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Showing posts with label senate reform. Show all posts
Showing posts with label senate reform. Show all posts
27 July 2015

Smoke, mirrors, and Harper’s senate moratorium #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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Heading into an election and with the three major federal parties within five or six points of each other in the opinion polls, the Prime Mi...
15 June 2015

Brad Wall's case for abolishing Premiers #cdnpoli #nlpoli

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Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall thinks that making the senate an elected institution that better reflects Canadians is too hard. Rather th...
06 January 2012

So much for senate reform #nlpoli #cdnpoli

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Surely to mercy, if Prime Minister Stephen Harper was halfway serious about senate reform he could find someone else from Newfoundland and L...
29 January 2010

And the cliche gets it…

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Senator Beth Marshall. Here’s the view from January 19: Beth Marshall would be too obvious just because all the spec puts her name u...
19 January 2010

Every name in for the senator pool

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A couple of e-mails in ye olde inbox on Monday and just about every conceivable name cropped up in the great game of trying to figure out wh...
09 January 2010

Jeff, the SCC and senate reform

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Canada’s Ersatz George Will should learn to do that or at least take his own advice. Jeff Simpson implores – presumably the prime minister...
07 January 2010

Senate reform, again

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One glaring point the Globe and Mail front pager on senate reform missed is blatantly obvious. The Globe claimed that: Analysts say...
31 December 2009

New Year’s Contest: name the new NL senator

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So parliament will start anew in the New Year and all the empty seats in the senate will have new bums to fill them. Who do you think will...
22 December 2008

18 more appointed to Antechamber to the Kingdom of Heaven

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So much for senate reform. Sure the federal Conservatives said they wouldn’t do it, but what else is new? Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and ...
01 December 2007

The "I"s have it: Danny Williams on senate reform

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Senate reform was one of the issues discussed during a 45 minute meeting between Prime minister Stephen harper and Premier Danny Williams in...
05 June 2007

Provinces lining up against senate reform package

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The Globe and Mail is following up on a story reported on the weekend by Canadian Press that the provincial premiers are raising objection...
13 May 2007

Adding seats to Commons, feds should reform senate too

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Proposed changes to representation in the House of Commons will more fairly represent Canadians across the country, irrespective of where th...