China to mark anniversary of diplomatic relations with Canada next month, but media should hold the misleading hype
Journalists are never to take anything at face value. It is their best quality. They live by the elemental rule of media once summed up in a copywriter’s slogan: “You must mind the ancient law and never write what you ain’t saw.” Next month marks the anniversary of diplomatic relations between Canada and Communist China. […]
What if Powers and Kinsella wrote the next Throne Speech?
Remember that this is a minority Parliament and that doesn’t mean voters have been happy about what goes on here. Mr. Powers: Honourable Mucky Mucks and fellow Canadians: I am your new hip Governor General, the one who Prime Minister Paul Martin picked to make him seem with it. Prime Minister, please stop flailing your […]
Conservatives’ Harper emerging as ‘pragmatic leader’: Cohen
Campaign 2006 is Conservative Party Leader Stephen Harper’s to lose, say election experts. The difference between the Liberals and the Conservatives is slowly disappearing as Canadians are beginning to see a strong leader in Stephen Harper, members of a public policy panel said last week. “We’re seeing the emergence of a pragmatic leader,”said Andrew Cohen […]
Olivia Letemplier managing Metcalfe’s election campaign
Asenior ministerial staffer is managing the campaign of an Ottawaarea Liberal candidate. Olivia Letemplier, Atlantic assistant to Transport Minister Jean Lapierre (Outremont, Que.), who is also Prime Minister Paul Martin’s (LaSalle-Emard, Que.) Quebec lieutenant, is managing the campaign of Isabel Metcalfe, Liberal candidate in the riding of Carleton-Mississippi Mills, Ont., who is running against incumbent […]
Harper knocks out Martin for MVP ranking: Politics Poll: Embattled Tory Gurmant Grewal is least valuable politician in The Hill Times’ Ninth Annual All Politics Poll: 2005
Propelled by a block of Tory MPs, Conservative Leader Stephen Harper has dethroned Prime Minister Paul Martin for Most Valuable Politician in 2005 in The Hill Times’ ninth annual All Politics Poll, the best and worst of politics. Of the 98 respondents, 20 per cent, all Conservatives, sang Mr. Harper’s praises as the leader who […]
Robinson vs. Fry: It’s a two-way race in Vancouver Centre
‘This campaign is not about rings and about crosses,’ says Svend Robinson, referring to Hedy Fry’s 2001 unsubstantiated claims that in Prince George, B.C., ‘crosses are burning on lawns as we speak’ and his own theft of a ring. VANCOUVER, B.C.-The Vancouver Centre election campaign is shaping up to what many predict will be a […]
2005: Too odd for fiction, the year in newspaper headlines: Some of the best lines of the year: ‘small-town cheap,’ and ‘I’m entitled to my entitlements’
It was too odd for fiction, 2005. New catchphrases entered the vocabulary – “small-town cheap” and “I’m entitled to my entitlements.” It was the year of Belinda, and gas line-ups, and federal contractors trying to out-leg reporters down the courthouse steps. It was the year Germany banned smiles on passport photos, and a cardboard box […]
Conservatives set sights on Pontiac, claim riding is deliverable: But it’s also true that their best effort could hand a staunchly federalist riding to separatists
MANIWAKI, QUE. – Along with annoying a country otherwise busy with tipsy trees and relatives, this cross-country winter campaign is also unnecessary. With modest creativity, three national and one regional party could fight this election in a single riding that begins within sight of the national capital. It’s been called the Pontiac since long before […]
Conservative not intimidated by Liberal Cabinet Ministers in riding: But strong Conservative incumbent O’Connor expected to easily win in Carleton-Mississippi Mills, Ont.
Isabel Metcalfe has been spending most of her mornings at an OC Transpo Park & Ride lately. The Liberal Party candidate in the Ontario riding of Carleton-Mississippi Mills likes meeting people, and that’s her preferred method of canvassing in the election campaign. She is trying to meet with as many people in the riding as […]
