The place of Newfoundland’s David Cochrane as one of the most important Canadian political reporters of his generation was cemented on this date in 2016. Cochrane, who first made his mark covering politics for 20 years in his home province, was named host of CBC’s Power and Politics. He had been serving in the public broadcaster’s Parliament Hill bureau since 2016 and played an important role covering the 2019 and 2021 federal elections.
“Political reporting is at the heart of public broadcasting,” Cochrane said upon taking up his new duties at Power and Politics. “I’ve watched and appeared on this show since its original incarnation as Politics with Don Newman and all the incredible hosts since then. It’s an absolute honour to be asked to take the host chair at this time and build on that legacy.”
Cochrane remains in this important post today and is respected by partisans of all stripes, viewers and his fellow journalists as he continues to cover national politics from Ottawa.
Arthur Milnes is an accomplished public historian and award-winning journalist. He was research assistant on The Rt. Hon. Brian Mulroney’s best-selling Memoirs and also served as a speechwriter to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and as a Fellow of the Queen’s Centre for the Study of Democracy under the leadership of Tom Axworthy. A resident of Kingston, Ontario, Milnes serves as the in-house historian at the 175 year-old Frontenac Club Hotel.