Four o’clock today will indeed be the witching hour, when reporters, senior government officials, interest groups and associations, and the odd communications adviser or two, will emerge from a day-long “lock up” in Ottawa to release to Canadians details of the federal budget.
I really liked the way my old Washington colleague John Ibbitson summed up [...]
I’ve spent the last few days trying to find out where the Ontario Conservatives stand on pension reforms. I’m a bit surprised that I haven’t found much.
Pensions have been getting a lot of attention of late – Canada’s Finance ministers met in December in Whitehorse to talk about how best to encourage Canadians to save [...]
It’s difficult to decide whose face is less recognizable than the original, reality star Heidi Montag’s or the Ontario cabinet’s. As a Toronto Star editorial this week pointed out, just nine months ago Ontario’s inner sanctum at Queen’s Park featured the likes of Michael Bryant, David Caplan, George Smitherman, and Jim Watson.
Of the [...]
Last week, the Legislature at Queen’s Park adjourned for the holidays, but not without some late-in-the session drama.
It came in the form of an impromptu filibuster by the Official Opposition over — what else — the HST. It only last a couple of days, but among other things, it created quite a buzz at Queen’s [...]
Just in time for Christmas, Ontario political and news junkies have a completely new, fresh, never-before-seen, Ontario-focused news aggregator. Launched yesterday, Ontario News Watch pulls together the province’s emerging news stories, opinion leaders and top issues, seven days a week, and throughout each day.
Let the monitoring begin…
On his first day on the job, Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff’s new chief of staff, Peter Donolo, got off to a strong start with the appointment of a new senior country-wide team to the Office of the Leader of the Opposition (OLO).
Unlike the mismanaged, and frankly sad departure of Ian Davey, the announcement was clear [...]
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