Filomena Tassi and Helena Jaczek swapped roles in a small cabinet shuffle on Aug. 31, with Jaczek moving into the large procurement portfolio and Tassi taking over responsibility for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Trudeau shuffles two ministers, swapping Tassi out of procurement for Jaczek
Filomena Tassi's new role is minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, while Helena Jaczek is the new minister of public services and procurement.
‘Inconceivable’ the Liberals have not eliminated archaic, discriminatory ‘gold digger’ clauses from survivor pensions for veterans, say advocates
Veterans advocates express frustration at the Liberal government's failure to fulfill a 2015 election promise.Some MPs hope for more transparency on Canada’s military response to invasion of Ukraine
Green MP Elizabeth May says the government should be forthright if it is deploying special forces on the ground in Ukraine. Pressure on for feds, Canadian mining industry to take advantage of ‘game changer’ U.S. Inflation Reduction Act
With many mining locations located in rural and remote communities, experts say investments need to be made to ensure these places are accessible for people, equipment, and machinery.‘They’ve made a real mess’: north, south Ontario MPs upset over proposed riding redraw
As MPs in the north are organizing a co-ordinated push back against the proposed loss of a seat in the region, MPs in the south are expressing alarm over suggested boundary shifts. Diversity Minister Hussen will be judged based on result of review into CMAC funding, says Jewish advocacy group
The Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs wants new protocols introduced at Heritage Canada to help ensure future funding is not awarded to anti-Semitic organizations.Politicos question why Liberals are holding their fire against Poilievre
Liberal MP Michael Coteau says he has already spoken to constituents about Pierre Poilievre’s ‘divisive rhetoric,’ and tells them that Poilievre doesn't propose any solutions to the problems he’s highlighting.Federal departments eyeing mid-September return to office, but unions pushing back
With many employees working well remotely for more than two and a half years because of the COVID-19 pandemic, federal public service union leaders are wary of some of the government's back-to-office plans.Veterans Affairs Minister MacAulay down a director
Plus, there are new staff to report for Infrastructure and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc and Mental Health and Addictions Minister Carolyn Bennett. All hands on deck to get out the vote in the Conservative leadership election
As of Aug. 26, more than 326,000 Conservative Party members had already cast their votes in the leadership election, according to Yaroslav Baran, a party spokesman.Filomena Tassi and Helena Jaczek swapped roles in a small cabinet shuffle on Aug. 31, with Jaczek moving into the large procurement portfolio and Tassi taking over responsibility for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Trudeau shuffles two ministers, swapping Tassi out of procurement for Jaczek
Filomena Tassi's new role is minister responsible for the Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario, while Helena Jaczek is the new minister of public services and procurement.
Michael Chong should reconsider his crusade for reform: Copps
The veteran MP from Wellington-Halton Hills is touting a trio of reforms that he claims will take power away from the prime minister and give it to members of Parliament.How Conservatives should approach their back-to-Parliament strategy
Some advice for the new Opposition Leader's Office to start the fall session strong when the House reconvenes on Sept. 19, from a former OLO operative. What are people buying into with Poilievre?
Populist rhetoric exalts the importance of average people, but in reality, works to entrench the advantages of the well-connected and the rich.
What does ‘Canadian’ mean when we’re talking film?
We need a fair way to determine which productions should be considered Canadian, and the current 10-point system isn’t only flawed, it’s exclusionary.Bloc on full offensive over Liberal challenges to Bill 96, as feds keep eye on implementation
Bloc MP Denis Trudel recently accused the Liberals of already working to dismantle the controversial language law through the government's proposed reforms to the Official Languages Act. Can we set aside ‘Group Think’ long enough to fix environmental assessment in Canada?
The Liberals have kept the environmental laws that were gutted by the last Conservative government, and the 2019 Impact Assessment Act does nothing to make things better.
Global crises cannot be resolved until the entire world comes together
Taiwan is more than willing and able to be part of joint solutions. And the 23.5 million resilient Taiwanese people surely should not be excluded from such important global efforts.Russia and Ukraine locked in a battle of attrition
Like two punch-drunk heavyweight boxers, under the current pattern of battlefield attrition, neither Russia nor Ukraine has the capacity to land a knockout blow on their opponent. MP Oliphant the right choice to lead Canada’s new Africa strategy
Liberal MP Rob Oliphant should resist pressures to keep treating Africa either as a charity case or as a tool for Canada’s monetary and geo-political goals.
