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 […]
Boot the Liberals out
Re: “Commons legislative agenda to be dominated by election call,”(The Hill Times). It isn’t just the official opposition members who want this corrupt Liberal government defeated. It’s every Canadian who has an ounce of honour, integrity and ethics. I have had American and British friends email me articles written in their newspapers about how corrupt […]
The more things change, the more they stay the same, eh? Parliament returns this week and the political landscape seems about the same as it was at the turn of the millennium
Parliament returns this week and the political landscape seems about the same as it was at the turn of the last millennium. TORONTO – Parliament returns this week and the political landscape seems about the same as it was at the turn of the last millennium: the Conservatives still have a leadership but no party […]
It’s Winnipeg’s man on the Hill
Paul Samyn, Parliamentary reporter and bureau chief for the Winnipeg Free Press, doesn’t like to follow the pack. His beats are anything having to do with Manitoba or to Western Canada. A native of Winnipeg, Man., Mr. Samyn, 40, earned his bachelor’s in history from the University of Winnipeg and later on a diploma in […]
