Brit MPs stressed, so are Canuck MPs: MPs’ stress levels raised by House obligations and family separations
Are you an MP and stressed out? Join the Commonwealth club. Feelings of helplessness, observed Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett, contribute to high levels of anxiety among MPs. Ms. Bennett (St. Paul’s, Ont.), a medical doctor, was commenting on a recent study by Britain’s Hansard Society which found that within three months of being elected, more […]
Fight looms in upper chamber over contentious immigration bill
Tory and several Liberal senators oppose Elinor Caplan’s Immigration Bill, spelling its likely death in Senate [Graph Not Transcribed] In The House All eyes will be on the Senate this week to find out what bills get approved into law and what ones will die should the election be called over the weekend. The most […]
You heard it here first, Tories are currently up and optimistic
OPINION Talk Politics It is a long road, as John Diefenbaker used to say, inaccurately, that has no ash cans. As his biographer, John Munro reminded us, the more accurate euphemism is that it’s a short road that has no ash cans. [Graph Not Transcribed] I thought of Diefenbaker’s malapropism on learning of the defeat […]
The dimmest bulb in Canadian political history is about to move to Stornaway
Knowing all too well of the intellectual precocity of newspaper board members and publishers, and observing their devotion and touching admiration for Reform Alliance Leader Stockwell Day, I have set out to search for explanation. These people did, after all, contest the qualifications of Pierre Trudeau for high office (some thought him too bright by […]
New information officer Michelle d’Auray takes on massive file
But government backbencher Reg Alcock says PMO should wire up federal government departments Bravely taking on a job that, according to one Liberal MP, has no “hope in hell” of being finished on time, Michelle d’Auray will supervise the Government OnLine initiative as the new Chief Information Officer for the Government of Canada. Ms. d’Auray […]
