Canadian Media
Press shuts down blogger
A couple of weeks ago, I headed down the street to Parliament Hill to cover the budget for my blog and for Blogging Tories. You can see the product of that…
Tag: Budget
33 posts tagged "Budget".
Economy and Budget
Stakeholder budget interviews (videos)
On budget day, “stakeholders” gathered in the Railway room of Parliament for interviews and to give their reaction to the budget to the pool feed for the…
Gilles Duceppe
Gilles Duceppe reacts to the budget
I interviewed Bloc leader Gilles Duceppe on his reaction to the federal budget and why he chose to support it. I also ask about the PQ’s assertion that it…
Jack Layton
Jack Layton reacts to the budget
I captured the following footage of NDP leader Jack Layton outside of the House of Commons after the budget was tabled. He was the first opposition leader to…
Economy and Budget
Pre-budget interviews
On budget day yesterday, I took the camera to the Hill and spoke with a few people concerning their expectations for the budget. Gord Brown, CPC MP…
Conservative Party of Canada
Budget today
I arrived back in Ottawa this past afternoon exhausted from attending the much talked-about Conservative Party boot camp in Toronto. Of course, I won’t unleash…
Economy and Budget
Political literacy
I almost let this story slip by: OTTAWA–Literacy — it’s all about reading, writing and getting your story straight. Or so it seemed this week in Ottawa. On…
Economy and Budget
The budget and students
In a post about a week ago on the various reactions to the government’s 2006 budget “Focusing on Priorities”, I featured the following three quotations from…
Economy and Budget
The Budget, the reactions
“The bottom line for average taxpayers is a net benefit in 2006 and larger tax savings in 2007. Yet the federal governments lowest personal income tax rate…