Collenette says more money should be pumped into infrastructure: and transport minister says biggest concern is getting ederal spending power to help the municipalities
INDUSTRY AND TRANSPORTATION POLICY BRIEFING Federal Transportation Minister David Collenette is out on the campaign trail electioneering to win his seat of Don Valley East, Ont., but he had plenty of time to sit down and talk about transportation and industry and what’s ahead if he’s still holding the same cabinet post after the next […]
Alliance brass gives spin cycle a rinse, brings back Anderson
Top strategists Rod Love and Jason Kenney criticized for veering party badly ‘off-message’ with the media [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] These are, it would seem, desperate times for the Canadian Alliance. Despite its status as the only viable alternative to the seemingly vulnerable governing Liberals, the Alliance has essentially been […]
Election campaign dandy opportunity to browbeat candidates [Tobacco Youth Protection Act]
Ontario Liberal Senator Kenny lobbies hard, tries to fire up electorate to support his youth non-smoking bill [Graph Not Transcribed] There are two ways of looking at the current federal election campaign. The grumpy way (fashionable among the cynical) is to moan and groan about how unnecessary it was to go to the polls before […]
The night the network TV anchors had no clothes
CAMPAIGN 2000 [Graph Not Transcribed] Forty-four years ago, C. Wright Mills saw it all coming — the media fiasco of the Gore-Bush presidential election and its continental cousin, the “two-party” Parliamentary election in Canada. Mills, an American, wrote in The Power Elite how new technology and the ascendancy of the commercial media would play a […]
We “propellor-heads” in Ottawa are interested in process issues: candidates should be asked about how far they would go to make government open, and where they stand
[Graph Not Transcribed] [Graph Not Transcribed] Admittedly, it’s a tad late to start raising new issues for public discussion during this election — but what the hell. To date, in this campaign, the parties have chewed endiessly on health care, fiscal matters and who among them has secret agendas or skeletons in the closet. In […]
Sitting here, watching debates on closed captioning
HEARD ON THE HILL O Caption, my caption… Thanks to the magic of closed captioning, Election 2000 voters were able to view the debates of the political leaders without being forced to listen to the shouting matches themselves. While media pundits fell over each other to explain who won the debates to voters who watched […]
In the political ring, there is nothing sleazier than the Nazi card
OPINION [Graph Not Transcribed] In the hierarchy of cheap shots nothing is sleazier than the Nazi card. There is such wide-spread revulsion at the very thought — and for good reason too — that even a hint that somebody is Nazi-friendly represents a pretty serious attack. Which is why, of course, that responsible people don’t […]
Kenney campaigns for leader, leaves little time for his own riding [Calgary Southeast]
Wearing the many hats of politician, finance critic, talking head and party strategist this election, Alliance MP Jason Kenney hasn’t had much time for his other campaign, the one for his own riding of Calgary Southeast, Alta. When the bright 32-year-old MP kicked off the Alliance party’s election campaign, he used the word “arrogance” to […]
PM seeks third term by campaigning against US health care
Sigh. There he goes again. Jean Chretien seeking to be Prime Minister of Canada by campaigning against the United States. This time Mr. Chretien couples the tired canard that there are 40 million Americans without health insurance with the accusation that Canadian Alliance Leader Stockwell Day seeks to transform Canada into such an ostensibly horrific […]
The politics of cocktails, appetizers, entrees and desserts: a handy dandy who’s who of the 49 members of this year’s governing Grits Maple Leaf Dinner committee
The Liberal war chest was filled with almost $600,000 following this year’s Maple Leaf Dinner. For the privilege of attending the federal Liberals’ premier social event and fundraiser in the Nation’s Capital hungry Liberal loyalists, lobbyists and consultants paid $400-a-plate to nosh on bison and Manitoba wild rice with toasted almonds and listen while the […]