Privatization is no silver bullet to address health-care crisis, say advocacy organizations
Advocacy organizations want Ottawa to consider other options to address health-care staffing shortages, as some provincial premiers hint at wanting more privatization.Ontario highway project and federal conservation targets prominent in July environment lobbying
Environmental advocacy led lobbying activity for the sixth consecutive month.Higher federal target needed to curtail fertilizer emissions, says environmental organization
Greenpeace Canada is calling on Ottawa to increase its target of reducing fertilizer emissions by 30 per cent below 2020 levels by 2030, up to 50 per cent.
Proudfoot finds new home at The Globe
Plus, Ottawa mayoral candidate Mark Sutcliffe names campaign co-chairs, and the prime minister announces changes in the public service.
How Swede it is: Swedish ambassador exalts hall-bound Alfie
Pizza and the halv special were on the menu as the hockey jersey-wearing attendees celebrated Daniel Alfredsson's selection into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
Winnipeg Free Press’ Dylan Robertson, CBC’s David Fraser to join The Canadian Press
Plus, Leigh Chapman has been named Canada's chief nursing officer, and the prime minister, NDP's Leah Gazan condemn ongoing online attacks on female journalists.
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos adds to policy team
Plus, Hill Climbers catches up with some former staffers, including Axel Rioux, who recently exited the Conservative official opposition leader’s office.Schulte withdraws from mayoral race to focus on cancer care
Plus, tributes pour in following the deaths of former journalist Rosemary Speirs and former senator Mabel DeWare.Collective action needed to confront authoritarian regimes, says departing Taiwanese envoy
In a wide-ranging interview, Taiwanese envoy Winston Wen-yi Chen talks tensions with China, Canada's Indo-Pacific strategy, international trade, and parliamentary trips. 
In time of transition, Canada-U.K. ties are stronger than ever
Along with the U.K., Canada is the only other country that is a member of the Five Eyes, the Commonwealth, NATO, and the G7. We are driving forward a network of liberty across the world.
Advocates, politicos urge feds to lead on ending ‘appalling practice’ of immigrant detention in provincial jails
Liberal Bill C-20 'step in the right direction' for transparency and accountability, but failure to track children separated from parents at the border 'disappointing,' says NDP immigration critic Jenny Kwan.
Canada’s National Adaptation Strategy will be too little, too late without action now
The risk of not acting to limit extreme weather risk, when the answers are in hand, is akin to ignoring holes in the roof when the near-term forecast calls for sunny skies.
India looks to quickly wrap draft of interim trade deal with Canada, as both sides discuss additional early pact
Canada and India hope to reach an Early Progress Trade Agreement by the end of this year to pave the path towards a Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement. Ford helps undermine Ontario’s public health system, then eyes more privatization
Years of underspending by the province at a time of increasing immigration and an aging population have fuelled a race to the bottom in Ontario’s public health.
The definitive history of Canada’s role on the United Nations Security Council
The first definitive history of Canada's time on the UN Security Council is a must read for anyone interested in Canadian foreign policy.
Harold Johnson’s book Peace and Good Order is among five shortlisted books for this year's Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing. 
'I kind of just go ahead and do what I feel I should do, and get myself into situations where I’m thinking, "Oh, everybody here knows more than I do. But anyway, here goes." It served me very well,' says former Supreme Court chief justice Beverley McLachlin.
Patterns of interference, intimidation, and harassment of individual Canadians by the Chinese Communist Party ‘demand a response’ from the Canadian government, says veteran journalist Jonathan Manthorpe in his 2019 book. 
COVID-19: economic impacts and prospects
There are some potential game changers for outcomes—a vaccine; and a resurgence in international leadership and cooperation. Closer to home, we need a Canadian economic recovery plan that will boost confidence in the future with strategic and measured investments in long-term challenges and adjustment support for Canadians and businesses left behind by the coronavirus.
In what was supposed to be a period in which backbenchers and the opposition could wield more influence over the political debate, power and influence is arguably even more concentrated among a narrow cast of mostly familiar figures.
If we want to really honour Shannen Koostachin and the many children like her—we need to speak up, keep talking until government takes immediate action to end the inequality. If they don’t—vote them out because kids like Shannen are worth the money. The time for patience is over.- The 2022 Terrific 25 Staffers ranking
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With health care at risk, now is the time for the NDP to shine
As Ontario Premier Doug Ford continues his assault on public health care, the federal government shouldn't spend one second burying its head in the sand on this issue.
We can’t become desensitized to hate, harassment, and threats
Sharing instances of hate can be controversial as a journalist. To repeat it might give it more oxygen, but to ignore it means we are implicitly asking the journalists who receive such messages to endure them silently, and alone. 
