Chalifoux joins federal Justice Minister Cotler’s office: Transport Minister Lapierre snags Mylene Dupere as senior special assistant
Irwin Cotler, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, has hired a new press secretary and Quebec assistant for his ministerial political office. Marc Chalifoux started his new job as press secretary and special assistant for Quebec to Minister Cotler (Mount Royal, Que.) on Oct. 27. He succeeded Mylene Dupere. A native of Montreal, […]
Tory Leader Harper is ‘standing up for the trades’ with a made-in-Canada approach: Conservative MP Van Loan
On Oct. 13, 2005 Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper announced a cornerstone of the Conservative Party’s platform for the upcoming election: “Standing up for the Trades.”A made-in- Canada approach, the aim is to tackle the shortages in the skilled trades. There are as many as 20,000 skilled trades positions that cannot be filled today, and […]
Layton earns rave reviews for performance at ‘hottest ticket’ in town event at Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner
The new location, in the Grand Hall of the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Que., dazzled many. The VIPs at the podium elicited laughter and enthusiastic applause. And with nearly 600 attendees, this year’s Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner, emceed by CBC Radio’s The House host Anthony Germain, was the largest such gathering on record. […]
Time to end the attack on collective bargaining: Christopherson: Collective bargaining rights should be and must be legislated and defended by government
The right to associate with other likeminded people in common cause is the very cornerstone of democracy. Other freedoms are tremendously important – freedom of expression, of religion, the right to a fair trial and so on – but it is the freedom of association which creates the possibility for citizens to win other freedoms. […]
Call it preventing Sponsorship Scandal for dummies: Treasury Board’s Alcock wants new ministers to take orientation course for civil service
Just call it Sponsorship Scandal 101. It’s an orientation course for rookie employees and managers in the civil service, and it may soon become a required class for new Cabinet ministers and their staffers. The class is being developed by the Canada School of Public Service to help employees adapt and learn the values and […]
Bennett says preparing for avian flu ‘a bit like studying for an exam’
The WHO says Canada is ‘relatively well-prepared as a country’ for avian flu, but the government is facing some criticism over its preparations to protect the Canadian people. The World Health Organization says Canada is “relatively well-prepared as a country,” to deal with an anticipated influenza pandemic, and Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh says he and […]
Is there a future for public service broadcasting in this country?
At the very least, we are long overdue for a serious discussion of what Canadian public service television ought to look like in the 21st century. Well, that’s over. After seven bleak, Peter Mansbridge-less weeks, the CBC and its employees have settled their dispute, and life at the Mother Corp’s downtown Toronto bunker can return […]
Dingwall goes to Parliament Hill
Dave Dingwall blew into Centre Block on Parliament Hill last Wednesday, escorted by his lawyer, and quickly proceeded to throw a few verbal bombs at members of the Government Operations Committee, at opposition MPs, at government backbenchers and, oh, at the Paul Martin government, in general. The star chamber committee hearing was immediately dubbed one […]
Liberals ramp up election preparation
The powerful Ontario wing of the federal Liberal Party is holding a campaign college and a series of workshops about how to run a successful election campaign on Oct. 29 for all Ontario riding candidates and MPs seeking re-election. The campaign college, to be held at the Ramada Plaza Hotel in Hamilton, Ont., from 1 […]
Governing Liberal lobbying scandal is 11 years old: And all this reveals is how the glacially slow-changing and still fatally flawed government accountability system is actually the real scandal
Canadians will finally get the honest, ethical, open, representative and waste-preventing federal government they need, and deserve, if the government does three things. Many federal government observers are claiming that the recent scandals involving questions about Liberal government-connected lobbyists David Dingwall, Richard Mahoney, John Duffy and others have revealed cracks in the federal lobbying regulation […]
