December 17, 2013 Archives

Loonie Politics 12/17/2013: Afternoon Update

• Nelson Mandela and the power of a moment -   Thomas Mulcair , Toronto Star
• Ottawa to take lead on Trans Mountain Pipeline review -   Justine Hunter & Wendy Stueck , The Globe & Mail
• Alberta finance minister disappointed in Ottawa’s refusal to explore CPP reform -   Jason Fekete & James Wood , Edmonton Journal
• Residential-school survivors to press court for access to Ontario documents -   Gloria Galloway , The Globe & Mail
• Alberta Health Services scales back ER wait-time targets: Liberals -   Keith Gerein , Edmonton Journal
• Intrigue in Caledon: CRA official forged documents to frame mayor -   Marco Chown Oved , Toronto Star
• Details lacking on Tory school announcements -   Don Braid , Calgary Herald
• Who are Canada’s 10 most-Googled politicians of 2013? -   Chris Hannay , The Globe & Mail
• Time for Kathleen Wynne to get moving on transit -   Martin Regg Cohn , Toronto Star
• Alberta Tories embracing bully tactics -   Lorne Gunter , Calgary Sun
• Rob Ford apologizes to Toronto Star reporter who threatened to sue -   CBC News
• Liberals visited by the ghosts of Chrétien’s past -   Lawrence Martin , The Globe & Mail
• Tories buttoned their lips in post-question period scrums in 2013 -   Glen McGregor , Ottawa Citizen
• Rob Ford sarcastically tells City Council he’s ‘super, super, super, super, super, super, super sorry’ for calling them corrupt -   Josh Visser and Sarah Spitz , National Post
• Finance ministers make right call on big CPP -   Terence Corcoran , Financial Post

Loonie Politics 12/17/2013: Morning Edition

• Rob Ford and his critics agree, the Toronto mayor is a bastion of conservatism. Except that isn’t true all all -   Andrew Coyne , National Post
• Canada Pension Plan reform stalls without Ottawa’s support -   CBC News
• Conservatives watching their public opinion numbers -   Bea Vongdouangchanh , The Hill Times
• How the three principal Canada Pension Plan enrichment proposals would work -   The Canadian Press , Macleans
• If Flaherty won’t, Kenney must -   Matt Gurney , National Post
• Dale goes ahead with libel suit after deadline for apology from Ford passes -   Ann Hui , The Globe & Mail
• Paillé and the Bloc Québécois -   Eric Grenier , ThreeHundredEight.com
• Vancouver right-wing councillors really wish deputy mayor’s trip to Sochi was taxpayer funded -   Brian Hutchison , National Post
• StatsCan error could cost Manitoba $500M, province says -   CBC News
• Commons committee meets Wednesday to consider Canada Post discussion -   Andrea Hill , Vancouver Sun
• Ontario to allow wine sales at farmers markets -   Robert Benzie , Toronto Star
• Tories speaking out as PMO loses credibility, ministers become potential leadership rivals -   John Ivison , National Post
• Alberta to request another $500-million or more in flood relief from Ottawa -   Bill Curry , The Globe & Mail
• Premier Redford heading to India in new year to attend largest oil and gas show -   The Canadian Press , Calgary Herald
• Conservatives won’t say if Reform Act will be free vote -   Abbas Rana , The Hill Times
• Ontario ready to go it alone on pensions as provinces accuse Flaherty of blocking CPP reform -   Gorden Isfeld , Financial Post
• Ailing Bloc Québécois in need of a saviour -   Chantal Hébert , Toronto Star
• Marois wants feds to reach cheese deal before legislature adopts Canada-EU free trade -   Michel Dolbec, The Canadian Press , Winnipeg Free Press
• Canadian disaster assistance team being pulled out of the Philippines -   The Canadian Press , Macleans
• Kinder Morgan files National Energy Board application for pipeline expansion -   Dene Moore , Calgary Herald
• Judges showing contempt by not imposing victim fine, Justice Minister says -   Sean Fine , The Globe & Mail
• Free dental care coming for more low-income Ontario kids -   Laurie Monsebraaten , Toronto Star
• No deal on CPP reform as provinces decry Ottawa’s ‘stall tactics’ -   Bill Curry , The Globe & Mail
• Moore-mania misses mark -   Editorial , Toronto Sun
• Manitoba government gets inquiry report into child’s death, but not yet public -   The Canadian Press , Winnipeg Free Press
• Conservatives fundraising on Throne Speech’s ‘seizing Canada’s moment,’ opposition MPs slam move -   Tim Naumetz , The Hill Times
• Is it my job to feed my neighbour’s children? Yes, minister, it is -   Paula Simons , Edmonton Journal
• Rail traffic set to resume in Lac-Megantic on Wednesday -   The Canadian Press , Vancouver Sun
• After sinking $20-million into Soviet car ferry, Newfoundland sells ‘rust bucket’ for just $76,000 -   Tristin Hopper , National Post
• James Moore is sorry -   Aaron Wherry , Macleans

Washington 12/17/2013

• Obama’s 2013: A very tough year -   Julian Zelizer , CNN
• President Obama’s Remarkable And Damaging Confession About Government -   William Bennett & Christopher Beach , Forbes
• Politics Trumped Policy, Truth for Obama’s Reelect -   Ron Fournier , National Journal
• Five Ways Republicans Screwed Up in 2013 (According to a Conservative) -   Benjamin Brophy , The New Republic
• Budget deal shows the GOP has PTSD -   Marc A. Thiessen , Washington Post
• Climate change expert’s fraud was ‘crime of massive proportion,’ say feds -   Michael Isikoff , NBC News
• After Obama’s ‘Lie of the Year’ more spin -   Marc Caputo , Miami Herald
• On budget deal, all eyes turn to Senate Republicans -   Rebecca Kaplan , CBS News