National Newswatch

Jul 24 2021 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — Canadian federal politics became much more inclusive on this date in 1984. For the first time during a general election campaign, party leaders participated in a full French-language nationally-televised debate. It featured then Prime Minister John Turner for the Liberal Party, Ed Broadbent of the NDP, and Brian Mulroney of the Progressive Conservatives. Two days […]

Jul 23 2021 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Prospects for the rest of the year look good. Ottawa—The strong start the St. Lawrence Seaway got off to this spring has continued but grain shipments are no longer dominating the results. To the end of June shipments through the waterway were up 8.37 per cent over 2020 results. While grain is still the biggest […]

Jul 23 2021 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — Today is a very important day in the life of career of one of the most important political advisors in modern Canadian political history. It was, on this date in 1981, that Tom Axworthy was appointed by then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as the 15th Prime Minister’s principal secretary. Axworthy replaced another legendary figure from PMO […]

Jul 23 2021 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — Today is a very important day in the life of career of one of the most important political advisors in modern Canadian political history.  It was, on this date in 1981, that Tom Axworthy was appointed by then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau as the 15th Prime Minister’s principal secretary.  Axworthy replaced another legendary figure from PMO […]

Jul 22 2021 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Ottawa—A food industry alliance is reaching out to the rest of the sector to participate in developing a Grocer Code of Conduct on how the large grocery store chains treat their suppliers, says Kathleen Sullivan, CEO of Food and Beverage Canada (FBC). The country’s agriculture ministers agreed at a mid-July meeting to request the food […]

Jul 22 2021 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — No difficulty in picking today’s political history anniversary! It was on this date in 1950 that William Lyon Mackenzie King passed into history at his beloved Kingsmere estate, just twenty minutes or so north of Ottawa. Canada’s longest-serving, and many say greatest, Prime Minister was 75. All told, Mr. King served six terms as Prime […]

Jul 22 2021 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — No difficulty in picking today’s political history anniversary!  It was on this date in 1950 that William Lyon Mackenzie King passed into history at his beloved Kingsmere estate, just twenty minutes or so north of Ottawa.  Canada’s longest-serving, and many say greatest, Prime Minister was 75. All told, Mr. King served six terms as Prime […]

Jul 21 2021 — Karen Proud — National Newswatch — It is easy to understand why we may take our country’s food security and position as a leader in agricultural exports for granted. Through decades of urbanization, Canadians have become removed from the people who grow and help put food on our tables. Many are unaware of the impact Canadian farmers have on where our […]

Jul 21 2021 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Finance promises consultations on Income Tax amendments.   Ottawa-Legislation easing transfers of farms and small businesses to family members is the law of the land and the Finance Department will conduct consultations on related amendments to the Income Tax Act in the coming months. The Commons finance committee spent four hours July 20 questioning Parliamentary […]

Jul 21 2021 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — It was on this date in 1958 that Canadian parliamentarians first heard directly from an African leader. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, who led Ghana to independence from the United Kingdom the year before, delivered an address to a joint-session of our Parliament.

Jul 21 2021 — Arthur Milnes — National Newswatch — It was on this date in 1958 that Canadian parliamentarians first heard directly from an African leader. Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, who led Ghana to independence from the United Kingdom the year before, delivered an address to a joint-session of our Parliament. Two years later, in 1960, he would be elected President of Ghana. Nkrumah, […]

Jul 21 2021 — Glen Pearson — National Newswatch — It’s the war few wish to talk about or summon from their memory.  One American general last week called it a “heartbreaking failure.” The war in Afghanistan was Canada’s longest and perhaps the most misunderstood.  For a time, it seized Parliament in Ottawa, brought the grief of losing loved ones directly to Canadian households, and […]

Jul 21 2021 — Stephen Skyvington — National Newswatch — Walter Cronkite, who was referred to as “the most trusted man in America” during the twenty years he anchored the CBS Evening News, once said, “America’s health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system.” He was right when he made that comment and he’d be right if he said the same thing today. […]

Jul 20 2021 — Alex Binkley — National Newswatch — Final format of the Code not likely until late 2022.   Ottawa—The federal and provincial agriculture ministers have handed resolution of the dispute involving product fees charged by the largest grocery store chains to a special committee established by the food sector. Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says during a virtual ministers meeting in mid-June it […]

Jul 20 2021 — Stephen Skyvington — National Newswatch — In 1948, Paul Martin Sr., in his role as federal minister of national health and welfare for the Mackenzie King government, announced a number of grants that were intended to help the provinces deal with a variety of health care issues, including public and mental health; the treatment of cancer, tuberculosis, and venereal disease; and […]