Women’s March Ottawa holding events all week, ‘Maker Monday: Art, Self-Love and Community Care Workshop’ with Lucky Little Queer on May 3
MONDAY, MAY 3 House Sitting—The House is sitting in a hybrid format during the pandemic, with most MPs connecting remotely. It’s scheduled to sit every weekday for the next few weeks, May 3-May 14. It will take a one-week break after that, from May 17-May 24. It will sit May 25 every weekday until Wednesday, […]
Heath digs deep into the institution of the permanent civil service in The Machinery of Government
The institution of the permanent civil service, I have suggested, generates significant benefits for the quality of public policy, delivery of public services, and ultimately, promotion of social welfare. It is also, one might add, an arrangement that seems objectively rather improbable. Clearly, the more natural impulse of politicians is to bring in partisans, or […]
Conservative MP Jansen under fire for comments on LGBTQ2 community
Conservative MP Tamara Jansen hasn’t had a good run recently with her comments about LGBTQ2 people. During third reading debate on Bill C-6, which seeks to ban conversion therapy, on April 16, Ms. Jansen seemed to say that it was a good thing that “lesbian activity” could be stopped with efforts to pray the gay away (through […]
Natural Resources Minister O’Regan adds policy adviser to team
Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan has a new policy adviser, with Blake Oliver recently joining his team fresh from Transport Minister Omar Alghabra’s office. Up until April 9, Ms. Oliver had been an Ontario regional affairs adviser and policy adviser, tackling transportation files on rail and road, in the transport minister’s office since March 2020, […]
Solutions to reconcile security and freedom deserve to be better known, says Maurice Cusson, author of Donner-nominated book
Since the dawn of time, crime and despotism have been a threat to security and freedom. And everywhere, people have always had to contend with criminals and despots in defence of their security and freedom. How can free people live together without one person’s freedom infringing on that of another’s and without the two conflicting […]
Ministers McKenna, Murray join MPs to talk environmental leadership at GreenPAC event
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 The Five Pillars of the Inherent Right to Self-Government—The Institute of Public Administration of Canada hosts “The Five Pillars of the Inherent Right to Self-Government,” the second part of its Rebuilding First Nations Governance Series featuring five one-hour webinars exploring the themes behind Rebuilding First Nations Governance—a community-led, multi-partner research project to […]
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de Adder’s Take: 04-26-2021
‘Social media are dysfunctional to the overall health of civil society and democracy’: Ronald Deibert, author of Donner-nominated Reset
Look at that device in your hand. No, really, take a good, long look at it. You carry it around with you wherever you go. You sleep with it, work with it, run with it, you play games on it. You depend on it, and panic when you can’t find it. It links you to […]
Bob Rae to talk about Myanmar and other global hotspots on Monday, April 26
MONDAY, APRIL 26 House Sitting—The House is sitting in a hybrid format during the pandemic, with most MPs connecting remotely. It’s scheduled to sit every weekday for the next few weeks, April 26-May 14. It will take a one-week break after that, from May 17-May 24. It will sit May 25 every weekday until Wednesday, […]
