GOPAC to hold its second conference in September in Tanzania
Conservative MP John Williams announced last week that that the Global Organization of Parliamentarians Against Corruption (GOPAC), “an international network of parliamentarians dedicated to good governance and combating corruption throughout the world,” will hold its second GOPAC Global Conference in September. Mr. Williams, a well-known and well-liked MP who in the past chaired the high-profile […]
Scientists warming up to climate change
Last summer, the national science academies of the G8 countries, as well as those of China, India and Brazil, issued a joint statement declaring climate change a real problem caused by human activity, especially among G8 nations. The warming of the atmosphere is caused by a rise in the level of greenhouse gases, the statement […]
Following the arrest of 17 ‘Al Qaeda-inspired’ terrorist suspects, the media have failed to ask one critical question: Why?
That long, awkward silence you hear is the blush of journalistic embarrassment. Two months after joining in an al-Qaeda witch burning, media have quietly dropped the story. Newsrooms will not even ask questions that now must be asked. It is our way of hoping the public forgets. Prompted by a June 3 police news conference […]
Liberal leadership candidates are failing to harness the power of the web
The Liberals have just lost a fleeting opportunity to renew, grow and attract significant voter attention. The sale of memberships has closed and the eleven leadership candidates’ stone-age web sites have done little to bring new, young liberals into the tent. Most sites have serious navigation challenges which often mask where things are and what […]
Harper the ‘man in the arena’, deserves more flowers than brickbats
Recently, perhaps reflecting an “end of days” silly summer season, we have seen a certain number of stories designed to fill column inches rather than enlighten. These include the non-meeting between Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Francophonie head and the prime minister’s role in evacuating Canadians from Lebanon. Regarding the former, the Canadian Press […]
G-8 leaders substituted illusory consensus for much-needed progress
Remember the G-8 summit and its pious commitments to peace and world trade? It’s been only three weeks since a self-congratulatory conclusion and the wreckage is everywhere. A conditional signal that Hezbollah and Israel should cease fire turned out to be a green light from the U.S., endorsed by me-too Canada, for the worst Middle […]
Former Sun Media bureau chief Bill Rodgers joins Prentice’s staff
Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Jim Prentice has hired a new director of communications for his ministerial political office. Bill Rodgers, former Ottawa bureau chief for Sun media joined Minister Prentice’s (Calgary Centre-North, Alta.) ministerial political staff recently. Mr. Rodgers, 54, who was laid off by Sun Media two months ago along with 120 […]
Foreign Affairs committee meeting is a matter of accountability
In the week preceding last week’s meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, four members of Parliament, New Democrat Alexa McDonough, Liberal Bernard Patry and Bloc Québécois members Francine Lalonde and Diane Bourgeois, sent letters to the Conservative chair of the committee, Kevin Sorenson. The letter writers requested that the committee be recalled for an […]
The Spin Doctors
Mike Storeshaw Conservative Strategist “Whether it’s principled or strategic, it’s a decision-a foreign concept to previous Liberal governments, who were content when it came to the Middle East to hesitate and equivocate under the guise of neutrality and ‘nuance’. “The government under this Prime Minister isn’t neutral between a democratic state and a terrorist organization […]
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Give Tories benefit of the doubt: Conservative Re: “‘Federal Accountability Act’ doesn’t contain 21 promised measures” (The Hill Times, July 31). I think there is too much pessimism in Mr. Conacher’s view of the Conservative government. I am more of a optimist type of guy. I like to think that the Conservatives have accomplished more […]
