It was a good news Christmas-like story which, while incomplete at this point, showed promise of a renewed relationship between Kairos, a faith-based, multi-denominational advocacy group and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). But the story was buried in the 11th paragraph of a story in the December 16 Guelph Mercury. The back story is […]
OttawaWatch: Courting evangelicals
Press gallery colleague Brian Lilley, who provides Parliament Hill news and analysis to the influential CFRB group of radio stations across Canada, has a most interesting blog post, this week. In it, he reveals that Toronto-area Liberal MP John McKay has been designated by his leader, Michael Ignatieff, to help the party reach out to […]
Back and forth: OttawaWatch
A small but interesting item appeared in both Maclean’s and the Toronto Star in the past few days. It concerned the move of Kevin Chan, the executive assistant to Privy Council Clerk Kevin Lynch, to a senior advisor post for Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff. Lynch is, of course, the main link between the prime minister’s […]
An outpouring of potpourri – OttawaWatch
WE ARE starting off 2009 with best wishes for a Happy New Year — and a potpourri of stories that all point to the need for good communication of the listening kind around Parliament Hill.
Act of random kindness
“Today I will commit one random act of senseless kindness — will you?” Have you ever seen that bumper sticker? Better yet have you ever been the recipient of a random act of senseless kindness? Last week I was at the IGA picking up a couple of things. When I got to the cashier, my […]
Free speech and diversified mosquitos
Some discussion on a list serve of which I recently became a part has concerned freedom of speech and of the press. The focal point was a complaint which has been laid with several Canadian human rights commissions, against Maclean’s magazine, for a Mark Steyn excerpt they ran from his recent book, America Alone: The […]
OttawaWatch: Mulroney’s interesting Christmas tale
It’s Christmas time in the city. And in this city — Ottawa — the move is from political strategizing and cross-checking to goodwill and trying to understand the reason for the season. So, in wishing OttawaWatch readers the best at Christmas, I would like, in the best tradition of Charles Dickens, to talk about politics past, […]
OttawaWatch: The case for careful conversation
One of my press gallery colleagues asked me, earlier this week, if I knew whether Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien is religious. My colleague said a radio reporter had made that assertion. Further, the reporter contended, O’Brien’s faith had sustained him in the wake of his current situation. The mayor was charged criminally in connection with allegedly trying to […]
OttawaWatch: Ethics at issue
The Supreme Court of Canada reserved judgment, this week, on an appeal by septuagenarian Vancouver broadcaster Rafe Mair against a BC appeal court finding that he had defamed a socially-conservative political activist. The case has been proceeding upwards in the courts since 1999, when Mair told his then CKNW audience: “I really hate to give Kari Simpson any more […]
OttawaWatch: Details in a global context
Have you ever seen a television clip showing a satellite shot of planet Earth, which then zooms in on some tiny square footage of the same planet, with astounding detail? Such a clip is designed, at times, to demonstrate the technical developments that permit the observation and photographing of relatively small items on the earth […]
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