Articles tagged with: Conservative
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‘One of Canada’s top five political minds,’ the conservative commentator Gerry Nicholls, former vice president of the National Citizen’s Coalition, talks to Joseph Planta about Stephen Harper, the Harper government, conservatism in Canada, and the Libertas Post, which Nicholls is editing.
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Nelson Wiseman, an associate professor in the Political Science department at the University of Toronto talks to Joseph Planta about the current federal election campaign, and what to expect at this week’s leaders debates.
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Conservative political analyst and operative, editor and CEO of grandcentralpolitical.com Rachel Marsden talks to Joseph Planta about the economic crisis, the presidential and upcoming vice presidential debates, as well as the Canadian political campaign.
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Tom Zytaruk, a staff reporter at the Now newspaper in Surrey talks to Joseph Planta about his new book, Like a Rock: The Chuck Cadman Story (Harbour, 2008), and the controversy that’s ensued with regards to the insurance policy the Conservative Party offered to the late Surrey North MP who died of cancer in 2005.
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Author and Toronto Star columnist Richard Gwyn talks to Joseph Planta about his biography of Canada’s first prime minister, John A: The Man Who Made Us (Random House, 2007).
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Tom Flanagan talks to Joseph Planta about his new book Harper’s Team: Behind the Scenes in the Conservative Rise to Power (McGill-Queen’s, 2007), and the central role he played in Stephen Harper’s political campaigns.
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Conservative Senator Hugh Segal recently spoke with Joseph Planta about current political affairs and his new book, The Long Road Back: The Conservative Journey, 1993-2006 (HarperCollins, 2006), an informed book on conservatism in Canada, and the renewed party and its players.
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Full Circle: Death and Resurrection in Canadian Conservative Politics (Key Porter, 2006) is a new book by conservative insider and public policy specialist, Bob Plamondon. Recently, he talked with Joseph Planta about the book, that for the first time sets forth a definitive account of the events that lead to the rebirth of the Conservative Party of Canada. He discussed the players involved, Stephen Harper, Peter MacKay, Preston Manning, Joe Clark, Belinda Stronach, and Brian Mulroney.
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Michael Adams, president of Envronics, talked with Joseph Planta about his new book, American Backlash: The Untold Story of Social Change in the United States (Viking, 2005). As a pollster, he offered his thoughts on the current federal election campaign in Canada, and the substance of his book, the direction of America, politically and culturally.
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Journalist and author Adam Daifallah, co-author of Rescuing Canada’s Right: Blueprint for a Conservative Revolution, talked with Joseph Planta about the conservative revolution in Canada and how it’s going, offering his thoughts on what right-minded people should do.