Federal politicians raise $125,000 for Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita victims
Photos: by Jake Wright, The Hill Times That’s a lot of meat: 1. Tory Leader Stephen Harper, Bloc Quebecois Leader Gilles Duceppe, NDP MP Jack Layton, U.S. Ambassador David Wilkins, Prime Minister Paul Martin and Liberal MP Guy Lauzon 2. Martin 3. Duceppe 4. the setting 5. Tory MP Rona Ambrose 6. Tory MP Bev […]
PARLIAMENTARY CALENDAR: Ralston Saul to speak at National Press Club Monday
MONDAY, OCT. 3 Press Attache Luncheon-John Ralston Saul, author of The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World will speak at this luncheon at 12 noon in the National Press Club dining room. NPC members $20, nonmembers $30. For more information, please call 233-5641. TUESDAY, OCT. 4 National Press Club Annual Golf Tournament- […]
Two more staffers leave Minister Stronach’s office: And Janice Nicholson joins the Prime Minister’s Office, succeeds Ruth Thorkelson
Two more ministerial political staffers have left Human Resources Minister Belinda Stronach’s office. Cory MacDonald,former policy adviser to Ms. Stronach and Stephanie Leblanc, former press secretary to the minister, left their jobs recently. Prior to their recent departures, Malcolm Bernard,a former veteran broadcaster and Parliament Hill staffer who was hired in June as director of […]
Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal caucus wants meeting with PM over Efford’s position as regional and political minister
There’s deep concern in the Newfoundland and Labrador Grit caucus about the lack of a regular presence at the Cabinet table or on Parliament Hill. But it’s unlikely John Efford will lose his regional and political post in Cabinet. John Efford may be out as minister of Natural Resources, but he is keeping his job […]
Bolan pulls no punches in book on 1985 Air India bombing [Loss of Faith: How the Air India Bombers Got Away With Murder]
Vancouver Sun reporter Kim Bolan, who has received death threats and now has RCMP protection because of her stories on the Air India bombing, says there’s no way she would ever stop writing about it. So she wrote a book about it. High above the North Atlantic, just off the coast of Ireland on the […]
Cue the Jaws movie theme music: Frank Magazine is back, online
Michael Bate and the Frank team are clearly ready to take on Ottawa, but is Ottawa ready – or willing – to take Frank back? Cue the Jaws theme music: Frank Magazine, the notorious satirical newsweekly, is back. Last week marked the debut of efrank.ca, the online version of the magazine that provided nightmare fodder […]
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 […]
