But — and here’s the dilemma for a Canadian PM — we buy a lot of stuff from China. We sell them a lot of stuff, too, which creates Canadian jobs, and we want to sell them more. So: Given our self-interest, how hard would PM Harper be on human rights? Continue reading "He Told the Truth About China’s Tyranny"
Writing in the New Yorker last month, Hendrik Hertzberg digs up this interesting history:
Television debates were a long time coming, and the road was rocky. The first nationally broadcast faceoff between Presidential candidates was on the radio, in 1948, between Thomas E. Dewey and Harold Stassen, who were contending for the Republican nomination. (Dewey insisted on a single topic for the entire hour: “Shall the Communist Party in the United States be outlawed?”) The first such debate to be televised, in 1956, was also an intra-party affair, between the Democratic rivals Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver. Newton Minow, who was later President Kennedy’s chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (and won fame for calling television “a vast wasteland”), was Stevenson’s top aide, and it was largely his and Stevenson’s efforts that made possible the seminal Kennedy-Nixon debates. Newt Minow was also instrumental in reviving Presidential debates in 1976, after a sixteen-year hiatus, and in making them practically mandatory in every election since then.
via Presidential Debates, Citizens United, and the Politics of Media : The New Yorker.
After meeting with Prime Minister Harper in Ottawa on Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with groups of Canadian Jews before heading to Washington Monday for a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama. Ahead of that meeting, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic scored an 45-minute interview with Obama that focused exclusively on Iran, Israel, and the Middle East. Continue reading Obama to Iran and Israel: 'As President of the United States, I Don't Bluff'
Just in from Calgary Conservative MP Rob Anders in response to this
I have enormous respect for the men and women who have sacrificed in service of their country. I apologize for my comments and any offence they may have caused. I will continue to work on behalf of Canada’s veterans through the committee.
I’ll be talking to Molly Ball tonight on my show, Daily Brief on Sun News Network, about her article just up today at The Atlantic. It starts this way:
Ron Paul is helping Mitt Romney. It’s been obvious for months. You’d think Paul’s followers would be outraged by this — but they’re not.
The Paul-Romney alliance means the race’s most ideologically pure fiscal conservative has effectively sold out to the least conservative, least consistent, most establishmentarian candidate in the field. Romney favors the basic concept of progressive taxation and a government’s right to compel citizens to purchase health insurance. It’s unthinkable that he would, if elected, end the Federal Reserve. Alone among the candidates, he insists that there be no cuts to any military spending. All these stances are anathema to Paul’s staunchly absolutist world view.
You’ll want to read the rest: Does the Romney-Ron Paul Pact Make Paul a Sellout? – Molly Ball – Politics – The Atlantic.
This just out on various business newswires:
TVA GROUP SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH ROGERS COMMUNICATIONS
Montreal (Quebec), March 1, 2012 – TVA Group is proud to announce that it has reached an important agreement with Rogers Communications aimed at offering Rogers’ clients access to the Sun News and TVA Sports stations, Continue reading Sun News Network News: TVA and Rogers Communications strike a deal
Every year, the Parliamentary Press Gallery holds elections for its board of directors and officers. There are, roughly, about 330 members of the Canadian Parliamentary Press Gallery. Full-time membership in the gallery is restricted to professional journalists who spend most or all of their time covering the activities of the Government of Canada and do so on the Parliamentary Precinct. Continue reading Press gallery elections: No robocalls involved