Senate Internal Economy looks into Liberal Sen. Lavigne’s tree-cutting Hill staffer: Former U.S. president Clinton cancels his Ottawa visit
The Senate Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration has struck a three-member special committee to investigate whether Quebec Liberal Sen. Raymond Lavigne broke the Senate’s rules by allowing his staffer to cut down trees on his neighbour’s property in West Quebec. The matter came to a head in July after Sen. Lavigne’s Wakefield, […]
Cleaner cars aren’t made enough, and aren’t made in Canada
Voluntary commitments just don’t work and if the industry says it can meet the Kyoto targets, we should get it in writing. Canadians know that driving vehicles that burn less gas is an important way to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions, helping people save money and clean the air. Yet these cleaner cars aren’t made […]
Conservative MPs outworking Liberals on national automotive strategy, says Tory Auto Caucus Chair Carrie
Industry Minister David Emerson has been promising an auto strategy for more than one year. So the Conservatives decided to start working on their own. The impact of the automotive industry on the national economy is staggering.The sector contributes over $7.5-billion in total value-added GDP and no less than seven jobs are created for every […]
Ipsos-Reid probes Canadians on foreign affairs, Canada-U.S.
Canadians want their federal government to have an independent foreign policy even if it means a less than perfect relationship with their neighbour to the south, according to a new poll. The poll which was commissioned by the University of Ottawa, conducted by Ipsos- Reid and released on Oct. 11 also showed that 83 per […]
Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner to draw a crowd of 600
For the first time since 2000, the Bloc Quebecois MPs won’t be boycotting the event. This just in. It’s time to put on your monkey suits and your little black dresses, boys and girls. And this year’s Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner will be a night of firsts. For the first time in Parliamentary Press Gallery […]
MPs’ and former MPs’ individual expenses for 2004-2005
Top 10 Staff and Other Expenses 1. Tory John Reynolds (West Van.-Sun. Coast- Sea-Sky Country, B.C.) $269,357 2. Lib Marlene Catterall (Ottawa West-Nepean, Ont.) $265,530 3. Lib Gerry Byrne (Humber-St. Barbe-Baie Verte, Nfld.) $264,306 4. Lib Larry Bagnell (Yukon) $263,011 5. BQ Marcel Gagnon (Saint Maurice-Champlain, Que.) $261,720 6. Tory Richard Harris (Cariboo-Prince George, B.C.) […]
Canada needs more Newman: Fan
Re: “Changes needed in higher echelons of CBC, says NDP culture and communications critic Charlie Angus.”Like I said before, I have missed Don Newman’s Politics. It was and is the most reliable program on Parliament Hill. The other stations don’t cover Parliament the way CBC does.The CBC is the heart of the nation. Don Newman […]
Many political journalists have a warmer regard for the elite personalities they cover than the public they presume to serve
Halloween has come early this year in the form of dark mutterings of a midnight plot by the Parliamentary Press Gallery. It’s the spooky spectre of a Liberal Media Conspiracy. Never has conspiracy talk gained such currency amongst rational people. Theorists believe Liberals remain in power with the aid of journalists. Media are led by […]
Lobbyists want government to break log-jam in procurement
Ottawa lobbyists and government suppliers says the aftershocks of public outrage over perceived corruption within the contracting process are having a profound effect on the procurement process. Ottawa lobbyists and government suppliers says the aftershocks of public outrage over perceived corruption within the contracting process is having a profound effect on the procurement process, where […]
Disagree with ‘puff piece’ on new Grit Sen. Campbell
Re: the puff piece on Senator Larry Campbell (“Look out for new Liberal Senator Larry Campbell,”(The Hill Times, Sept. 19), it’s my view as a journalist in B.C. that you would be rendering your readers a disservice by leaving them with the impression, as writer Jonathan Ross did, that Larry Campbell is going to be […]
