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Warren Kinsella
Warren James Kinsella (born August 1960) is a Canadian lawyer, author, musician, political consultant, and Pundit (expert), commentator. Kinsella has written commentary in most of Canada's major newspapers and several magazines, including ''The Globe and Mail'', the ''Toronto Sun'', ''Ottawa Citizen'', the ''National Post,'' ''The Walrus'', and Postmedia newspapers. He appeared regularly on the Sun News Network. Kinsella is the founder of the Daisy Consulting Group, a Toronto-based firm that engages in paid political campaign strategy work, lobbying and communications crisis management. Early life and education Kinsella is the son of physician and medical ethicist Douglas Kinsella, founder of the National Council on Ethics in Human Research (NCEHR). He attended Carleton University from 1980 to 1984, earning a Bachelor of Journalism. Career In the 1980s, Kinsella was a reporter at the ''Calgary Herald'' and later the ''Ottawa Citizen''. Later, as a lawyer, Kinsella was a partn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liberal Party Of Canada
The Liberal Party of Canada (LPC; , ) is a federal political party in Canada. The party espouses the principles of liberalism,McCall, Christina; Stephen Clarkson"Liberal Party". ''The Canadian Encyclopedia''. and generally sits at the Centrism, centre to Centre-left politics, centre-left of the Politics of Canada, Canadian political spectrum, with their main rival, the Conservative Party of Canada, Conservative Party, positioned to their Right-wing politics, right and the New Democratic Party positioned to their Left-wing politics, left. The party is described as "big tent",PDF copy at UBC Press. practising "brokerage politics", attracting support from a broad spectrum of voters. The Liberal Party is the longest-serving and oldest active federal political party in the country, and has dominated th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barney & Friends
''Barney & Friends'' is an American children's television series created by Sheryl Leach targeted at children ages two to five. The flagship production of the ''Barney'' franchise, it originally aired on PBS under the PBS Kids brand from April 6, 1992 to November 2, 2010, although new videos were still released on various dates after the last episode aired. It features and stars Barney, a purple anthropomorphic ''tyrannosaurus rex'' who conveys educational messages through songs and small dance routines with a friendly, huggable and optimistic attitude. Reruns aired on Sprout from 2005 to 2015, and from December 17, 2018 to January 25, 2020 on Sprout's successor network, Universal Kids, until the latter's closure on March 6, 2025. On October 6, 2015, the series was initially renewed for revival with a new season to premiere in 2017, but that never came to fruition. A CGI-animated series aired on Cartoon Network's Cartoonito on October 18, 2024, and streamed on Max on Oct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canada AM
''Canada AM'' is a Canadian morning television news show that aired on CTV from 1972 to 2016. Its final hosts were Beverly Thomson and Marci Ien, with Jeff Hutcheson presenting the weather forecast and sports. The program aired on weekdays, and was produced from CTV's facilities at 9 Channel Nine Court in Scarborough, Toronto. In addition to CTV's local owned-and-operated stations (O&Os) in Eastern Canada as well as affiliate station CITL-DT Lloydminster, the program also aired on independent station CJON-DT (NTV) in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as CTV News Channel, the network's 24-hour national news service. The program previously aired on CTV's O&Os in Western Canada, until they launched their own all-local morning news programmes called ''CTV Morning Live'' on August 29, 2011. History CTV's first attempt at a morning show, ''Bright and Early'', launched in 1966 and was cancelled the next year; among the presenter lineup was future federal Liberal cabi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CTV Television Network
The CTV Television Network, commonly known as CTV, is a Television in Canada, Canadian English-language terrestrial television network. Launched in 1961 and acquired by BCE Inc. in 2000, CTV is Canada's largest privately owned List of Canadian television channels, television network and is now a division of the Bell Media subsidiary of BCE. It is Canada's largest privately or commercially owned network consisting of 22 owned-and-operated stations nationwide and two privately owned affiliates, and has consistently been placed as Canada's top-audience measurement, rated network in total viewers and in key demographics since 2002, after several years trailing the rival Global Television Network in key markets. Bell Media also operates additional CTV-branded properties, including the 24-hour national cable news network CTV News Channel (Canada), CTV News Channel and the secondary CTV 2 television system. There has never been an official full name corresponding to the initials "CTV ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000 Canadian Federal Election
The 2000 Canadian federal election was held on November 27, 2000, to elect members to the House of Commons of Canada of the 37th Canadian Parliament, 37th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's Liberal Party of Canada, Liberal Party won a third majority government. Since the 1997 Canadian federal election, previous election of 1997, small-c conservatives had begun attempts to merge the Reform Party of Canada and the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada as part of the United Alternative agenda. During that time, Jean Charest stepped down as leader of the Progressive Conservatives and former Prime Minister of Canada, Prime Minister Joe Clark took over the party and opposed any union with the Reform Party. In the spring of 2000, the Reform Party became the Canadian Alliance, a political party dedicated to uniting conservatives together into one party. Former Reform Party leader Preston Manning lost in Canadian Alliance leadership elect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted White (politician)