Time for media to stand up against vile threats of violence
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The Canadian Free Trade Agreement’s single-minded focus on eliminating so-called barriers to interprovincial trade creates its own hurdles to issues like better environmental policy and stronger worker protections.
A dozen agriculture industry organizations released a four-point-plan with recommendations for how railways and the federal government can help with the movement of grain.
Quebec has suffered more deaths from COVID in the first six months of 2022 than the total for 2021—a pattern that mimics global trends. The WHO reported last week that cases doubled in the previous six weeks. 
We want to work with governments across the country to start putting in place solutions to challenges in our nation’s supply chain.
The terror of gender-based violence hurled at the deputy prime minister is something female journalists and female journalists of colour know all too well—with a fraction of the support from supposed feminists.
There is an urgent need to create some measure of certainty in the representation of Indigenous people in the central power structures.
The approach now employed by both the Liberal and Conservative parties allows virtually anyone to join and vote.
A shortage of tradespersons leads to higher labour costs, which in turn leads to higher home prices, less housing inventory, and longer wait times for virtually everything consumed within our economy.
Rampant parochialism is taking over Canada, and the federal government is incapable of acting in response.
A recent hospital experience was a good reminder that health-care reform isn’t some esoteric political battle. When are we going to own up to the hard truths and do something about it?Valley of the Birdtail authors looking to shift attitudes, conversations, around Indigenous reconciliation
‘That’s where the work has to be done: it’s shifting our attitudes, before we’re going to shift the policies,’ says co-author Douglas Sanderson.Prime ministers, unwittingly or not, have unleashed powerful forces when they told government managers to embrace private-sector management practices while leaving their accountability requirements intact
In an excerpt from his new book 'Government: Have Presidents and Prime Ministers Misdiagnosed the Patient?', Donald Savoie says a misdiagnosis of problems in the public service has led to prime ministers and presidents debasing these institutions. Fresh faces on board for ministers Wilkinson, Champagne
The natural resources minister and the innovation minister both recently welcomed new regional affairs advisers to their respective offices.Cole Davidson exits as Liberal research bureau comms head
Plus, Northern Affairs Minister Dan Vandal has a new special assistant for legislative and parliamentary affairs. Catherine Cullen set to take over as host of CBC’s The House
Plus, Conservative MP Mike Lake has been named the 2022 Parliamentarian champion for mental health advocacy, and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly appoints two new heads of mission in Palestine and Peru.Journalists, politicos react to LaFlamme’s shock ouster at CTV
Plus, former Liberal MP Anita Neville was named as Manitoba's lieutenant governor on Aug. 15, and former journalist turned vice-regal consort Whit Fraser has a new novel out.‘A churn that never stops’: Trudeau shuffles nine senior bureaucrats
The prime minister recently announced nine appointments to the public service senior ranks and congratulated three retirees, including Shelly Bruce, chief of the Communications Security Establishment.Trudeau announces major shakeup in senior ranks of public service, also appoints new deputy clerk of the Privy Council Office before Sunday’s election call
Former deputy clerk of the Privy Council Christyne Tremblay will remain in the PCO as a senior official.Lawn Summer Nights returns to make ‘CF stand for Cure Found’
Ottawa Lawn Summer Nights at the Elmdale Lawn Bowling club is back every Wednesday in July to raise money for Cystic Fibrosis Canada. 
‘We need to talk’: Bangladesh seeks ministerial meeting with Canada to discuss the removal of a convicted killer
Bangladeshi High Commissioner Khalilur Rahman says Canada is protecting a convicted killer, while not protecting a diplomat posted to Ottawa. ‘Timing is essential’: quick delivery of arms needed ahead of ‘intense’ fighting, says new Ukrainian ambassador
'The only [place] where negotiations are happening are on the battlefield,' says Ukrainian Ambassador Yulia Kovaliv on the pathway to end the war.
September rolls in with Labour Day long weekend
Pedestrians stroll along Wellington Street in front of Parliament Hill on Aug. 3. The Labour Day long weekend will mark the last real taste of summer before the House returns on Sept. 19. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld and Minister for Women and Gender Equality Marci Ien wave as they march with the Liberal Party contingent at the Ottawa Pride Parade on Aug. 28, 2022. 
Bill Graham, pictured in 2006 when he was the interim Liberal leader following Paul Martin’s defeat. Graham, a former federal Liberal foreign affairs minister and defence minister, died on Sunday, Aug. 7, at the 83, of cancer.
