Security grip tightens on Hill: MP’s entrance to Commons foyer to be restricted
Parliamentarians, staffers and visitors will find it a little harder to get into the Parliament Buildings today, Oct. 15, as the Commons and Senate get back into full swing after the week-long Thanksgiving break. New security measures were implemented throughout the down week in the wake of Canada’s commitment of troops and equipment to fight […]
Litmus test rests on Heritage minister Copps and her Libs
Canadians will be watching, listening, and deciding how well we do with the flick of their remotes Members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage have been tasked with reviewing the 1991 Canadian Broadcasting Act. The committee will examine six themes: contextual considerations, cultural diversity, broadcasting policy, ownership, the private-public sector mix, and production […]
Save the couch, it stays where it is, says Guillon
[Graph Not Transcribed] This old couch is no small potatoes… Who would have thought that old ripped and battered couch in the sixth-floor gallery lounge of the National Press Building was so valuable? They should have wheeled it down to the National Art Gallery a couple of weeks ago for the Antiques Roadshow and gotten […]
War on terrorism sugar-coated, has nothing to do with morals
Phony moralizing aside, nothing is relevant to America’s attacks on Afghanistan except protection and revenge [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] The “war on terrorism” has been sugar-coated, packaged, and sold wholesale to the North American public as a cure-all, feel-good solution to all that ails us. At once, we’re led to […]
Manley sees even greater role: John Manley, PM can’t be out of country together [National Security Committee]
[Graph Not Transcribed] Foreign Affairs Minister John Manley was on a plane coming back to Canada from Germany when the Twin Towers collapsed and the world we were living in changed. Now Mr. Manley is playing a crucial role in the federal cabinet, so important that he and the Prime Minister can no longer be […]
Who are the Talibans? Mullah Mohammad Omar Akhund’s rise to power
Who are the Talibans? Talibans appeared on the international political horizon in 1994 in the midst of total anarchy inside Afghanistan. It was a time when different warlords were controlling various parts of Afghanistan. And in reaction to this chaos, common Afghanis embraced this newly-emerged movement and supported it in every way possible. There is […]
Parrish says NATO delegates warming to US NMD plan
‘Yes, I guess this is next on the agenda,’ says Parrish After the recent terrorist attacks on the United States, Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish says she believes NATO Parliamentary Assembly delegates have adopted an attitude of “resigned acceptance” towards America’s controversial National Missile Defence plan. Ms. Parrish (Mississauga Centre, Ont.), the chair of the Canadian […]
PM golfs while war begins Afghanistan
War response planning moves from polished desks of PMO, to greens As 2,000 Canadian military prepared last Monday to help smoke Osama bin Laden out of his Afghanistan bunker, Prime Minister Jean Chretien was dealing with some bunkers of his own — at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club. Mr. Chretien (Saint-Maurice, Que.), a well-known golfing […]
It’s back to the future with the CRTC’s broadcast review
Broadcast Act attempts to regulate our choices about entertainment, but it’s an “on demand” world In May 2001, the government announced the long-awaited review of the 1991 Broadcast Act. The Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage requested submissions by internet during the summer and we were hopeful for an early fall commencement of hearings. The Canadian […]
Going to be a long, endless war
The proponents of One World in all trade and monetary policy, a single great Head Office nesting alongside the One World Bank, are now promoting a paradoxical multilateralism as a One World Foreign Policy. [Graph Not Transcribed] You can, in the new art of diplomacy, join the war against terrorism with a resolve studded with […]
