Measuring journalistic quality in Canadian election year coverage
Do Canadian journalists generate better news coverage in an election year? Is there a prevailing Liberal bias in some of Canada? NDP? Conservative? In the analytical vacuum that exists today, no one knows for sure. Ican’t prove it statistically, but I think it’s fair to say that most Canadian journalists are small “l” liberals. It […]
House is back, but Newman and Lessard won’t be on the air
Don Newman and Daniel Lessard say CBC management doesn’t understand the damage it’s done to the corporation and to employees. It’s Monday, Sept. 26 and the House is back from a three-month summer break. CBC Newsworld Politics host Don Newman should be on the air at 5 p.m. He won’t be and he doesn’t like […]
What’s up with Pettigrew?
With the exception of few editorials and several columnists, there has been hardly any reaction from the general public on the news of Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew taking his chauffeur on foreign trips at taxpayer’s expense. Has the Liberal Party so brainwashed the average Canadian that an expenditure of $10,000 is a sum too […]
Commons legislative agenda to be dominated by election call
The House is back, but the upcoming session won’t have anything to do with legislative issues. It’s all about the election. The government says this session’s themes will be competitiveness, growth and prosperity, but insiders say the House legislative agenda will be dominated by the next election call. “Going into the session, our priorities will […]
The coming nuclear winter and all that political jazz: If there was ever a time to reconsider nuclear, it is now, global climate change is upon us
The term “nuclear winter”remains the unimaginable threat of a cold planet in the wake of a full-scale nuclear war.We heard it a lot in the Cold War years, and to a significant extent, that threat has receded. The potential of nuclear holocaust will never really disappear so long as nuclear arsenals exist. Nuclear weapons must […]
All party fundraiser on Hill for hurricanes Katrina and Rita: Bill Clinton to visit Ottawa next month
Can you say photo op? The so-called “Hands Across the Border,” all-party, power-housed charity barbecue on Parliament Hill this week has already raised $75,000 to help out hurricanes Katrina and Rita victims and organizers say they’re expecting 1,000 on the front lawns of Parliament Hill for the event. Liberal MP Andy Savoy (Tobique-Mactaquac, N.B.), chair […]
Forget Flaherty
Re: “Dissident Quebec Conservatives slam Harper’s leadership,” by Julie Van Dusen (The Hill Times, Sept. 19). Anyone who even remotely would consider Jim Flaherty as a suitable candidate is either totally ignorant of politics or has a short memory, or worse still, is a member of a small and radical advocacy group that has wreaked […]
Defence and security debate
Bill Graham used to say a lot when he first became minister of National Defence that for the first time in many years the defence portfolio will be front and centre in the government’s agenda. That’s more true now. This week, Mr. Graham tells The Hill Times Canada’s peacekeeping role is changing, Canada is looking […]
Recent government appointments
On Sept. 16, the federal Cabinet appointed Diane Labelle as acting assistant Clerk of the Queen’s Privy Council for Canada. On Sept. 14, Defence Minister Bill Graham appointed the following people to various aspects of the Department of National Defence: Rear-Admiral Ian Mack, former commander, Canadian Defence Liaison Staff (Washington), will not retire and is […]
New House session to be dominated by more politics: Liberals may engineer their own defeat and then blame the Opposition
This House session will be dominated more by “politics than policy”in the lead-up to the election which means an extra workload and an extra hectic schedule for all staffers on the Hill, and particularly for senior PMO and Liberal Party headquarters staffers, say Liberal insiders. “Typically as you’re heading into an election, everything all of […]
