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I receive no fees, considerations, etc. etc. for the posts on this blog nor do I have any plans to accept any. My salary is paid by Canwest Global Communications Corp. I work for that company as the Ottawa-based National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service.
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View Article  Day 1 - Iggy, then Dion

Political junkie alert: The Liberal has a very cool real-time delegate selection results ticker. With the first of three days of voting over, Michael Ignatieff is, as advertised, leading the way with 239 delegates who will vote for him on the first ballot of December's leadership convention. That the ...   more »

View Article  Volpe to appeal -- says party was too hasty

Joe Volpe, facing a $20,000 fine, from the party he hopes to lead, says the panel that levied the fine didn’t get it right:

Press Release

Statement from Volpe campaign.

September 29, 2006, Ottawa- The Honourable Joseph Volpe, Member of Parliament for Eglinton Lawrence and Liberal leadership candidate released the ...   more »

View Article  Volpe fined but gets to stay in the race

Minutes ago, the Liberal Party of Canada announced that it had levied a fine of $20,000 against the Joe Volpe ...   more »

View Article  The Liberal's Super Weekend approaches
It's a big weekend if you're a Liberal -- (a big weekend for us Ottawa journalists, too, for tomorrow is the annual Canadian Press golf tournament and the weather forecast looks promising. But I digress ...) for this is the weekend that, at riding associations across the country, card-carrying members ...   more »
View Article  Boats with guns -- on our lakes -- Part Two

Last week, I noted that the U.S. Coast Guard was set to embark on live fire exercises on the Great Lakes with their new machine guns. Today, the Globe’s Margaret Philp goes deep on this whole subject, noting many objections by Canadians concerned about the optics, about safety, ...   more »

View Article  Canada's New Government?

One of the, erm, amusing directives to emanate from the Prime Minister’s Office has been an instruction that federal government ...   more »

View Article  32 million and counting

Statistics Canada today released the latest poplulation numbers for this great Dominion. As for July 1, there are now 32,623,500 people in this world who call themselves Canadian. That represents an increase of 324,000 compared to the same date last year. Most of that increase in populuation is a result of welcoming ...   more »

View Article  Commons trade committee cancels softwood hearings

Conservative members of the House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade, with support from Liberal members of that committee, ...   more »

View Article  [Air India inquiry] Lata Pada - what this inquiry is all about

Lata Pada and her familyThis is a picture of Lata Pada and her family from the early 1980s. The others in this photo, her ...   more »

View Article  Air India Inquiry gets underway

I’ve been tasked with covering the Air India inquiry or, as it’s formally known, the Commission of Inquiry into the Investigation of the Bombing of Air India Flight 182. It may also come to be referred to as the Major Commission, after John Major, the retired Supreme Court justice ...   more »


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