Transport Minister Rodriguez promotes new chief of staff, policy director
Among the recent changes, director of cabinet, appointments, and parliamentary affairs Vasken Vosguian is now also deputy chief of staff to the transport minister.
‘May you govern in interesting times’: MPs, Senators look back on the COVID-19 pandemic and the day ‘everything changed’
With four years in the books since Canada’s Parliament shut down to deal with an emerging public health threat, and more than a year after the World Health Organization announced an official end to the global pandemic, Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan says no one is ‘over COVID.’
Where are they now: ex-staffers land new jobs at Humber College, Competition Bureau, and more
Plus, an update for Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan’s office.
Cohen to deliver keynote on U.S.-Canada cross border collaboration in life science and technology
MONDAY, MARCH 11 House Sitting Schedule—The House is scheduled to sit for a total of 125 days in 2024. The House is on break for two weeks (March 4-15). The House comes back again on March 18 and sits for a week until March 22. It breaks for two weeks on March 25, and returns […]
Ministers Anandasangaree, Boissonnault add new assistants
Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree has made some changes to his ministerial staff lineup of late, including recently promoting his press secretary, Matthieu Perrotin, to the added title of Quebec regional affairs adviser. Perrotin first joined Anandasangaree’s team as press secretary last November, arriving fresh from Innovation, Science, and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne’s office, where […]
Claire Seaborn readies exit from helm of Minister Wilkinson’s office
Deputy chief of staff and director of parliamentary affairs Kyle Harrietha is already lined up to take over as chief of staff to Wilkinson later this month.
This just in: Eleanor Wachtel this year’s chair of prestigious International Booker Prize jury ‘the most extraordinary book club in the world’
Plus, NDP MP Alistair MacGregor named caucus chair, Huda Mukbil joins Black Class Action Secretariat advisory board, NDP MP Daniel Blaikie says farewell to the House, Phil von Finckenstein writes for The Glebe Report, Tory MP Luc Berthold celebrates hometown newspaper, Liberal MP Irek Kusmierczyk recently joined Unifor workers on picket line at Jamieson Vitamins, and Super Tuesday comes to Ottawa.
Two staff in, one out in Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge’s shop
Plus, there are staff updates to note in Small Business Minister Rechie Valdez’s office.
Former Parliamentarians Association vows to keep lobbying for funding boost after Tories sink appeal
CAFP president and former Liberal MP Matt DeCourcey says he’s ‘disappointed, but not dissuaded’ by the lack of unanimous consent at the BOIE for a funding increase.
Staff updates for ministers MacAulay, Lebouthillier, and MacKinnon
In the Government House Leader’s office, Sarah Leclair has been hired as a senior adviser for parliamentary affairs.
