“The federal government is reportedly considering changes to digital political advertising rules. What should be done?”
Cameron Ahmad Liberal strategist “Ensuring Canada has tough election financing laws is one way to improve, strengthen, and protect our democratic institutions. Our government is reviewing the limits on the amounts political parties and third parties can spend during elections, and proposing new measures to ensure that spending between elections is subject to reasonable limits […]
Bill to ban unhealthy food ads for kids clears Senate, House sponsor sought
With her bill having passed the Senate last week, Conservative Senator Nancy Greene Raine is now casting about for an MP in the House to champion her legislation banning the advertising of unhealthy food and drinks to children under the age of 17. Bill S-228, the Child Health Protection Act, seeks to change the Food […]
Gender pay gap due to sexism, not women’s poor negotiating skills
OTTAWA—The creative Secret deodorant message is intended to portray a young woman who is standing up for her right to equal pay. Instead, it reinforces the message that the indefensible pay gap between young women and men is the result of poor female negotiating skills. Just last week, the University of Waterloo announced a half-measured […]
Government’s non-partisan ad and communications policy met by cries of partisanship, confusion
The federal government’s new policy on partisan-free advertising and communications unveiled last Thursday, which is intended to provide “clearer and simplified guidance to officials on the conduct of government communications activities,” resulted in miscommunication and confusion within 24 hours of its release. Though the policy is intended to prevent partisan government advertising, it’s not clear […]
Corrections
A caption on page 9 in last week’s issue of The Hill Times incorrectly stated Prime Minister Paul Martin and his wife Sheila bought their Christmas wreath in the ByWard Market. The Prime Minister bought the $240 wreath at Tivoli Florist in Westboro, where Liberal candidate Richard Mahoney was campaigning. * In last week’s Heard […]
The return of Lucien Bouchard? It’s just a dream…but: More and more Quebecers have come to realize Stephen Harper is actually not that scary
QUEBEC CITY – A funny thing happened over the Christmas holidays. More and more Quebecers have come to realize that Stephen Harper is actually not that scary.They may even consider him to be a real human being. Up until a few days ago, many voters here were still very put off by the Conservative Party […]
Correction
In last week’s issue of The Hill Times, Jan. 9, in the list of swing ridings across the country, on page 15, the cutlines for two NDP targeted swing ridings were in the wrong order. Here are the correct cutlines. Conservative MPs Dave Batters won Palliser, Sask., with 0.4% of the vote and Conservative MP […]
Grits must soothe angry supporters: Prof. Cohen
‘The Liberals had the upper hand, but then it became a twoway race. Then we polled through the debate and the Liberals got hammered on Monday and Tuesday’: SES Research’s Nik Nanos The key to winning the election for the embattled federal Liberals is to reach out to the party’s angry supporters. “With disenchanted Liberals […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
So much for globalism, eh? Re: “Politicians should think magnificence, do something noble: John Dalla Costa,”(The Hill Times, Dec. 19). I have just finished Saul’s The Collapse of Globalism, and it seems as though John Dalla Costa has read it as well. Perhaps the attitudes of our current politicians is just a reflection of the […]
Politicians side-stepping growth of organized crime in Canada: Public Safety Department sound alarms on multi-billion-dollar activities in secret briefings
The impact of organized crime has hardly been mentioned in the current election campaign. This, despite the fact that “Canada’s international reputation is suffering,”since many countries now see it as a growing haven for such activities, according to the Public Safety Department’s own documents from 2005. The briefings were presented to Deputy Ministers sitting on […]
