Health Minister Petitpas Taylor says new Canada Food Guide creators were not influenced by industry groups
Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor says she was lobbied by industry groups on the newly-released Canada Food Guide, but says the people who created it were not. “The people who put together the Food Guide did not receive any meetings from lobby groups at all,” Ms. Petitpas Taylor (Moncton-Riverview-Dieppe, N.B.) said in a wide-ranging sit-down interview […]
Rebecca Caldwell joins Finance Minister Morneau’s team
Finance Minister Bill Morneau has made some changes to his ministerial staffing roster, including recently hiring on Rebecca Caldwell as a new senior adviser. Ms. Caldwell was previously chief of staff to Women and Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef. She was recently replaced in that role by former Google Canada head Leslie Church, who was […]
Just price for drugs: the eleventh hour
The concept of “Just Price” goes back to medieval scholastic economic thinking, which was dominant for 500 years. To ensure that the price is just, authorities had to determine that the merchant was not exploiting other people’s misery by charging excessive price and inducing dearth (caristia inducatur). People should make profit by serving others, not […]
Parliamentarians christen new digs
From the House of Commons curator, to the opposition lobby staffer, to the journalist who broke a national story, to the PMO’s Canada-U.S. relations team, every week, ordinary people are doing some extraordinary work on the Hill. The Hill Life is a new weekly newsletter sent every Friday focused on the people in front of and behind the scenes. […]
MP Erin Weir still has sights set on NDP nomination
Former NDP MP Erin Weir is still gunning to become the party’s official candidate, with a resolution recently passed at the riding association’s meeting expressing support for him to run in the upcoming nomination race in Regina-Lewvan, Sask. “We believe the local NDP membership should decide who to nominate as our candidate,” read an email […]
Feds to establish panel to alert public of election interference
Ottawa is setting up a group of civil servants responsible for alerting the public about political interference in the upcoming federal election, in an attempt to depoliticize the process, while it works to secure the co-operation of social media platforms. The federal government on Wednesday announced new measures intended to bolster its efforts to monitor […]
Senate Conservatives plan to ‘gut’ Liberal gun bill, and they may have the numbers to do it
The Liberals’ firearms legislation is going to get a rough ride in the Upper Chamber, according to the Conservative Senate critic, who says the opposition is planning a set of amendments to “gut” Bill C-71. A 12-member Senate committee, composed of five Conservatives and at least one unaffiliated Senator who, like the Tories, has criticized […]
Politics This Morning: Gould to announce new measures to combat disinformation
Good Wednesday morning, In the face of concerns about foreign interference in the 2019 elections, Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould is slated to announce new funding to combat the spread of disinformation and fake news. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan are also expected to be at the presser in the National Press Theatre at […]
Svend Robinson doesn’t deserve another run at public office, says reader
Re: “‘I would respectfully suggest to Tom Mulcair that he button it up,’ Robinson says Mulcair’s swipes at Singh ‘inappropriate’” (The Hill Times, Jan. 25, online). I find it fascinating that Svend Robinson, someone who was forced from office due to theft, would have the temerity to comment on Tom Mulcair, much less even lift […]
Canada is a target of Russia’s disinformation. Let’s be ready
On Jan. 15, CBC’s The National ran a story exposing Russia’s disinformation campaign targeting Canada and the Ukrainian-Canadian community. As Canada’s federal election draws nearer, I believe the Kremlin’s propaganda machine will increasingly target our country with anti-Canadian fabrications in an attempt to sow discord, conflict, and to undermine our democratic institutions. The CBC reported […]
