Attack campaign on federal Grits spews ‘beer and popcorn’
It’s kind of like hockey. You want the puck to be in the other team’s zone because a good offence is the best defence, explained communications specialist Andre Lafrance. “The choice of the [Liberal] communications team, is to be that of a young party in an attack mode,”said Mr. Lafrance, a professor at Universite de […]
Canada could learn from Iraq elections: author O’Leary [The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq]
Canada stands to learn from the elections in Iraq to apply to its own democracy, explained author and political science professor Brandan O’Leary last week. Speaking at a reception launching his new book, The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq, he explained that Iraq’s mixed proportional representation system might even be more efficient than Canada’s since […]
The ying and the yang of association lobbyists: ‘When you’re everything, you’re nothing’
Every job has its upside and downside, including being an association lobbyist. “When you’re everything, you’re nothing.” These words, from a disillusioned association lobbyist, speak to one aspect of this job: lobbying on behalf of many diverse members. Often, this means the GR message is so broad it’s often ineffective. When they lobby, associations find […]
Tory turns red over leadership
Tory leadership race? The campaign has hardly begun, and once again there are Tories in Quebec who are looking to replace their leader. Meeting with the Conservative candidate in Mansfield Lawrence Cannon, some locals joked that they wanted him to win in Pontiac riding so that he could take a run at the party leadership. […]
Candidates campaign for more civil servants in Quebec: Proulx warns sovereigntists would move Outaouais jobs to Montreal and Quebec City
But the Bloc is not able to say what would happen to existing or new public sector jobs in the Outaouais region, if Quebecers voted for sovereignty. Taking election promises at face value, some federal civil servants who work on the Ontario side of the National Capital Region might soon wind up seeing their workplace […]
Liberals hoping ethics chill thaws out in Pontiac riding
Liberals warn that fluently bilingual Conservative candidate Lawrence Cannon might leave the staunchly federalist Pontiac riding with an unpleasant surprise on Jan. 23: A Bloc Quebecois MP. FORT-COULONGE,QUE.-With the wind chill, it was somewhere near -20 C on the streets of this Outaouais town last week in the western part of the Pontiac riding. It’s […]
Recently Released Books [Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry] [Canada Among Nations 2005: Split Images] [Magnificence at Work: Living Faith in Business]
Auto Pact: Creating a Borderless North American Auto Industry, 1960-1971 , by Dimitry Anastakis. University of Toronto Press, 285 pages, $29.95. Blurb from the back cover: “At a time when Canada’s most important industry faces unprecedented challenges stemming from unregulated global trade, the arrival of Dimitry Anastakis’s Auto Pact could not be more timely. A […]
Conservatives, Liberals target key Ontario swing ridings
The Liberals hope to hold onto 74 seats or more while Tories aggressively target ‘swing’ ridings. Public opinion polls are showing the Tories are narrowing the gap nationally, but the margin is still widest in Ontario, where the Liberals where the Liberals hope to make any significant gains, however, the Conservatives have their eyes on […]
Politicians should think magnificence, do something noble: John Dalla Costa [Magnificence at Work: Living Faith in Business]
Internationally-renowned ethicist John Dalla Costa says politicians have to change the channel, take risks, and do the right thing. An internationally-renowned Canadian ethicist says the four white male political leaders are not resonating because they represent “an old Canada”and don’t represent what Canada’s future is becoming. Moreover, the decline in public trust in political institutions […]
Home for the election holidays
Think about this over the holidays. Hope. Magnificence. Vision. Leadership.You don’t often hear the word ‘magnificence’ associated with modern day Canadian politics, but John Dalla Costa, author of the recently-released Magnificence at Work: Living Faith in Business, and who was out doing national media interviews last week, says Canada is capable of magnificence if only […]