Edward Alexander White (born 18 April 1949) is a former Canadian politician who served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1993 to 2004. Born in Southampton, England, White was first elected in the British Columbia riding of North Vancouver in 1993 as a Reform Party of Canada candidate. He was re-elected in 1997 and 2000. While he was a member of parliament, Reform became known as the Canadian Alliance, then merged with the Progressive-Conservatives into the Conservative Party of Canada. White was defeated in the 2004 federal election by Liberal candidate Don Bell, therefore serving in the 35th through 37th Canadian Parliaments. In the 1983 British Columbia general election, he was a candidate for the separatist Western Canada Concept party in the North Vancouver-Seymour riding. Achievements In June 1994, White became the first MP in Canada to use electronic voting to sample the opinions of constituents. He was criticized by opponents at the time because there wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Vancouver (electoral District)
North Vancouver or Vancouver North may refer to: *North Vancouver (city), a city in British Columbia, Canada *North Vancouver (district municipality), a district municipality in British Columbia, Canada *North Vancouver (federal electoral district), a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada *North Vancouver (provincial electoral district), a provincial electoral district in British Columbia, Canada *School District 44 North Vancouver, a school board covering North Vancouver in British Columbia, Canada *North Vancouver station, a seasonal tourist railway station in North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada *Vancouver North, a former federal election district in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada See also * *North Shore (Greater Vancouver), which encompasses the city and the district as well as West Vancouver *North Vancouver School District *Vancouver (other) *Vancouver (electoral districts) {{disambig, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aline Chrétien
Aline Chrétien (; May 14, 1936 – September 12, 2020) was a Canadian academic administrator who was the wife of Canada's 20th prime minister, Jean Chrétien. She previously worked as a secretary, payroll manager, and model. In her later life, she was a trained pianist with The Royal Conservatory of Music. Early life and family Aline Chaîné was born on May 14, 1936, in Shawinigan, Quebec, the eldest child of Yvonne (Bellemar) and Albert Chaîné. Her mother was a hairdresser; her father worked at a power plant. She left school at age 16 and never attended university but took correspondence courses while working as a secretary. She was also employed as a payroll manager and did some modelling for local clothing stores. Chaîné married lawyer Jean Chrétien on September 10, 1957. They had two sons, Hubert and Michel Chrétien (adopted), and one daughter, France Chrétien Desmarais. After her husband was elected to Parliament, she taught herself English, Italian, and S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Donolo
Peter Donolo (born October 1959) is a Canadian communications and political strategist. From 1993 to 1999, he was the director of communications in the office of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien - the longest tenure of any prime ministerial communications director in Canadian history.. He previously served as communications advisor to Toronto mayor Art Eggleton (1989–91) and as director of communications in the Office of the Leader of the Opposition under Chrétien from 1991 to 1993. Donolo was in charge of communications for the Liberals’ successful 1993 election campaign, a role he repeated in their re-election in 1997. From 1999 to 2001, he served as Canada's consul general in Milan, Italy. In 2001, he served as senior vice-president of public affairs at Air Canada. Donolo is a well-known republican who has commented publicly about ending the monarchy of Canada. In a comment in the October 21, 2002, cover story of ''Maclean's'', he referred to Canada as "behaving like a colo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Defiant Reign Of Jean Chrétien
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Martin (journalist)
Lawrence Martin (born 26 July 1947 in Edinburgh, Scotland) is a Canadian journalist and the author of ten books on politics and sport. Raised in Hamilton, Ontario, he received a Bachelor of Arts in political science McMaster University in 1969 and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University in 1982. Martin first reported for '' The Hamilton Spectator''. At ''The Globe and Mail'', he began as a sports reporter in 1974, served as Washington Correspondent for ''The Globe and Mail'' from 1978 to 1981, and served as the newspaper's bureau chief in Washington, D.C., Montreal, and Moscow, where he opened ''The Globe and Mails first bureau in 1985 and reported on the Gorbachev years in power. He has been a columnist at ''The Globe and Mail'' since 2002. From 2017 to 2020, he was based in Washington, covering the Trump administration. Martin was a national affairs columnist for Southam News from 1998 to 2001. Awards and nominations * Lifetime Leadership Achievement Award � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
