Loney appointment pure patronage says Reform critic [Rob Anders]
Former Alberta Liberal MP John Loney was made a temporary member of the Veterans Review and Appeal Board for two years. His appointment is effective next Monday. Mr. Loney, 69, the former MP for Edmonton North from 1993-97, did not run in the last election. Mr. Loney had been a federal Tory MP in Ontario […]
Reformers upbeat about BC politics: Reform strategists now have a window to showcase Liberals’ lack of credibility on children and other social issues
The two main contenders set to capture the hearts of British Columbian voters are the Reform Party and Liberal Party. Fuelled by anti-Mulroney sentiment, Western alienation and a rejection of the status-quo, British Columbians elected 24 Reform MPs to the House of Commons in 1993, subsequently returning them (and increasing their popular vote) in 1997, […]
Wheat Board issue heats up for Grits in the West: court challenges to the monopoly will continue and political pressure for freedom of choice, fanned by the Reform Party opposition, will grow
When Natural Resources Minister Ralph Goodale is in Regina this summer, he need only drive to his Albert Street constituency office to be reminded of one of the festering issues of his political life. In his face, every morning as he drives to the office, is the aggressive negative judgment of one of Mr. Goodale’s […]
Feisty debate over right-wing of Canada draws a crowd [National Debaters Forum]
It may have started out as the Ottawa equivalent of let’s put on a show in the barn: take four conservative thinkers, add long-standing topical debate, stir and serve — still hot — to an audience made up of embattled Reform and Tory members currently at war over the future of the right wing in […]
The Tory leadership five: Joe Clark has 30% of Parliament Hill caucus behind him: Hill Times poll
Experience, knowledge and integrity are why Joe Clark should lead the Tories into the new millennium and more importantly, back into the government, say a majority of the members of the federal Progressive Conservative Party caucus on Parliament Hill. According to an exclusive poll conducted by The Hill Times last week, a majority of the […]
Journalists fail to knock holes in junk science championed by anti-smoking lobby [Second-hand smoke]
In the middle of last week, The Globe and Mail’s pugnacious business columnist Terence Corcoran published another in a series of combative assaults against what he calls “the meddling busybodies in the health lobby.” In particular, Corcoran is incensed by the actions of the anti-tobacco lobby for perpetrating what he calls “the second-hand smoke scare.” […]
Ontario schools question could land in PM’s lap: Catholic schools issue threatens to bubble over as premier Harris appears determined to forge ahead
The highly controversial Ontario schools question will likely land in the lap of Prime Minister Jean Chr tien and his Ontario federal MPs in the next year, setting off a political time bomb for the 101 Grit MPs in the province. Ontario Education Minister Dave Johnson who was asked about the possible elimination of all […]
Reform party targets Canada’s corporate boardrooms: Reformers still strail behind Tories’ finesse in corporate fundraising [Includes list of top 30 corporate donors in 1997]
The Tory and Reform parties, embroiled in one of the most bitter historical battles for the country’s right-thinking voters, are also fighting for Canada’s multi-million-dollar corporate donors, according to the parties’ 1997 fiscal returns. The Reform Party nearly doubled its corporate appeal since the last federal election year, raising $1.9-million from Canada’s boardrooms out of […]
Toronto Star falls for old victim tale in Walker case [Status of daughter Sheena]
In last Saturday’s column, Don Sellar, The Toronto Star’s ombudsman, congratulated his newspaper’s managing editor, Mary Deanne Shears, for deciding that the newspaper will no longer do its job in covering the infamous Albert Walker case. To be sure, that’s not the spin Sellar put on it. Walker, of course, is the Woodstock financier who […]
Pollution is a growing business on the Net
Okay, it’s been hot in Ottawa for the past couple of weeks. Damn hot. And smoggy too. All of which has riled the usual suspects into pointing fingers at culprits responsible for pollution and ozone depletion. Instead, let’s point a finger or two at a few groups who are trying to help the situation. There […]
