Archive for January, 2006
The other Iranian threat
Could Tehran’s plan to challenge the dominance of the U.S. dollar in the oil trade strike a devastating economic blow?
Hot-headed Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might be bringing the world to the brink of a nuclear weapons crisis, but right now he might be doing North America at least one really big favour. His refusal to […]
Tongsun Park. In Canada
…during a federal election. I am not making this up.
Okay, so we’re already sick of the parodies, but still… Ever since I heard that Tongsun Park had been arrested in Houston, I’ve been wondering, what the heck was this guy doing in Texas? Now I have my answer from the Houston Chronicle: Judge denies bond […]
Good-bye week from hell
This morning the Prime Minister held a press conference to announce some environment policy, $1 billion to clean up the Great Lakes / St. Lawrence River basin. It was a small, quiet affair held in a ballroom at the Fairmont QE II hotel for the convenience of us media pool folks who lodged here after […]
Election fever
Crowds have been shockingly small on my journey with the media pool following the Prime Minister. At first I thinking, maybe it’s just me. I’ve never done this federal election tour thing before and maybe it’s always like this. A bunch of supporters file in to stand on stage behind the PM, and this looks […]
“Irish poets in a dark bar”
High drama last night on the Liberal plane as we flew from Vancouver to Hamilton. Due to bad weather in the east, plans were changed slightly and a refueling stop in Calgary was added just in case we would be forced to circle or divert to another airport. No sooner had the plane come to […]
Question of the day
Robert Fife of CTV asked the question of the day this morning at the Prime Minister’s health care announcement. Everyone was scratching their heads trying to figure out the big differences between the Tory wait times guarantee and the new Liberal Canada Health Care Guarantee when Fife, sitting in the front row of the lecture […]
Stuck in the past
Well, we got ourselves a real talking at this morning, a new speech by the Prime Minister. As anticipated, it’s main feature is the difference he is trying to draw between himself and Stephen Harper.
Martin seems to be going negative by going positive at the same time, saying that Harper et al are too […]
Every man for himself
I have emerged from the steaming cocoon of the Winnipeg hotel bathroom where I had been nursing my wretched respiratory system; I managed to choke down the general issue cup of hotel room Nabob coffee. Things are looking up. In a little while I will go downstairs to try to locate my tour guides, the […]
Stood up
Such a heroic effort to get here, and now I’m being stood up. Just got a call from the Liberals telling me that they are not going to make it to Winnipeg tonight due to mechanical trouble with the plane. So here I am on the 16th floor of the Delta hotel, popping Aspirin, hacking […]
Steel rides with the… Grits
Doesn’t have the same ring to it as “Terry rides with the Tories.” This morning at 7 AM I board a plane for Winnipeg where I’ll rendevous with the Paul Martin campaign some time this evening. Yes, I am being torn away from all that is near and dear to me–my easy chair, my fireplace, […]
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