‘I don’t want to be anybody’s hero’: Three-term Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish pushes highly-dramatic vote in House
It was sex, in a manner of speaking, that got Mississauga Centre Liberal MP Carolyn Parrish started in politics. Two weeks ago, the three-term MP set off a rip-roaring controversy that resulted in the biggest parliamentary embarrassment to Jean Chretien from his own benches in nine years, with serious Liberal leadership implications. Ms. Parrish did […]
Searching for alternatives to usual government spin cycle [Presentation of Canadian Policy Research Awards]
[Not Transcribed] Cram 800 of the country’s leading policy wonks into the cavernous Ottawa Congress Centre and the one thing you don’t expect to hear are a lot of laughs. But there were a few quite amusing moments at last week’s dinner presentation of the Canadian Policy Research Awards. The best laugh of the evening […]
Blight of today’s “news for profit”
[Not Transcribed] Bruce Hutchison, once Canada’s pre-eminent political observer, lamented to his colleague Grant Dexter of The Winnipeg Free Press that “a lousy press is this nation’s worst weakness.” The language was not typically Hutchisonian nor, for that matter, was the thought. The genesis of the complaint arose from journalism’s failure of expectations as to […]
Staffers gain leverage: HR commissioner
Parliament Hill staffers will be more likely to report human rights violations following last week’s landmark Federal Court decision, says the chief of the Canadian Human Rights Commission. “I think that many employees on the Hill thought that that legislation didn’t apply to them and I think it’s important that they should know that they […]
