Fleishman Hillard: The Political View

With the Grammy Awards being handed out last Sunday in Los Angeles, it got me thinking, what are federal politicians listening to these days on their iPod or Zune during this time of prorogation? No doubt many are rocking out to Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers in the privacy of their own homes, but would [...]

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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 [...]

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We enter a new week in Ottawa with the Facebook group ‘Canadians against Proroguing Parliament’ (CAPP) having achieved an incredible 200,000 members
Polls that came out last week seemed to each suggest the Conservatives have lost support since the Prime Minister prorogued Parliament at the end of December. At the same time, the polls did not [...]

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For political animals there’s a very interesting article in this month’s Scientific American by Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic Magazine (www.skeptic.com ) about a scientific study shedding light on the differences between conservatives and liberals.
We all know conservatives are “meat-eating, gun-toting, hard-drinking, Bible-thumping, black-and-white-thinking…” while liberals are “hybrid-driving, tree-hugging, whale-saving, wishy-washy…”  something-or-others. Right? While we [...]

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You know, there’s something about all these CTV Senators that makes them hard to listen to or believe when they spin.
I first noticed it with Jim Munson when he joined Chretien. No doubt that the PM’s overall communications improved, but whenever Munson himself tried to spin the government’s lines it sounded flat and unbelievable, [...]

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