[Former Liberal cabinet minister appointed chairman of Sisters of Charity of Ottawa Health Services]
From politics to trains to health, former federal Liberal cabinet minister Doug Young has added another private sector appointment to his roster. Mr. Young’s appointment as chairman of the Sisters of Charity of Ottawa Health Service was announced in an advertisement in last Wednesday’s Ottawa Sun. You may recall Mr. Young was appointed a director […]
Question period: should there be an international court to try war crimes?
“It’s important and it should exist. As far as the U.S. is concerned, and the example used that Libya could have gone to the court, they (Libya) would be the complainants and not the court and the court would decide if the complaint is valid. I don’t think the court would make decisions left and […]
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 […]
[NEB gets new chairman]
Alberta Tory Senator Ron Ghitter told Civil Circles that he is pleased that Natural Resources Minister Ralph Goodale has finally appointed a chair for the National Energy Board. The senator, who is chair of the Senate Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Committee, had raised the issue in the Red Chamber before the Senate rose for […]
[Former federal cabinet minister Roy MacLaren nominated to WTO]
It’s now official — former federal cabinet minister Roy MacLaren may be headed for the World Trade Organization as its new director general next spring after his nomination was announced last week by his former confr re Sergio Marchi. Mr. MacLaren, currently Canada’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom, is the former MP for Etobicoke […]
That’s Liberal Senator Maloney to you [New Ontario senator]
Sports fans on the Hill may have been overjoyed by the appointment to the Senate last month of retired hockey legend Frank Mahovlich, but political women — at least, those in the Liberal Party — think the real star of Prime Minister Jean Chr tien’s latest draft pick is longtime community activist and Liberal party […]
