Much-touted ‘new’ Service Canada department not even being brought into existence through federal legislation
Prime Minister Paul Martin is back from lecturing the United Nations about abusive and unaccountable management practices. Home for the opening of Parliament does not unfortunately mean that his government is moving towards opening itself up to greater transparency and accountability. This last week, I received several months late, a large brown package under the […]
One new face in the Senate is brown: NDP Sen. Dyck’s [Why’s the Upper Chamber so white?, September 12, 2005]
I read Conservative Senator Donald Oliver’s article, “Why’s the Upper Chamber so white?” in The Hill Times of Sept. 12, 2005. He stated that no one of visible minority status has been appointed to the Senate since this spring. In the 16 new appointments to the Upper Chamber this year, however, there was one face […]
PARLIAMENTARY CALENDAR: Newman in town promoting new book
MONDAY, SEPT. 26 House returns – The House of Commons is scheduled to resume sitting. House Speaker Peter Milliken Barbecue – MPs and members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery are invited to House Speaker Peter Milliken’s barbecue at 6 p.m. at the Farm in Kingsmere, Que. By invitation only. For more information, please contact Dominque […]
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 […]
What if Powers and Kinsella wrote the next Throne Speech?
Remember that this is a minority Parliament and that doesn’t mean voters have been happy about what goes on here. Mr. Powers: Honourable Mucky Mucks and fellow Canadians: I am your new hip Governor General, the one who Prime Minister Paul Martin picked to make him seem with it. Prime Minister, please stop flailing your […]
Sen. LeBreton ill-informed
Re: “Tory Sen. LeBreton hopes lockout lasts until next election campaign,” (The Hill Times, Sept. 12). As a CBC journalist, I often find myself explaining to the public, both on and off the air, the reasons we have a bi-cameral system and why the Senate’s role is an important one in our democracy. Often, to […]
