Will the federal Liberals defeat themselves in the leadership campaign?
The individual succeeding Paul Martin as Liberal leader will face a major challenge overcoming the attacks levied against them during the upcoming leadership contest. Recent examples from the U.S. where a new party leader faced an incumbent president illustrates how counterproductive the process can be for the winner. In their quest to occupy the White […]
Canadian Screenwriting Awards this week, also Treasury Board President Baird and Liberal finance critic John McCallum to speak
Canadian Screenwriting Awards this week, also Treasury Board President Baird and Liberal finance critic John McCallum to speak MONDAY, APRIL 24 Canadian Screenwriting Awards-Host Scott Thompson, formerly of the Kids in the Hall, will announce winners at the 10th annual awards gala at the Brant House, 522 King St. West, Toronto. For more information, please […]
Canada languishes in innovation and investment in telecommunications industry, says Russell
Two years ago, the CRTC began lengthy consultations about Voice over Internet Protocol. VoIP is a technologically proven, commercially available and rapidly growing internet application. It enables online users to communicate by voice anywhere and anytime. In Canada, the barriers to entry are so low that literally scores of companies currently offer VoIP communications across […]
National media played along with Stronach while it lasted
I’ve always felt badly for rich people. Naturally, my feelings for Belinda Stronach are close to pity. Not the same pity you might feel for orphans or baby seals, but close. Though not yet 40, Stronach is in the twilight of a brief, bizarre political career that reads like a Trivial Pursuit question: what tycoon’s […]
Tories send message to lobbyists with tough penalties, $50,000 fine for violating cooling-off period
Federal Cabinet ministers, senior government officials and lobbyists are looking at significant new fines for violating the government’s proposed Lobbying Act, including a $50,000 fine for violations of the government’s five-year ban on ministers and senior public servants who wish to work as lobbyists. Robert Makichuk, a spokesman for the Treasury Board, the department responsible […]
Donner Prize Finalists
Donner Prize Finalists Want to know the Donner Prize finalists for the best book on Canadian public policy? The winner, to be announced in Toronto on April 27, will also win $35,000 Rethinking the Welfare State: The Prospects for Government by Voucher, by Ronald J. Daniels & Michael J. Trebilcock, Routledge. Blurb: “Rethinking the Welfare […]
Grit Senators brace for showdown on proposed ethics officer
After proposing a single ethics commissioner for the House and the Senate under the massive Federal Accountability Act, Grit Senators are voicing their concerns, setting the stage for a partisan showdown in the Senate. Grit Senators say they oppose the idea of a single ethics commissioner because the Senate traditionally has been independent of the […]
Rubec new press gallery president, promises to improve relations and communications with PMO
This just in…Stephanie Rubec, a reporter with the Sun Media on the Hill and the newly-elected Parliamentary Press Gallery president, says one of her major priorities as the spokesperson for the national media will be to obviously improve relations and reopen the line of communications with the Prime Minister’s Office. “They’ve basically put up a […]
Three Harper Conservative MPs could run provincially in Alberta if Manning wins leadership
Tories Bob Mills, James Rajotte and Rob Merrifield aren’t ruling out running provincially if Preston Manning is the next Conservative leader in Alberta. At least three Alberta Conservative MPs are not ruling out running provincially if Preston Manning wins the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in Alberta. Conservative MPs Bob Mills (Red Deer, Alta.), […]
Media too hard on Jim Loney: Ontario NDP MP Charlie Angus
NDP MP Charlie Angus said that just before his friend, and now freed Canadian hostage, Jim Loney, was kidnapped in Iraq, he sent Mr. Angus a letter telling him that he was coming home. “He had mailed me a letter just prior to him being kidnapped in Iraq, discussing that he was not planning on […]
