The Green Party: Quickly becoming somebodies
The new Green Party leader will be elected on Sunday, Aug. 27, the final day of the Green Party of Canada’s leadership convention beginning Thursday at the Ottawa Congress Centre. Elizabeth May, David Chernushenko, and Jim Fannon are the three candidates in the running. The Green Party of Canada has run a full slate of […]
Grits gave up strategic approach to Khan appointment
Recently Prime Minister Stephen Harper invited Liberal MP Wajid Khan to serve as his Middle East adviser. Having consulted with interim Liberal Party leader Bill Graham (and obtained his agreement), Khan agreed. This was as close to a mea culpa as you are likely to get from PM Harper. The outreach to Khan reflects Harper’s […]
Proportional representation the key issue for Green candidate Fannon
Even though the title ‘Green Party leadership candidate’ suggests Jim Fannon, a real estate agent who also owns a hemp food store, would name the environment as his biggest priority, he doesn’t. He names electoral reform. “The way we elect our politicians is broken. It’s sadly flawed, it’s hundreds of years old, it was designed […]
‘I have no regrets about leaving with anything unfulfilled’
Nova Scotia Liberal Senator Michael Kirby announced last week that he would step down from the Senate on Oct. 5, 10 years early. “I’ve always had a history, I guess, of leaving a job that I sort of thought I had reached a peak,” said Sen. Kirby, 65. Former prime minister Pierre Elliot Trudeau appointed […]
PM Harper may defy the advice of the public service, but not the electorate
There has been a significant amount of discussion in recent days about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s governing style. Lawrence Martin, political biographer and columnist for The Globe and Mail, wrote a column last week about Mr. Harper’s relationship with the senior ranks of the public service, in which Mr. Martin pointed to a set of […]
Climate change versus BSE: Canadian concerns are curious
It is always interesting, indeed often baffling, to note where individuals and nations concentrate their energies and attentions. Canadians presumably are puzzled as to why Americans have spent years obsessing over what would appear to be a personal lifestyle choice such as same-sex marriage or tertiary symbolism such as flag burning while refusing to address […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Don’t use Canadian troops for electioneering: HT reader Stephen Harper, during a campaign-style speech to his caucus on Aug. 3, said Liberals are divided on “whether or not to support our troops in Afghanistan.” This is a despicable comment and a bald-faced lie. Every politician, of every stripe, supports our troops. Stephen Harper did the […]
Vos joins James Moore’s office as a special assistant
James Moore, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Public Works and Government Services has hired a new assistant. Melanie Vos, a former communications officer in the PMO communications office is starting her new job as special assistant to Mr. Moore (Port Moody-Westwood-Port Coquitlam, B.C.) this week. Ms. Vos was not available for an interview last […]
MPs keep busy over the summer with French lessons, constituency work, and of course, the Calgary Stampede
It’s the end of June and the House rises for the summer-members of Parliament are about to embark on two months-plus of beach time, right? Not quite. I was part of the ranks who thought that too, until I witnessed it first hand. So what are they up to? Hope and promise at home: 16th […]
Ontario Liberal Party boat cruise in Toronto this week
MONDAY, AUG. 14 Arctic Change and Coastal Communities-The Coastal Zone Canada Association, a national society of coastal zone professionals and others interested in promoting coastal zone management, holds an international conference. The conference will examine the large-scale and pervasive changes taking place in the Arctic Ocean. Aug. 14 to 18. Tuktoyaktuk, N.W.T. For more information […]
