Tories facing crunch: PCDRC a double-edge sword, strains Tories’ shrinking budget
A cash crunch and the resulting lack of rewards and advancement opportunities for staff is playing havoc in the Tory caucus ranks in Ottawa. The Progressive Conservative caucus lost two researchers last week, including top staffer Carl Hnatyshyn, son of the former Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn and long-time cabinet minister in the Tory governments of […]
Martin says “options open” for budget
Finance Minister Paul Martin: No. 1 priority is of national security The federal government will do “whatever possible to stay out of a deficit” and could still release a fall budget, says Canada’s federal Finance Minister. The Finance Minister told The Hill Times that the government will remain fiscally responsible but he said that national […]
Media too quick to jump into “war,” says McLuhan disciple
Following in foosteps of Marshall McLuhan, Derrik de Kerckhove says terrorist attacked the ‘global village’ Mass media are creating a “critical” message that the world will be going to “war,” but are leaving little room for any other view-points, says the disciple of Canadian pop icon Marshall McLuhan. As well, Professor Derrik de Kerckhove, director […]
Americans are not evil, media shouldn’t paint them that way
It’s irresponsible to keep feeding hate against only superpower still capable, we hope, of protecting the world There’s plenty of people who don’t agree with American policies, either foreign or domestic. There’s also a manifest effort to explain, if not justify, the terrorist attacks against the Americans, as a reaction to those policies. One of […]
Gerald Ford says he and Trudeau hit it off from the very start [Inclusion of Canada in G7 meetings]
Why Liberal Pierre Trudeau and Republican Gerry Ford were so personally compatible, in Ford’s own words His voice strong despite his 88 years and the decades that have passed since he sat in the Oval Office, the 38th President of the United States of America makes one thing clear from the beginning of the conversation: […]
Anti-terrorism will be the talk of the NATO assembly in Ottawa
Republican Congressman Doug Bereuter says Americans looking for cooperation in law enforcement U.S. politicians want to use this week’s NATO Assembly of Parliamentarians in Ottawa to shore up relations with partner nations as the world ponders its response to last month’s terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Nebraska Republican Congressman Doug […]
The Star’s outmoded leftism
On the day after the horrendous terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, veteran Toronto Star columnist Richard Gwyn’s front page column argued that U.S. retribution had to be swift and decisive. Most of the rest of the Star’s large stable of columnists, alas, immediately shifted into a blame-the-victim mode — something they abhor when […]
Fight poverty, fight terror: Trade DM
‘Terrorism will thrive in areas of poverty and under-development’ The new Depty Minister for International Trade says strengthening trade and fighting global poverty must be key parts of the world’s response to the terrorist attacks on the United States. Leonard Edwards, the former Canadian ambassador to Japan, told The Hill Times that his career as […]
Promoting fear and frenzy
According to my morning paper (national edition) of Saturday last: “Fear stalks our country… from the stock market to the classroom, from church pews to shopping malls.” The editorial board finds “enormous apprehension” amid fears of possible “chemical, biological, even nuclear” war. I spent the past weekend in Regina, engulfed in bright sunlight under cloudless […]
Tories facing crunch: PCDRC a double-edge sword, strains Tories’ shrinking budget
A cash crunch and the resulting lack of rewards and advancement opportunities for staff is playing havoc in the Tory caucus ranks in Ottawa. The Progressive Conservative caucus lost two researchers last week, including top staffer Carl Hnatyshyn, son of the former Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn and long-time cabinet minister in the Tory governments of […]
