Canadian Media
Press Gallery’s Turf War
The Parliamentary Press Gallery (PPG) is the guild of Ottawa journalists that has been given the right to govern press access to Parliament Hill by the Speaker…
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31 posts tagged "Parliamentary Press Gallery".
Canadian Media
Journalist shows up at wrong event, writes juicy story for Ottawa reporters
One of the favourite narratives of the Ottawa media is that the Prime Minister doesn’t talk to them on enough occasions. This, of course lazily and unfairly…
Columns
Census change is about smaller government
I received a call today from a reporter around noon about what he conceded was “the story that just won’t go away”. He was, of course, talking about the…
Canadian Politics
Derek Lee should read stephentaylor.ca more often
He could have had a two week head-start to prepare for John Baird’s attack in the House of Commons on Thursday. I’m told Baird’s surprise response to questions…
Parliament of Canada
A sample of articles about the history of prorogation in Canada
Page 1 (Drummondville Spokesman – May 27, 1930) has a bit of a parallel to today’s prorogation. The PM wanted to set a new direction with a new budget and new…
Elections
The Seinfeldian media
The latest installment of the “will there or won’t there be an election?” drama of As the Hill Turns, the Canadian Press reports that Quebec Liberal candidates…
CBC
The press gallery won’t let old partisan attack go
From the Obama visit to Parliament Hill yesterday, the CBC’s Susan Bonner assesses what made an impression upon her and her media colleagues, “The impression…
CBC
CBC gets Obama
There are reports today that the CBC has secured a pre-visit interview from US President Barack Obama. Congratulations to the team at the public broadcaster,…
Canadian Media
I can’t hear you all over the foofaraw of Hope and Change!
From the Wall Street Journal this morning, About half-way through President Obama’s press conference Monday night, he had an unscripted question of his own.…