parliament is increasingly getting left out. As a result, Senators on the committee are launching a special study into the new ways Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s cabinet is spending money without Parliamentary input. The committee, which is closely […]
MCDONALD LEAVES THE HILL TIMES, FRANCOLI MOVES IN
Goodbye, hello…Terry McDonald, the only female still photographer in the 350-member Parliamentary Press Gallery and “Hill Climbers” columnist for the past two years, has left The Hill Times for a government job. Ms. McDonald, 31, started a new job in communications in the federal Department of Indian and Northern Affairs last week. Ms. McDonald, who […]
‘It’s not dead’: Libs to revive pay project: Robillard’s committee balked at huge price tag, suspects Steve Hindle
The government’s massive undertaking to reclassify every job in the estimated 150,000- member federal public service is expected to be revived within weeks, this after suddenly vanishing from the government’s agenda early last year. The Universal Classification Standard (UCS) has been called one of the “largest, most labour intensive internal exercises ever undertaken” by the […]
