More Copyright Act feedback
Re: “Licensing will solve the schools’ copyright challenge,”(The Hill Times, Oct. 3). Has Christopher Moore ever driven past a billboard? Did he look at what was posted there? Would he be upset if he received a bill for doing so? Because that’s the offline equivalent to his proposal. Yes, if you want to charge for […]
Recently Released Books
War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict by Michael Byers. Douglas and McIntyre Publishing Group, 214 pages, $35. Blurb from the back cover: “How should we respond to ‘the tension between a world that still wants a fair and sustainable international legal system and a superpower that hardly seems to care?’ That is the […]
Senate shuts down, has nothing to do
The Senate shut down last week and won’t be back until Oct. 18 because it has no bills to scrutinize. The Senate shut down last week for two weeks and won’t be back until Oct. 18 because it has nothing to do and no bills to scrutinize, after sitting an extra month in the summer. […]
The Prime Minister did good [Governor-General’s appointment]
What is remarkable is that it was an appointment by Prime Minister Paul Martin, based on his gut instinct, something he should evidently do more of. No? Michaelle Jean’s selection for the post of Governor General was greeted with surprise, but reasonably good press back in early August. And then her separatist friends struck and […]
Michaelle Jean steps out
Last week’s newspaper headlines said it all. Michaelle Jean was a hit.The 48- year-old refugee from Haiti and former Quebec journalist dazzled the crowd on and off the Hill.The Ottawa establishment and the Prime Minister’s Office were pleased. Not bad, considering all the earlier reviews from the monarchy abolitionists, conservative talk radio hosts, some newspaper […]
Pallister: the Conservative MP who took down David Dingwall
At 6’8″ Conservative MP Brian Pallister is the tallest drink of water in politics. He’s also getting skilled at uncovering excessive Liberal spending. At 6′ 8″Conservative MP Brian Pallister is the tallest drink of water in politics. He towers over everyone.To scrum him is to feel lilliputian. Mr. Pallister (Portage-Lisgar, Man.) ,who is an athlete […]
CBC doesn’t need increased funding: Global’s Peter Kent
While I believe, passionately, that Canada needs a strong, publicly-funded national broadcaster, CBC TV does not need increased funding. The sorry state of the corporation today is a direct result of a chronic, misdirected fixation on its original 1950s-era mandate to provide a spectrum of local and regional television services that are irrelevant in today’s […]
Correction [Warren Kinsella on punk rock, his new book and the real Liberal Party, in Ontario, September 26, 2005]
Regarding last week’s story, “Warren Kinsella on punk rock, his new book and the real Liberal Party, in Ontario,” (The Hill Times, Sept. 26). Warren Kinsella says he has never called any Liberal MP a “neo- Nazi.” Said Mr. Kinsella: “I’ve met the real ones for Web of Hate, and that’s not an allegation I’d […]
Missing Newsworld’s Politics
Re: “House is back, but Newman and Lessard won’t be on the air,”(The Hill Times, Sept. 26). I think that it is terrible that we won’t be able to watch Politics because of the CBC lockout; it’s one of my favourite shows on Newsworld. Judi Johnny Whitehorse,Yukon Re: “House is back, but Newman and Lessard […]
PM should step in for CBC
Re: “House is back, but Newman and Lessard won’t be on the air,”(The Hill Times, Sept. 26). I’ve heard these cleverboots trying to replace the CBC workers. I’ve heard management types say “hunnert”for “hundred,”and “pitcher”for “picture,”which told me all I needed to know about their standards of education. When I heard them refer to Smokey […]
