A History of the New School, and of the Questions Involved in the Disruption of the Presbyterian Church in 1838. by Samuel J. Baird ...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Canada's Transport Minister John Baird and the Honourable Rob Merrifield, Minister of State (Transport), today announced the appointment of Mr. Thomas A. Bennett to the board of directors of VIA Rail Canada Inc.
The Sir Robert Bond Papers (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Sandy Collins , former executive assistant to Paul Oram is the provincial Conservative candidate in Terra Nova in the by-election yet to be called. Orange Update: Robyn Brentnall is the New Democrat in the running. Red Update : The Liberal candidate is John Baird. He was elected in a nomination fight on October 17 . Two things: 1. Remember what your humble e-scribbler said about a party that can only...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Canadian Red Cross injury prevention programs today were granted Transport Canada's Marine Safety Award for 2009, in recognition of their outstanding contribution to Canadian marine safety. Canada's Transport Minister John Baird announced the award today, coinciding with a ceremony held in Ottawa at the biannual meeting of the Canadian Marine Advisory Council.
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Much-loved CTV journalist Rosemary Thompson leaves the Hill to join the National Arts Centre as their communications director. She held a farewell bash at Ottawa’s watering hole Brixton’s. Below is Thompson with her daughter Jasmine. Transport minister John Baird. NDP MP Peter Stoffer. Thompson with Canwest’s David Akin.
Accidental Deliberations (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Yesterday's Question Period serves up another example of the lengths the Cons have gone to in trying to control the flow of information from federal institutions - even ones which are supposed to be independent of the government: Mrs. Bonnie Crombie (Mississauga—Streetsville, Lib.) : Mr. Speaker, recently I requested a meeting with officials from a crown corporation, namely Canada Post. To my...
Impolitical (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
What a comic event yesterday, John Baird's office dumping boxes of documents on federal stimulus spending on the Parliamentary Budget Office . A sterling example of how the Harper Conservatives do transparency and accountability, 1950s style. There are such things as Excel and "computers," guys: The Harper government has dumped three boxloads of information about its efforts to stimulate...
Runesmith's Canadian Content (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I remember an episode of some 'Law & Order'-type show in which the prosecution (or maybe the defence) requests documents under discovery, and the opposing side responds by dumping box after box after box of paper in their office. It seems John Baird saw that episode too. The Harper government has dumped three boxloads of information about its efforts to stimulate Canada's sputtering economy on...
Macleans.ca (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
While John Baird’s office offers the Parliamentary Budget Office a 4,476-page spreadsheet, the folks at Spatial Databox have put together a customizable map. Enjoy.
Bionic Liberal (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Dear Mr. Ignatieff, Canadians are tired of missing out on all the disturbing Conservative heckling that we have heard goes on in Parliament. If you are elected, would you put more cameras in so we can see what the Tories are really like? I would especially enjoy watching Peter Van Loan's head explode or maybe even see John Baird twitching uncontrollably and foaming at the mouth. I've heard it's something...
Scott's DiaTribes (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
A young teenage boy just died of H1N1 in Toronto, and here we have Conservative MP’s (and apparently cabinet ministers – led apparently and not surprisingly by the classless John Baird) laughing and heckling Dr. Carloyn Bennett as she tried to ask a question about H1N1 and the vaccine as it related to pregnant women. [...]
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Canada's Transport Minister John Baird and the Honourable Rob Merrifield, Minister of State (Transport) today announced the appointment of Captain Raymond Goode to the board of directors of the Pacific Pilotage Authority for a term of four years, effective November 19, 2009.
The Phantom Observer (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
Yesterday’s exchange in Question Period between John Baird and Martha Hall Findlay has created a very sharp reminder, for the Libranos, of the real price to be paid for throwing around accusations of cheating: the need to appear pure in comparison. Here’s the exchange in question: Ms. Martha Hall Findlay (Willowdale, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, [...]
A BCer in Toronto (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Many, many weeks (months, really) after the Liberal opposition began hammering on the partisan distribution by the Conservatives of stimulus funding, and many weeks after several media organizations did their own studies which largely supported the Liberal contention, we've finally started to see some organized response from the government. The response comes in a CP story today , which reports Transport...
Blacksmiths of Lebanon (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
From Marketwire , with a very big H/T to Jad over at Lebanon News: Under Rug Swept : Today the Honourable Jason Kenney, Canada's Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism, announced that the Government of Canada has taken action to improve travel options for passengers wishing to fly from Canada to Lebanon. Effective immediately, the change will allow Canadian air carriers to make...
Accidental Deliberations (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
Shorter John Baird spokesflack : It's completely unreasonable to draw conclusions about how federal stimulus money has been allocated by examining only a portion of overall spending. And we can prove it by cherry-picking an even smaller portion of overall spending.
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