Friday, May 24, 2013
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HILL CLIMBERS
Hundreds of Hillites gather to remember Laguë

And two former Hill staffers win seats in New Brunswick election, Brian Macdonald and Wes McLean.


  
PM hires Bay Street star Nigel Wright as next chief of staff

Defence Minister Peter MacKay hires new press secretary Joshua Zanin, and promotes Jay Paxton as director of communications.


  
PM tweaks issues management team in PMO

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's restructuring is an example of a tactical pre-season move to bring in fresh blood and move others where they might be more critical


  
PMO hires a new communications staffer, Liberal MP Fry hires new staffer too

Sarah Levesque, a former senior special assistant in Citizenship and Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's office has joined the PMO as a communications officer.


  
Storeshaw leaves Hill for private sector, Pothier promoted to comms director

Mike Winterburn has reappeared as a PMO speechwriter.


  
Cabinet shuffle shakes up staffing changes, Yeomans stays at INAC, Potter moves to Transport

'The jobs of ministerial staff can evaporate overnight should their minister be shuffled out of the Cabinet or lose their seat in a federal election or by-election,' writes Liane Benoit


  
Baird hires his former comms director, Keller

Conservative Resource Group hires Robertson to replace Keller


  
Rempel joins PMO as adviser, Hilton leaves Hill

Conservative Senator Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu hires a former airport criminal analyst for Hill office


  
Desai quits PMO, Dholandas joins it as a new communications strategist in PMO

And former Miss India Worldwide Melissa Bhagat joins Immigration Minister Jason Kenney's Ottawa office.


  
Ignatieff shuffles deck in OLO communications department

Former PMO staffer Jason Plotz joins Sun Media's Parliament Hill bureau as a media monitor.


  
Kenney's point man on multiculturalism leaving

  
Immigration Minister Kenney loses chief of staff

Agop Evereklian to run under Tory banner in Pierrefonds-Dollard, Que., in next election.


  
Number of staffers leave PMO: Election call? Burned out? Just moving on?

Finance Minister Jim Flaherty's chief of staff Derek Vanstone is taking over as deputy chief of staff in the PMO.


  
House Speaker's party-planning pro Carricato leaves his gig to be Speaker's speechwriter

And Chris Froggatt, Dave Penner, and Dan Dugas leave their jobs.


  
PMO reaching out to ethnic media

The Prime Minister's Office has strategically placed communications officers in Vancouver, Montreal and Toronto.


  
Senator's retirement signals 'end of an era'

  
Life slows for MP-less staffers after Wasylycia-Leis resigns

Plus, Conservative MP Deepak Obhrai hires some linguistic help.


  
NDP's Saab hired as lobbyist by Federation of Canadian Municipalities

Meanwhile, former status of women minister Helena Guergis's ministerial staff remain in purgatory, while constituency staffers undisturbed.


  
A disenchanted former Reformer is executive director of Greens

And former CBC TV host Ralph Benmergui is crafting Green party message in Toronto.


  

HILL LIFE & PEOPLE SLIDESHOWS
Party Central: Raising money, saying thanks to the troops with Party Under the Stars May 21, 2013

The Hill Times photo by Jessica Bruno.
Hill Staffer Cheri Elliott founded her charity, To the Stan and Back, to raise money for soldiers returning from Afghanistan.
The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright.
Conservative MP and veteran fighter pilot Laurie Hawn and then-chief of defence staff General Walt Natynczyk at the 2011 party.
The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright.
Tory MPs Chris Alexander, Candice Bergen and Bob Dechert.
The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright.
Kenzie Potter, chief of staff to House Speaker Andrew Scheer.
The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay pictured at the 2011 party.

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