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Ottawa Centre MP Naqvi says ‘no consensus’ on return-to-office issue from constituents following Treasury Board’s decree

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

• A number of Ottawa-area mayors wrote to the Treasury Board president with their major concerns that the government's back-to-office decision will have on their local economies and the environment.

Ottawa Centre MP Naqvi says ‘no consensus’ on return-to-office issue from constituents following Treasury Board’s decree

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

• A number of Ottawa-area mayors wrote to the Treasury Board president with their major concerns that the government's back-to-office decision will have on their local economies and the environment.

Federal parties face tighter privacy rules after losing ‘unprecedented’ voter data case, but appeal could delay enforcement

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Parties should ‘govern themselves’ but must better regulate nominations and voter data, says former candidate Maddeaux

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

House Foreign Affairs Committee offers no advice to reverse foreign service ‘atrophy’

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Foreign influence registry ‘more than a positive step forward,’ but not far enough, say diaspora groups

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Military revisiting beartrap necessity as feds explore Arctic ship chopper capabilities

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

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‘I made an error in judgment,’ CBSA official says of dining with ArriveCan contractors 

• BY IREM KOCA

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Senate rule change ‘tough pill to swallow’ for Conservatives, but backers say vote protects Red Chamber’s independence

• BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

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Feds ‘slow’ to act on green procurement, says environment watchdog

• BY IREM KOCA

Pro-Palestinian student protests on university campuses further complicate electoral calculus for left-of-centre parties, say Liberal MPs

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

• To protest peacefully is a constitutionally protected right, but hate speech or making someone feel unsafe is unacceptable, says Liberal MP Yasir Naqvi.

Pro-Palestinian student protests on university campuses further complicate electoral calculus for left-of-centre parties, say Liberal MPs

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

• To protest peacefully is a constitutionally protected right, but hate speech or making someone feel unsafe is unacceptable, says Liberal MP Yasir Naqvi.

Poilievre calling lobbyists ‘useless’ provides roadmap for approaching Conservatives, says GR professionals

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

Heyman issues ‘tsunami warning’ about potential Trump 2.0 effect on Canada

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Unions, experts call into question feds’ move to divest 50 per cent of property holdings while also calling for back-to-workplace policies

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

Economists, businesses question timing of capital gains tax hike as Canada faces productivity challenges

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

Former top trade negotiator Steve Verheul dives into the CUSMA stakes and the U.S. election on May 15

Podcast

Charlie Angus on politics in 2024

FeatureBY KATE MALLOY

The Hill Times’ 100 Best Books of 2023

ListBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Cabinet’s communications and chiefs of staff list, 2024

Podcast

‘Summer of discontent’: Chris Aylward on the return-to-office order for civil servants

Liberal MP Carr says it’s hard to reach voters in current media landscape, while Tory MP Rempel Garner welcomes the changes

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

• ‘There is an onus and a responsibility' for voters to 'go out and seek some of that information,’ says Liberal MP Ben Carr, but he also believes that many citizens are coming to 'rapid determinations' about issues, and those views 'are solidified very quickly.'

Liberal MP Carr says it’s hard to reach voters in current media landscape, while Tory MP Rempel Garner welcomes the changes

NewsBY IAN CAMPBELL

• ‘There is an onus and a responsibility' for voters to 'go out and seek some of that information,’ says Liberal MP Ben Carr, but he also believes that many citizens are coming to 'rapid determinations' about issues, and those views 'are solidified very quickly.'

CBSA’s access-to-information woes continue with 12,000 requests inaccessible, requestors encouraged to resubmit

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

Once a strategy, later a framework, Canada now unwilling to define Africa engagement rethink

NewsBY NEIL MOSS

The ‘jury is still out’ on the value of foreign interference inquiry following preliminary report, says national security and intelligence expert Wesley Wark

NewsBY STUART BENSON

House of Commons chaos a symptom of a past-expiry Parliament, not just Speaker’s judgment, say politicos

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Environment minister Guilbeault must show ‘courage’ to finalize plastics treaty, says NDP MP Johns

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

MPs to probe Global Affairs contracts after internal audit finds one-quarter broke the rules

NewsBY IREM KOCA

Parliamentary Calendar

Virani to talk about Online Harms Bill on Tuesday at the Empire Club of Canada

Podcast

MP Scott Reid: The House rules

feature

Housing Minister Fraser a 2023 fan favourite on Parliament Hill: All Politics Poll

List

U.S. election preoccupies Canada’s top 50 foreign influencers as feds’ focus gets pulled from Asia strategy

Podcast

Fixing family medicine, Part 2, with Dr. Kathleen Ross

Clock ticking on Senate rule change debate as government rep invokes time allocation

NewsBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

• Conservative Senate Leader Donald Plett says the motion opens ‘a Pandora’s box,’ creating the prospect of two Liberal-aligned caucuses if Conservatives form government.

