Senate Speaker will be hosting Australia’s Senate president
MONDAY, JULY 24 Speaker of the Senate to host President of the Senate of Australia-The Speaker of the Senate of Canada, Noël Kinsella, is to host President of the Senate of Australia Paul Henry Calvert during a state visit to New Brunswick, July 23 to July 25. On July 24 Mr. Calvert is to visit […]
A Canadian passport is a Canadian passport, Mr. Turner
Mr. Turner, what were you thinking? According to Tim Naumetz’ frontpage story in The Ottawa Citizen last week, Conservative MP Garth Turner, who represents Halton, Ont., said Canadians with two passports are not “accidental tourists” and that taxpayers might question the costs. Mr. Turner told the newspaper that he sympathizes with constituents who questioned the […]
Karygiannis quits as Volpe’s national campaign manager
Liberal MP Jim Karygiannis (Scarborough-Agincourt, Ont.), campaign manager for Liberal leadership contestant Joe Volpe (Eglinton-Lawrence, Ont.), resigned from Mr. Volpe’s campaign Friday. The Canadian Press reported on Friday that the two had split over the Middle East crisis. Mr. Volpe has been a supporter of Israel’s right to self-defence and its recent air strikes against […]
Harper catches Liberals off-guard, Grits could lose substantial Jewish vote in next general election
TORONTO-The situation in the Middle East is too complicated, dangerous and important to be a footnote in a column on Canadian politics. Furthermore, it’s a blatant waste of time to engage in a debate here in Canada over the interpretation of the word “measured,” used by Prime Minister Stephen Harper while the real issue is […]
Layton gets tested for toxics
Doctors drew blood from NDP Leader Jack Layton (Toronto-Danforth, Ont.) last week to test him for harmful toxics. The media event, at Toronto’s Health Services Clinic, was part of an ongoing campaign by Environmental Defence, a Toronto environmental advocacy group, to educate the public about harmful toxics that people come into contact with through consumer […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
