Ambrose hires veteran Tory staffer Austin as chief of staff

Jeffrey Richardson also joins Public Works Minister Rona Ambrose's office, while Rudy Husny joins International Trade Minister Ed Fast's office.

Anderson, Senay join OLO as communications, media directors

Former Ottawa city councilor Alex Cullen joins NDP MP Mike Sullivan's office.

Lease negotiations, missing furniture, unsafe structures: MPs still setting up constit offices

New MPs are settled into their Parliament Hill offices, but moving into their constituency offices is a different story.

Natural Resources Minister Oliver hires a new policy adviser

NDP still hiring staffers in MPs' offices and in OLO.

Human Resources Minister Finley hires press secretary

Alyson Queen starts new gig with Human Resources Minister Diane Finley.

Green Leader May brings a splash of Green on Hill and hires staffers, recruits team of interns

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has an office budget of $315,000. She plans to turn her office into 'a hotbed of activism' on the Hill.

Associate Minister of Defence Fantino hires new director of communications

And Public Safety Minister Vic Toews' deputy director of communications moves up to become Julian Fantino's director of communications.

Desai returns to Hill as International Cooperation Minister Oda's chief

Neil Desai returns from U of T's Munk School of Global Affairs.

PMO director of policy leaving to teach at Carleton

Paul Wilson joins Carleton University's political management graduate program, Andrew Scheer hires Kenzie Potter, and Alykhan Velshi is blogging 'ethical oil.'

Conservatives, NDP put Quebecers in senior staffing positions

'The Prime Minister is sending a signal that he's serious about growing and building in Quebec,' says Dan Robertson about Martin Bélanger, his replacement as head of the Conservative Resource Group.

Cabinet ministers hiring staffers, NDP MPs still hiring staffers, Liberal Leader's Office down to about 20, and Bloc keeps three

Jeremy Broadhurst named interim chief of staff to interim Liberal Leader Bob Rea.

Privileges working for Harper? Huge. Sacrifices? Also huge

Dimitri Soudas, who announced last week he will step down as the PM's director of communications in September, said he'll actually miss the media.

PMO staffers move into chiefs of staff jobs

Bill Hawkins, Frédérik Boisvert, Mélisa Leclerc and Marc-André Plouffe are new chiefs of staff.

Velshi slips out of Kenney's office for not-for-profit sector

Celyeste Power takes over as D-Comms in Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's office.

NDP prepares to hire staff, could look to provincial parties in Manitoba, Nova Scotia, British Columbia and Saskatchewan for help

Based on the latest budget formula, it appears the NDP Leader's Office will receive $4,041,444 a year, which is more than twice its former $1,475,571 allocation.

More than 100 MPs defeated, hundreds more political staffers lose Hill and riding jobs

'There's no good way or happy way to do this. You just have to leave. It's not fun,' says Grit staffer Richard Leger.

Ministerial staffers' salaries, separation pay to increase under new office policies

Exempt staff to ministers and ministers of state have all had their maximum potential salaries increase from between $5,651 and $16,957, depending on the position. These changes came into effect April 1.

Parliament Hill staffers out on election campaign trail too

Political staffers do it because their jobs and livelihoods are on the line and they believe in the cause.

Finley's former press secretary promoted to be Ambrose's director of communications

Paradis aide involved in political interference with ATI requests has left minister's office