Tonight on CTV National News, I’ll be reporting on an initiative to get a section of Highway 401 in Ontairo between Trenton and Toronto renamed the “Highway of Heroes”.

A grassroots honour guard has been manning every overpass on this 170–km stretch of highway to honour Canadian soldiers who have fallen ...   more »

A trio of environmental groups are suing federal Fisheries and Oceans Minister Loyola Hearn for failing to take steps to protect the Nooksack Dace, a small freshwater fish that once flourished in streams in British Columbia's Fraser River Valley.
The Nooksack Dace is listed as an endangered species in ...   more »

A new poll done for The Associated Press reports on the bookreading habits of Americans. I fear a poll of Canadians might produce a similarly dismal result:

A quarter of US adults say they read no books at all in the past year, according to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll. The ...   more »

Attention politics junkies: This just in from CTV’s public affairs department:

Triumph & Treachery: The Brian Mulroney Story,  A Landmark Political Special and CTV Exclusive Premiering September 9

Toronto, ON (August 21, 2007) – Leading Canadian broadcaster CTV announced a landmark political special, with the exclusive English television broadcast ...   more »

If you’re in Western Canada, watch out, Liberal MP Garth Turner is bringing his “Lost Tory” tour near you. Here’s the release from Turner’s office:

The lost Tory tour

Despite a cabinet shuffle and promises of new ideas, legions of Canadians who supported the notion of a new Conservative government ...   more »

As Ottawa gets set to welcome U.S. President George Bush and Mexican President Felipe Calderon, security is, understandably, highly visible and omnipresent. But it can get a bit absurd. I’ve just returned from the U.S. Embassy on Sussex Drive in downtown Ottawa. It’s a highly visible building just down the street ...   more »

Many in Ottawa -- media types, lobbyists, and opposition politicians -- thought that Calgary MP Diane Ablonczy (right) would easily make it to cabinet on Stephen Harper's first go-around with this in February of 2006. But it was only last week - three shuffles later -- that Ablonczy made it in, albeit as a junior minister. Ablonczy had been Parliamentary Secretary to Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and did some good work in that role, some caucus and other sources tell me. Today, on CTV's Question Period, my colleague Graham Richardson talked to Ablonczy about her elevation and her new job:    more »

Last week’s cabinet shuffle generated plenty of orders-in-council, including an OIC designating who-does-what in case the Prime Minister or other cabinet ministers are in a coma or otherwise incapacitated.

As it has been since this government was sworn in back in the late winter of 2006, Quebec MP Lawrence Cannon ...   more »

By now, of course, everyone’s heard that Peter Mackay is running National Defence, Maxime Bernier is at Foreign Affairs and so on. But there were some other important shuffles happening as well — a re-jigging of the membership of cabinet’s seven committees.

Let me repeat something I wrote ...   more »

More Canadians than ever believe Liberal leader Stephane Dion would make the best prime minister among the leaders of federal political leaders, polling company SES Research says in its latest survey. Dion’s personal popularity has surged, particularly in eastern Canada, says SES,  though he still trails Prime Minister Stephen Harper....   more »