Clock ticking on Senate rule change debate as government rep invokes time allocation

NewsBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

• Conservative Senate Leader Donald Plett says the motion opens ‘a Pandora’s box,’ creating the prospect of two Liberal-aligned caucuses if Conservatives form government.

Cabinet expected to decide fate of controversial Bill C-53 tomorrow, according to sources

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

If Trudeau stays, he needs one ‘last reboot’ this summer, say Liberal MPs, pollsters, and political insiders

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Disinformation campaigns having long-term impact on public trust, MPs warned

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Treasury Board, unions, leaders, experts contend with evolving federal in-office requirements

NewsBY MIKE LAPOINTE

Data privacy as a human right must be recognized by privacy and AI bill, say advocates

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

• Bill C-27 fails to mention human rights in the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act, says Tim McSorely, national coordinator of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group.

Data privacy as a human right must be recognized by privacy and AI bill, say advocates

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

• Bill C-27 fails to mention human rights in the Artificial Intelligence and Data Act, says Tim McSorely, national coordinator of the International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group.

Liberal MP Chagger steps down as chair of powerful Procedure and House Affairs Committee

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Liberal MP Chagger steps down as chair of powerful Procedure and House Affairs Committee

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Foreign interference a ‘stain’ on Canada’s electoral processes, but did not undermine 2019, 2021 elections, says Hogue

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Foreign interference a ‘stain’ on Canada’s electoral processes, but did not undermine 2019, 2021 elections, says Hogue

NewsBY STUART BENSON

Ontario Liberal MP Drouin may not run in the next election

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Ontario Liberal MP Drouin may not run in the next election

NewsBY ABBAS RANA

Politics This Morning

Politics This Morning: A tale of two press conferences

Politics This Morning: MPs kick off study on Winnipeg lab docs

Politics This Morning: MPs abroad

Politics This Morning: MPs to grill CBSA president, again

COVID-19

Finishing the fight against COVID and the ‘global race’ to the top of Mount Vaccine

Hill staffers look back on the COVID-19 pandemic from their front-row seats to history

‘We still only have a fragmented picture’: new report on COVID response finds critical institutions exposed both strengths and weaknesses in the federal system

‘May you govern in interesting times’: MPs, Senators look back on the COVID-19 pandemic and the day ‘everything changed’

Election

Foreign Interference Inquiry needs to take much closer look at nominations

Let’s improve our understanding of how we nominate candidates, and pass S-283

Public hearings provided ‘no great revelations’ for upcoming foreign interference report, says national security expert Wesley Wark

Parties have ‘free rein’ with voter data, finds report, but veteran party ops say that’s vital for democratic engagement

Politics

Sanctions do nothing to promote democracy

Comms staff on the move: new press secretaries for Champagne, Sudds

Poilievre’s notwithstanding clause gambit 

Rex Murphy: rollicking, rowdy, and uproarious

Foreign Policy

High cost for women advocating for Palestinian rights in Canada

‘Unfortunate errors’ in Global Affairs contracts were ‘administrative oversight,’ MPs hear

Fifty years after Canada’s plutonium mishap in India, is history repeating itself?

EV investments paving the way for Canada and Japan’s ‘new chapter’: ambassador

Finance and Budget

Political disconnect leaving Liberals far behind

Why digital assets will be Canada’s economic equalizer

Freeland should find a better way to achieve tax reform

The ‘soft landing’ for the economy may have to be a lot harder than usual

Lobbying

Poilievre’s clarion call to corporate Canada

Budget 2024 provides key themes for advocacy strategies in advance of anticipated election budget, says lobbyists

Beef farmers seek exemption from federal carbon price in March dominated by environment lobbying

Sponsored travel climbed back to pre-pandemic levels in 2023 as MPs accept trips to Israel, Taiwan, U.K.

Legislation

For Canada to be a global human rights leader, it needs to get its AI law right from the start

A closer look at the proposed foreign influence transparency registry

A unified front for climate equity

Bill C-29 an attack on Inuit self-determination

Public Service

Now is the workplace of our discontent

Workin’ 9 to 5, that’s no way to make a livin’

Can’t Buy My Silence on the Hill: restricting the abusive use of NDAs

Public service unions sound alarm over feds’ plan to trim bureaucracy by 5,000 jobs through ‘natural attrition’

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