New House session to be dominated by more politics: Liberals may engineer their own defeat and then blame the Opposition
This House session will be dominated more by “politics than policy”in the lead-up to the election which means an extra workload and an extra hectic schedule for all staffers on the Hill, and particularly for senior PMO and Liberal Party headquarters staffers, say Liberal insiders. “Typically as you’re heading into an election, everything all of […]
Cannon’s a catch for Harper
Re: “Dissident Quebec Conservatives slam Harper’s leadership,”(The Hill Times, Sept. 19).That an out-of-power political party has grumblers and schemers would not come as a great surprise to most of us, but perhaps it is front-page news here, which tends to put “life in sleepy Canada” in perspective. In the vale of tears anger and juicy […]
Tory Sen. LeBreton’s CBC theories insulting to reporters
Re: “Sen. LeBreton’s right to be concerned,”(The Hill Times letters to the editor, Sept. 19). Boris DeWiel overlooks several possibilities in his comment on Conservative Sen. Marjory LeBreton’s original column in The Hill Times. First, is it necessarily true that the CBC is biased toward the Liberals? Second, assuming biased coverage, does it affect the […]
Locked out CBCers doing good deeds
From picket lines to soup lines… Locked-out CBC employees in Ottawa quietly used their forced time off work this summer to lend a few helping hands here and there. Starting the second week of the lockout, which began in mid-August, the CBCers – on-air stars,”techies,”producers and all – took turns to help prepare and serve […]
Governing Liberals contemplating fall election
Liberals are seriously thinking about pulling the plug on Parliament this fall. The governing Liberals are seriously contemplating pulling the plug on Parliament later next month and calling an election, government and Liberal insiders say. “It’s a long haul between now and the middle of April,” said one top government insider, who suggested that the […]
Glass houses
It is all very well that Prime Minister Paul Martin criticized the UN for its lacklustre performance in terms of reform. However, back at home there is also a lot of “empty rhetoric”floating around about achieving Millenium Development Goals of reducing global poverty and disease, while slashing CIDA’s budget from $140-million in 2005 down to […]
Stairs’ comments ‘blatantly false’: Conservative Party’s Adlers: Carol Jamieson organized pro-merger movement within Parkdale-High Park, says Tory
Two things to note regarding the Sept. 19 article by Julie Van Dusen titled,”Dissident Quebec Conservatives slam Harper’s leadership,”(The Hill Times, Sept. 19). First, the article has me listed as a former candidate in Parkdale-High Park, Ont. I was, in fact, the former riding president up until January of this year when I chose not […]
China surpassing U.S. as Japan’s biggest trading partner should be a wake up call for America
This year China has achieved two important milestones. In 2005, China surpassed the U.S. as Japan’s biggest trading partner and she has surpassed Canada as the biggest trading partner of the U.S. If China’s turbo-charged growth continues, she will become the biggest trading partner of almost every nation. However, China’s astonishing rise as a global […]
The Spin Doctors: “Have you had a chance to read Peter C. Newman’s explosive new book The Secret Mulroney Tapes and what did you think of it?”
Leslie Swartman Liberal Strategist “The one thing I learned on my overseas shopping trip (which I cleverly masqueraded as an important transport mission to China, according to Jane Taber) was that while hard Canadian news is difficult to come by so far away, political gossip always ricochets around the world. “So it was fun to […]
Washington concerned over Canada’s struggle with its 21st century security stance and vague spending pledges
‘Dry-docking Canada’s entire submarine force for months following an accidental fire/death on the Chicoutimi was beyond U.S. comprehension. How would the Canadian public respond to the shoot-down of a troop-carrying helicopter leading to 15 plus deaths – as was the case in April for an elite U.S. unit in Afghanistan? Traumatized? Resolute?’ WASHINGTON, D.C. – […]
