Stepping into Centre Block: coming months will be key to maintaining ‘construction momentum,’ says PSPC’s Garrett
The Hill Times got an exclusive tour of the Centre Block site on Feb. 7.
String of special assistants, parliamentary affairs director join Immigration Minister Miller’s team
Plus, Families, Children, and Social Development Minister Jenna Sudds has hired a new digital communications adviser.
Iceland foreign minister to talk foreign policy, trade in Feb. 12 webinar hosted by Embassy of Iceland
MONDAY, FEB. 12 House Sitting—Parliamentarians have returned to Ottawa following six weeks in their constituencies. The House will sit until Friday, Feb. 16. The House is scheduled to sit for a total of 125 days in 2024. It will sit Jan. 29-Feb. 16, and will break for one week (Feb. 19-23). It returns for one […]
Unionized Jewish employees to take PSAC to Canadian Human Rights Tribunal over Israel-Hamas war
Plus, Cape Breton pounded with 150 cm of snow; Hill launch of Howard McCurdy’s memoir in the House Speaker’s Office on Feb. 20; Jean Augustine to deliver speech in Toronto; and Liberal MP John McKay and ISG Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne receive an award.
Diversity, Inclusion Minister Khera hires three new staffers
Plus, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly added a new aide, and Hill Climbers catches up with staffing in National Revenue Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau’s shop.
Staff changes for Treasury Board President Anand, Health Minister Holland
Updates for Health Minister Mark Holland’s office include the addition of Fatima Asghar as a junior policy adviser.
Macklem to deliver speech at Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on Tuesday, Feb. 6
MONDAY, FEB. 5 House Sitting—Parliamentarians have returned to Ottawa following six weeks in their constituencies. The House will sit until Friday, Feb. 16. The House is scheduled to sit for a total of 125 days in 2024. It will sit Jan. 29-Feb. 16, and will break for one week (Feb. 19-23). It returns for one […]
Beech, Hutchings, and Petitpas Taylor have new press secretaries on board
Recent changes in Citizens’ Services Minister Terry Beech’s office also include Ellen Galupo’s promotion to director of policy.
A look at Pablo Rodriguez’s Quebec Lieutenant team
Plus, Hill Climbers catches up with some former staffers, including Katherine Koostachin, who recently joined the Sussex Strategy Group.
Have I told you the one about Ron Wood?
Known as ‘Woody,’ Ron Wood, a former Hill reporter in the 1960s who became a top adviser to then-Reform Party leader Preston Manning, died on Jan. 17 in Calgary. His friend Jim Armour called Wood a ‘genuine character.’
