Conservatives to tackle election reform plan in Liberal-red Atlantic
Federal Conservatives are set to take aim at the Liberal government’s electoral reform initiative during a late-summer caucus meeting in Halifax next week, after only three Conservative MPs have so far taken up a special Commons committee invitation to consult constituents on the project through town-hall meetings in their electoral districts. One of the Conservatives […]
More bafflegab from Veterans Affairs—the minister this time, writes Winter
Veteran Affairs Minister Minister Kent Hehr’s letter to the St. John’s Telegram, explaining the July 1 ceremony in France commemorating 100th anniversary of the Battle of Beaumont-Hamel, was mostly a re-hashing of the bafflegab issued by his PR staff, with his personal observations added. The most potent symbols of a nation are the flag and the […]
Who said infrastructure’s not sexy?
Contrary to comedian John Oliver’s famous depiction of infrastructure as not being sexy, except for when it is being blown up in Hollywood movies, author Ryan Gravel claims that infrastructure can be sexy when “done right.” In his book Where We Want to Live: Reclaiming Infrastructure for a New Generation of Cities, Gravel says that […]
Atlantic rookie Liberal MP Fraser says next Supreme Court judge should be from region
Rookie Nova Scotia Liberal MP Colin Fraser says he’s concerned about Atlantic Canada no longer being guaranteed a seat on the Supreme Court of Canada under his government’s new appointment process and wants “strengthened confirmation” that the next candidate will be from the region. “My constituents have expressed their concern that apparently we may not necessarily […]
‘I knew I had big shoes to fill,’ Daniel Blaikie on winning the riding his father represented for nearly 30 years
Daniel Blaikie is not your average politician. The 32-year-old is a philosopher-turned-electrician who traded his steel-toed boots for a suit and tie and followed in the footsteps of his father when he ran successfully in the last federal election and in an attempt to take down the Harper government in his “corner of the country.” […]
People of Newfoundland and Labrador deserve an apology: Winter
The battle of Beaumont Hamel in France on July 1, 1916, was a battle fought by the “Newfoundland” regiment and has nothing whatsoever to do with Canada. In 1949, when our province joined Canada, all five of the Newfoundland and Labrador military remembrance sites in Europe were passed over to the Canadian Department of Veterans Affairs […]
Supreme Court, like Parliament, can accommodate unilingual members
The prime minister soon has another important choice to make. Justice Thomas Cromwell will be stepping down from the Supreme Court of Canada on Sept. 1 and will need to be replaced. This will be Justin Trudeau’s first appointment to the highest court in the land. Cromwell’s seat on the court by convention is designated as […]
Ex-MP Scott Armstrong on his new life as an unelected Conservative critic and staffer
With the Conservatives wiped off the electoral map in Atlantic Canada in the 2015 election, defeated former Nova Scotia MP Scott Armstrong took on a unique role, joining the official opposition shadow cabinet and becoming a paid Atlantic issues adviser in the official opposition leader’s office. That’s meant spending the last few months bouncing back […]
Politics this morning: Trudeau to make youth council announcement
*An important note to our readers: tomorrow’s Wednesday edition will be an online only version of The Hill Times. There will be no physical paper or digital download, but you can still count on full coverage of all the usual insider news, global developments, and opinion pieces on our website, www.hilltimes.com. Happening today in the […]
Want to improve a child’s health? Sometimes that may mean giving their parents a raise
When parents bring a child into the clinic, they do so hoping for help to treat an acute illness or a longer-term problem. It might be something as simple as an ear infection, a chronic illness like asthma, or something more socially and psychologically complex such as ADHD. The expectation is that the child can […]
