GG puts ads on city buses [for activities at Rideau Hall]
Taking it to the streets…The Governor General may be the Queen’s representative, but all the pomp and pageantry hasn’t stopped Rom o LeBlanc from running big poster ads promoting summer activities at Rideau Hall on the side of city buses. That’s right, for the first time Rideau Hall is advertising its summer events on city […]
Question period: What book are you reading?
“I read No Holds Barred by John Crosbie. I enjoyed the refreshing honesty of it all and his lack of concern for political correctness. It puts some of the fun back into politics.” Tory Sen. Marjory LeBreton Ontario “I read the Fortune 500 (released by the Financial Post) and very much enjoyed it. [I enjoyed] […]
[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 […]
Canadian Auto Dealers proud to be #1 donor to Grits [Includes list of associations by party]
Canadian associations dished out money to the major federal political parties for the last federal election and leading the association pack for single donations last year was the Canadian Automobile Dealers, with a $32,173 contribution to the governing Liberal Party. Huw Williams, spokesman for the Canadian Automobile Dealers, said there’s a simple explanation for such […]
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 […]
The inside story on the perils of Pauline Hanson
Since it’s summertime and many people are vacationing in exotic places around the world, let us zip over to the struggling mining town of Ipswich near Brisbane in northeast Australia. There we will find Pauline Hanson, a former fish-and-chip shop owner named Pauline Hanson who — to the horror of some and the delight of […]
The strategists behind the Bouchard-Charest battle
PREMIER LUCIEN BOUCHARD Chief of Staff: Hubert Thibault DM/Secretary to Cabinet: Michel Carpentier Acting DM/Secretary to Cabinet: Michel Noel de Tilly Press Secretary: Christiane Miville-Desch nes Senior Adviser: Jean-Fran ois Lis e Senior Adviser: Jean-Rochon Boivin QUEBEC LIBERAL LEADER JEAN CHAREST Adviser: Suzanne Poulain Senior Aide: Fran ois Pilote Adviser: Pietro Perrino Chief of Staff: […]
