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Jane Taber is a Canadian journalist and current co-host of CTV's Question Period with Craig Oliver. Taber is also the Senior Parliamentary Writer in the Globe and Mail's Ottawa bureau, since 2003. She has also worked for the Ottawa Citizen and the National Post. She has covered the Hill since 1986, working as a parliamentary reporter and columnist for The Ottawa Citizen, the National Post, and finally for the Globe. For three seasons, from 1985 to 1987, she was the host of a 30-minute long political affairs show on WTN (now W Network) called Jane Taber's Ottawa. She also co-produced an hour-long documentary on the struggles of women in politics that was broadcast during the 1997 election campaign.

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Tories tar long-gun success by 'swinging too hard' on torture

O ne week; two Tory strategies. One is a potential winner; the other could potentially backfire. What does Stephen Harper’s former top strategist think? Tom Flanagan believes the Tory bill to abolish the long-gun registry is a “political success story.” ...

From JANE TABER, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: UK Conservative Party,  Stephen Harper,  Peter MacKay,  Laurie Hawn (politician),  House of Commons

More OLO departures?

M ichael Ignatieff’s operations director, Sachin Aggarwal, is seriously considering running in Toronto Centre to replace former provincial Liberal cabinet minister George Smitherman, who is running to be Toronto mayor, according to sources. Mr. ...

From JANE TABER, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: George Smitherman,  Dalton,  Bob Rae,  Warren Kinsella

Carrying a non-partisan torch

T he morning buzz: What's making news on Parliament Hill 1. Mike Savage isn't feeling the Olympic spirit. The Olympic torch is in Nova Scotia today and it has been in the province for the past few days. But the Liberal MP from Dartmouth hasn’t seen it. ...

From JANE TABER, Globe and Mail,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Pittsburgh Penguins,  Sidney Crosby,  Scott Brison,  Charlie Angus,  Billy Bragg

A lonely joke amid talk of torture and anti-Semitism

I n a chamber humming today with tension and anger over issues involving the torture of Afghan prisons and charges of anti-Semitism, Jim Flaherty, the Finance Minister, cracked a joke. “I have not had many questions on the economy and it has been so ...

From JANE TABER, Globe and Mail,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Taliban,  Jim Flaherty,  Bob Rae,  Michael Ignatieff,  Peter MacKay

The Rat Pack is back

H ot: Marcel Proulx: the new rat packer. It’s been more than 20 years but the scrappy Liberal Rat Pack may be making a return. Remember those days in the mid-80s when John Turner was opposition leader and a group of his MPs, Sheila Copps, Don Boudria, ...

From JANE TABER, Globe and Mail,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: UK Conservative Party,  Sheila Copps,  John Turner,  Brian Tobin,  Jean Lapierre

NDP demands public inquiry on torture allegations

T he NDP is calling for a public inquiry into the torture of Afghan detainees handed over by Canadian troops. The call comes on the heels of explosive testimony yesterday by Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin who said the torture of prisoners is “standard ...

From JANE TABER, Globe and Mail,  19 Nov 2009

Torture fallout and China

T he morning buzz: What's making news on Parliament Hill 1. Lawrence Cannon defends Afghan detainee transfers. In Kabul, where he watched the inauguration of Afghan President Hami Karzai today, the Foreign Affairs Minister spoke with reporters, saying ...

From JANE TABER, Globe and Mail,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Lawrence Cannon,  Bob Rae,  Stephen Harper,  CBC

'Huffing and puffing' on torture

S eal meat is to be on the menu at the swank parliamentary restaurant and now Inuktitut is being spoken in the House of Commons. Parliament is rocking a decidedly northern theme these days. At Question Period today, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq, in ...

From JANE TABER, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: House of Commons,  Bob Rae,  Michael Ignatieff,  Peter MacKay,  Jack Layton

Canadian reporters make Indian headlines

O ur man in New Delhi, John Ibbitson, has caused a stir in the Indian news media with a question he posed to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh about nuclear technology. Travelling with Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Mr. Ibbitson asked how Canadians can ...

From JANE TABER, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: John Ibbitson,  Manmohan Singh,  Stephen Harper

Liberals get 'realistic' on gun-registry

M ichael Ignatieff is reconsidering his decision to allow his MPs to vote however they wish on private member’s bills after the fiasco of the long-gun registry vote. In caucus today, the Liberal Leader told his MPs that he is “taking under advisement” ...

From JANE TABER, Globe and Mail,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Bob Rae,  UK Conservative Party

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