Jun 30 2022 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Cattlemen’s campaign appears to have changed Health Canada’s plans. Ottawa–A campaign by beef and pork groups against a proposed federal health warning label has paid off with the government’s announcement in late June that those products will be exempt when labels come into effect in 2026. The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA), which led a concerted […]
Jun 30 2022 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — In recent days on Art’s History, we have marked the wedding anniversaries of PM Justin Trudeau and his wife Sophie, and that of former PM Brian Mulroney and his life partner Mila. Today, it is a great personal and professional pleasure to send out anniversary congratulations to our 16th PM, Joe Clark, and his wife […]
Jun 29 2022 — Erica Rayment and Melanee Thomas — National Newswatch — Remote participation can make parliament more inclusive. After two years of pandemic-enforced remote work, many workplaces across Canada are determining the ideal balance between in-person and remote work. Parliament must do the same. When the House of Commons rose for the summer, Canada’s Members of Parliament lost the option to participate virtually in a […]
Jun 29 2022 — Eric Blais — National Newswatch — Jenni Byrne, the political strategist, former advisor to Stephen Harper, former Principal Secretary to Doug Ford, former girlfriend of Pierre Poilievre (according to her Wikipedia profile), and now one of the advisors helping him become Canada’s next PM, once referred to Maxime Bernier’s supporters as “radically normal” folks on Amanda Galbraith’s Political Traction podcast. As […]
Jun 29 2022 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Change aimed to helping farmers cope with rising expenses. Ottawa–The interest-free portion of the Advance Payments Program (APP) will rise to $250,000 from the current $100,000 for the 2022 and 2023 crop years to give producers some additional cash flow to deal with higher costs, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has announced. She said the […]
Jun 29 2022 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — The Right Honourable Arthur Meighen assumed office on this date in 1926 after Mackenzie King, in an unprecedented and (thankfully) never replicated move by a Prime Minister, resigned as PM and left the Crown with no government. With no Prime Minister to advise him, Governor General Lord Byng invited Meighen, who had previously served as […]
Jun 28 2022 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — The consultation will take a wide-ranging look at the problem. Ottawa—Agriculture Canada has launched a three month long online cross-country consultation looking for ideas for creating a National Agriculture Labour Strategy (NALS) to fix the agrifood sector’s chronic labour shortages. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau in Blainville, Que. co-announced the start of the consultation with […]
Jun 28 2022 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — It is a very big anniversary day in the proud history of Canadian-American relations. On this date in 1959, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower, Prime Minister John Diefenbaker and Her Majesty the Queen were all on hand for the official opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway, perhaps the greatest infrastructure project ever undertaken by the two […]
Jun 28 2022 — Glen Pearson — National Newswatch — American political analyst Michael Podhorzer laid out a frightening scenario last week in a newsletter penned for activists. He suggests that the time might have arrived when the United States is not one country but two nations that happen to share the same geography. Ronald Brownstein, the senior writer for the Atlantic, wrote about Podhorzer’s […]
Jun 27 2022 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and his Secretary of State for External Affairs, Lester B. Pearson, were in London on this date in 1956 for meetings with British Prime Minister Anthony Eden and other Commonwealth leaders. Writing almost 20 years later in his memoirs, Mike, Pearson reflected on the meeting and the depressive moods he […]
Jun 26 2022 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — Today on Art’s History we pause to honour two of our underrated Prime Ministers, Sir Robert Borden and R.B. Bennett. First, the happy anniversary. It is, of course, Sir Robert’s birthday so I know all my readers will join me in sending him birthday greetings as he celebrates his big day in the great House […]
Jun 25 2022 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — It is a big day on the political history calendar, particularly for all my Liberal friends. It was, of course, on this date in 1968 that the Pierre Elliott Trudeau era began, when Canadians gave the new and stylish Liberal Leader a majority mandate. The widepsread excitement generated by the charismatic Trudeau came to be […]
Jun 24 2022 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — It is a monumental anniversary to celebrate today on Art’s History as our national anthem, O Canada, debuted on this date in 1880, in Quebec. The Department of Canadian Heritage has placed on-line a detailed history of O Canada. “The first performance took place on June 24, 1880, at a banquet in the Pavillon des […]
Jun 23 2022 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Help Third World farmers adopt conservation agriculture. Ottawa—Canada needs to increase its aid to countries struggling with soaring food prices and also help their farmers produce more food, says Paul Hagerman, Director of Public Policy with the Canadian Foodgrains Bank (CFB). Canada does contribute through an international treaty called the Food Assistance Convention but […]
Jun 23 2022 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — Today is a big day on the calendar for both Liberals and Tories to celebrate. It was, of course, on this date in 1990, in Calgary, that Jean Chrétien was elected national Liberal leader at a good old-fashioned delegated convention (ones I often wish would return to our politics). Chrétien, Canada’s 20th prime minister, went […]