Tories should take responsibility for toxic sites in the North: MP Angus
Defence Minister Gordon O’Connor (Carleton-Mississippi Mills, Ont.) needs to acknowledge the Defence Department’s responsibility for numerous toxic sites in Ontario’s North, NDP MP Charlie Angus (Timmins-James Bay, Ont.) said at a news conference last week. The Department of National Defence built and then abandoned 17 radar bases in the early 1960s in the James Bay-Hudson’s […]
Parliamentarians go to South Africa
A delegation of MPs is headed to South Africa this week to meet with their Parliamentary counterparts from Aug. 27 to Sept. 3. House Speaker Peter Milliken (Kingston and the Islands, Ont.) is leading the delegation to Cape Town, Johannesburg and Pretoria. Conservative MP Jay Hill (Prince George-Peace River, B.C.), Liberal MP Karen Redman (Kitchener […]
Bernier joins Summa Strategies
Last week, Summa Strategies announced that it hired Tory Daniel Bernier, formerly chief of staff to Environment Minister Rona Ambrose, to head up the firm’s new research division. The Hill Times caught up with Tim Powers, vice president at Summa. HT: What was the impetus for creating the new research division? Will it be servicing […]
Liberals are united and ready to fight Conservatives: Goodale
After a productive caucus meeting in Vancouver, the Liberal Party is getting its groove back, says Liberal MP Ralph Goodale (Wascana, Sask.). “The one thing that I’ve noticed from this caucus and I felt it growing since June, through July, through August, is a very real sense among liberals that we’re getting our morale, our […]
UNDERGROUND TUNNEL WOULD UP SECURITY, SAYS PROULX
The Long Term Vision and Plan for the Parliamentary Precinct would increase security on the Hill if it went ahead with underground links between buildings and fewer security checkpoints, says Liberal MP Marcel Proulx (Hull-Aylmer, Que.). The Hill Times reported on a document last week showing minutes from a meeting of the advisory committee of […]
Bloc Québécois leader says he doesn’t support Hezbollah
After facing criticism from the public and the media for participating in a Montreal rally on the Middle East conflict earlier this month, Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe clarified his participation in the rally on the Bloc’s website last week. “My participation in this peace rally was widely commented on by the media and various […]
Liberal caucus retreat in Vancouver this week
MONDAY, AUG. 21 Juliet O’Neill and the Ottawa Citizen Group Inc. v the Crown-The final round of arguments begin, expected to take a week. The Ottawa Citizen seeks RCMP search warrants of Jan. 21, 2004 struck down and the return of materials seized from reporter Juliet O’Neill. Superior Court Justice Lynn Ratushny will preside over […]
Bring the names of the provinces to the capital’s streets
Is Ottawa an exciting capital? Does it say enough about the country? On the first point, I think the answer is largely yes. On the second one, I think it is not really. These ought to be two key questions for the mandate review panel for the National Capital Commission, appointed by Transport Minister Lawrence […]
NDP charges smaller delegate fee for policy convention than Liberals
The federal New Democratic Party is charging a substantially smaller delegate fee for their policy convention next month than the federal Liberals who will hold their biennial and leadership convention in early December. The NDP is charging $175 for a regular delegate for their Sept. 8 to 10 policy convention in Montreal, compared to the […]
HEARD ON THE HILL
The stately grounds of the Royal Ottawa Golf Course played host to one of the most hotly anticipated social events of the summer this month, as over a hundred friends, family and former and current colleagues gathered to celebrate the 60th birthday of Conservative strategist, Earnscliffe lobbyist and Hill veteran Geoff Norquay. It was an […]
