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Liberals to be briefed on early leadership contingency plan

Claiming Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Conservatives “can’t be trusted,” federal Liberals will get a detailed briefing later this month from party officials on a contingency plan to elect their next leader much earlier than scheduled, if the Prime Minister suddenly calls a snap fall election, says the chair of the B.C. Liberal Caucus. […]

‘Liberals have never stood for neutrality’: Liberal Sen. Grafstein

The Middle East conflict is needlessly causing deep divisions in the Liberal Party because some don’t understand that the party “has never stood for neutrality,” Toronto Liberal Sen. Jerry Grafstein says. In an interview with The Hill Times, Sen. Grafstein said last week that the escalating Palestinian-Israeli conflict is going to be problematic for the […]

PM HARPER’S PRO-ISRAEL STANCE RISKS WINNING QUEBEC

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is risking his chances of winning Quebec by taking a pro-Israel position on the Middle East crisis and allying himself closely with the foreign policy of U.S. President George W. Bush, say critics. “Don’t you think it looks a lot like the positions on the war on Iraq?” Bloc Québécois MP […]

Some of the top staffers on Liberal leadership campaigns

Here’s an update to last week’s issue on campaign workers and advisers working in the 11 Liberal leadership campaigns. Some are paid staffers, but most leadership campaign officials interviewed said many of their campaign workers and supporters are unpaid. Liberal leadership candidate Carolyn Bennett Liberal MP Carolyn Bennett’s (St. Paul’s, Ont.) leadership campaign is headed […]

CRTC about to set a new course under the Harper government

After some 50 years as the little broadcaster that kept growing in it’s own unique way, CHUM is selling out. Canada will have one less broadcaster on both the television and radio fronts. There’s no question that the offer to purchase by Bell Globemedia (BGM), which owns CTV, TSN, NewsNet and The Globe and Mail, […]

Kirby wants another open debate on public health, but why?

Liberal Senator Michael Kirby wants another “open” debate on the sustainability of public health care in Canada (The Hill Times, July 17). But after the 2002 Kirby report, the subsequent Romanow report, numerous federal-provincial health summits, the Canadian Medical Association’s various position papers, and relentless attacks on public health care from right-wing think tanks, do […]

I have never been reluctant to speak up and work for justice: Telegdi

In his “Wiseguys” column in the July 10 issue of The Hill Times, Warren Kinsella made his regular attempt to portray me as a Nazi sympathizer, and anti-Semitic to boot. How he comes up with this nonsense is beyond me. But judge for yourself. I was not born in Canada. I was born behind the […]

They don’t teach mathematics in journalism schools, eh?

They don’t teach mathematics at journalism school. That must explain why news coverage based on numbers is so often mangled by media. There are many interesting examples. When Statistics Canada recently issued a news release stating the typical Canadian spends 12 days a year in traffic, journalists got excited. “A whopping 12 days!” said CTV’s […]

DND’s Reserve recruiting needs improvement: ombudsman

Recruiting reserve members for the Canadian Armed Forces is done on an ad hoc basis, does not meet the needs of the Forces and must be improved to meet the government’s military objectives, says the Department of National Defence’s ombudsman. “Although there are some very good practices in place to recruit reservists, there is significant […]

Environics hosts post-election pollsters meeting, looks ahead

Pollsters from five firms met in Toronto last month for a debriefing on the recent election. It was the fourth such meeting, hosted by polling firm Environics at the Intercontinental Hotel, to discuss polling issues such as findings collected throughout the election period, the impact of party advertising, the effectiveness of daily tracking, media polling […]