Good for Whelan
Most Canadians are still in shock from being targetted recently by the World Health Organization as a country to avoid due to SARS. Luckily one of our federal ministers is bang on with her response to the increasing global problem with serious diseases. Susan Whelan, our Minister of International Cooperation, has announced that CIDA is […]
Tories and elephants — neither forget…
New Brunswick Tory MP Elsie Wayne, who with Jean Charest kept her party alive in the Commons after the Great Conservative Wipeout of ’93, was quick to point out last week what many may not recall – or are too young to remember. Responding to the Canadian Alliance white paper on defence policy – and […]
McSweeney, Goldenberg, Hartley, Munson, Wackid, Macerollo, Armour, Prest, Yanover and Murphy are the tops
Drum roll, please. The No. 1 Terrific Twenty-Five Staffer on Parliament Hill is the Canadian Alliance’s Eastern Ontario outreach coordinator Colin McSweeney. Really. The outgoing Hill staffer, easily took top spot in total votes cast in the all-around terrific category in the third annual “The Hill Times Terrific Twenty-Five Staffers” third annual survey. Colin McSweeney […]
Whelan does some good
We have heard a lot of criticism recently about our government’s role in the SARS health crisis in Toronto. But, let’s not forget to celebrate when our elected officials get something right. Yesterday, Susan Whelan, Minister of International Cooperation, made an announcement that will save half a million children’s lives. Our long-cherished, but rather faded, […]
NMD suddenly lands with a giant thud
OTTAWA–The National Missile Defence (NMD) system has suddenly descended on the Canadian political scene raising more questions and concerns than providing answers. Both the Cabinet and Liberal caucus have recently been seized with discussions on this U.S.-proposed military program. For months, Prime Minister Jean Chretien refused to respond to persistent questioning about Canada’s participation in […]
Martinites bristle over coup, putsch accusations
MPs who support Paul Martin are bristling over accusations that they’re working behind the scenes to slow or kill Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s legislative legacy agenda last week. The accusations surfaced a day after more than 100 MPs and Senators who back Mr. Martin crowded into a local arena on the home turf of leadership […]
Patrick Watson’s elitist idea
TORONTO–Globe and Mail columnist Roy MacGregor called it “an idea almost too easy to ridicule.” The National Post wrote, “nothing dies harder than a bad idea.” Whatever you call it, former CBC chairman Patrick Watson’s proposal for a “public” newspaper is both extraordinarily stupid, because it wouldn’t sell, and strikingly arrogant, because Watson assumes the […]
House Foreign Affairs Committee split on NMD
At least half of the MPs on the prestigious Commons Foreign Affairs and International Trade Committee still publicly say that they don’t have enough or adequate information to support Canada’s potential role in U.S. National Missile Defence (NMD) program, according to a survey conducted by The Hill Times. The Hill Times contacted all 18 MPs […]
Post’s ‘Dead Pool’ list gets bigger
The Dead Pool?… The last thing Paul Wells did after quitting as the National Post’s marquee Ottawa columnist last Wednesday morning was to leave a message on his bureau answering machine announcing that he no longer worked at the paper and that friends could reach him at home, but he wouldn’t be “too helpful” to […]
‘It just feeds my habit of political junkieness’: Bruce Hartley
Q&A With BRUCE HARTLEY, Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s EA/ by F. Abbas Rana How do you feel being No. 3 on the Terrific Twenty-Five Staffer List? It’s a privilege to be with all these great staffers. To be on the list with the likes of Eddie Goldenberg and Jim Munson, I can say I feel […]
