Bloc says time for feds and Quebec to work together on greens
Bloc Quebecois critic Bernard Bigras is in favour of environmental harmonization with federal Liberals Now more than ever, we are all concerned about the environment. Evidence of this can be found in the Leger Marketing poll that appeared in The Gazette on Aug. 13: it found that 77.2 per cent of the population thinks the […]
Where’s journalistic fairness?
At one time, newspapers were published essentially to promote the partisan interests of a particular political party or ideology. There was certainly no attempt at objectivity — what that is anyway — or even fairness. If you were a Liberal paper, the Liberals were good and the Tories were bad. If you were a Tory […]
How’s Bubba? Former Hill reporter freezes when he meets Bill: Whig reporter Arthur Milnes pulls a Mike Scandiffio at New York State Fair
Whig reporter Arthur Milnes pulls a Mike Scandiffio at New York State Fair, despite months of prep work SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Don’t do a Scandiffio. Though William Jefferson Clinton, America’s 42nd president, is only metres away, and approaching, all I can think of is Mike Scandiffio. “Art,” I say to myself, “don’t repeat his mistake. […]
Here’s an idea: make citizens partners, not enemies of the planet
This government’s approach to conservation persists in setting people against the environment, says Mills It has been eight months since I was given the role of environment critic for the Official Opposition. In that time, I have been consistently struck by the thought that the federal government could achieve so much more in protecting Canada’s […]
Grit leadership contenders are Irish descendants [New Irish ambassador]
If you’re Irish, step into the leadership race… Just over a week after Canada brought back former Indian affairs minister Ron Irwin from a three-year stint as ambassador to Dublin and plopped him in Boston, Ireland installed a new ambassador here in Ottawa. Martin Burke, Ireland’s former ambassador to Sweden, arrived here in the middle […]
Controversial omnibus justice bill to be hot this fall session: Pettigrew, Collenette to table most bills
Justice Minister Anne McLellan’s controversial Justice Omnibus Bill, C-15, the same one that threatened to bring the House to a crushing standstill before last June’s summer break, will be one of the hottest bills of the fall legislative agenda. Government House Leader Don Boudria managed to avoid a large-scale confrontation over the bill earlier this […]
It’s time Liberals clear the air on global warming: McDonough
Grits pledged to be ‘part of the solution’ on climate change, but heartily endorsed Bush’s new energy plan If there were any lingering doubts, the summer of 2001 should serve as a stark reminder that the threat of global warming is real, immediate, and ominous. This summer in Canada we saw the sixteenth straight season […]
Kinsella’s book hits Ottawa, to rattle some [Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics]
Political insiders and national reporters were fastening their seat belts last week in Canada’s capital as they read through longtime Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella’s latest book, Kicking Ass in Canadian Politics. Called “The Prince of Darkness” in some circles and known as Canada’s Lee Atwater or James Carville, Mr. Kinsella dishes up his insider’s view […]
Anatomy of a virus: inside Health Canada’s strategy committee [Executive Committee on Risk Management]
Ottawa certainly has its share of mind-numbing, bureaucratic-sounding committees meeting regularly in board-rooms across the capital, but there is one powerful weekly gathering that is anything but boring. The mere title of Health Canada’s “Executive Committee on Risk Management,” hints at the weighty topics discussed every Thursday morning behind closed doors in the Brooke Claxton […]
Alliance hillite anxious for family in wake of Zimbabwe conflicts
Bloc caucus enlists Hugues Theoret as new press attache, replacing Louis-Pascal Cyr who is now in Quebec City Though Terence Scheltema, the executive assistant to Alberta Alliance MP Peter Goldring, has made a career in Canadian politics, his thoughts are never far from the political situation of Zimbabwe. Following the civil war the country experienced […]
