Andrew Scheer, (left) a Conservative MP from Saskatchewan, launched his blog at the end of last month.

“My intent for this space is to have an area where I can post topics of interest, and you can respond,” Scheer writes in his blog’s inaugural post. “The topics will largely be ...   more »

Reuters is reporting that top executives at the American networks — the AmNets, in our shorthand — ought be blogging.

NBC could create Internet blogs for its top news anchors and celebrity interviewers as it seeks to maintain the appeal of U.S. network news, its top executive said on Tuesday. ...   more »

Warren Kinsella, Chretien loyalist and Martin foe, testified under oath at the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee today. Here’s some excerpts of his testimony:

There is some debate about the meaning of some of his remarks. He said he received a phone call minutes before testifying in which the ...   more »

Speaking under oath to the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee, Chretien loyalist Warren Kinsella said this afternoon that minutes before he was to begin testifying in front of the committee, he received a phone call from someone in Prime Minister Paul Martin’s office which he said was designed ...   more »

Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s privacy commissioner, has published her report on the CIBC faxing confidential customer data to strangers in Canada and the U.S.

“I was disappointed that an apparently well-organized institution such as CIBC failed to recognize that the misdirected faxes were a privacy issue. That the bank's privacy practices ...   more »

Conservative supporter Stephen Taylor ran the numbers to come up with a couple of interesting posts at his blog. His first post details Liberal MPs who won by the slimmest of margins. Cabinet ministers Pierre Pettigrew, Liza Frulla, and Anne McLellan show up on this list. He also posts a list ...   more »

Canada’s privacy commissioner has finished her investigation into the case of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce faxing confidential customer data out of the country. Officials with the commissioner’s office say she’ll release her report tomorrow (Monday).

Jennifer Stoddart began her investigation after we first reported on both CTV and ...   more »

The annual awards from the Canadian Association of Journalists will be handed out in Winnipeg next month. The awards recognize some of the best work that’s happened in TV, print, radio and online journalism in Canada over the last year. I’m honoured to be among the the nominees for an ...   more »

I must say: Many in the Parliamentary Press Gallery thought Pat O’Brien was about to quit. But, in fact, he announced this morning that, after struggling with the idea of quitting the Liberal caucus to sit as an independent, he decided to stay in the caucus. He says he agreed ...   more »

Pat O’Brien (left), the Liberal Member of Parliament for  the southern Ontario riding of London-Fanshawe, has called a press conference for 11 am this morning to discuss his future. O’Brien, earlier this week, called a Liberal MP Sarmite Bulte a “blonde bimbo” after she referred to him as a ...   more »