Hill Life & People

Artist Phil Richards calls his portrait of Stephen Harper ‘more insightful than your typical media snapshot’

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

• On the eve of the unveiling of Stephen Harper’s official portrait, the artist who painted it opens up about his creative process, getting to know the former PM, and whom he’d like to paint next.

Artist Phil Richards calls his portrait of Stephen Harper ‘more insightful than your typical media snapshot’

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

• On the eve of the unveiling of Stephen Harper’s official portrait, the artist who painted it opens up about his creative process, getting to know the former PM, and whom he’d like to paint next.

Carney meets the premiers

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA, CHARELLE EVELYN

Federal public servants rally on Hill against job cuts

FeatureBY MARLO GLASS

Energy Minister Hodgson promotes new press secretary, director

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Thailand throws national day party

FeatureBY SAM GARCIA

in-depth feature

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2025

FeatureBY KATE MALLOY

All eyes on Trump: meet the top 50 foreign policy influencers navigating Canada’s role in a rocky world

NewsBY NEIL MOSS, STUART BENSON, IREM KOCA

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Lobbyists in 2025: lobbyists prepare for ‘significant reset’ as federal election begins

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT AND SERGIY SLIPCHENKO

Always leave them wanting more: Fraser tops All Politics Poll as he looks to exit federal politics

NewsBY SOPHALL DUCH

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2024

FeatureBY KATE MALLOY

The premiers meet in Ottawa

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

• Plus, Sean Fraser defends his bail and sentencing bill at committee.

The premiers meet in Ottawa

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

• Plus, Sean Fraser defends his bail and sentencing bill at committee.

Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony honours ‘debt we owe’ to victims, heroes

FeatureBY ANDREW MEADE

NDP MP McPherson tables bill to ban company unions 

FeatureBY ELEANOR WAND

Former Liberal MP Kirsty Duncan remembered for her ‘warmth, kindness, and grace’

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

Carney meets Main—and maybe Captain Canada

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

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heard on the hill

Eight takeaways from Max Valiquette’s memoir of his time in the Trudeau PMO: I ‘got to carry something we called the Bat-phone’

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

Investigative reporter Susanne Craig to be honoured by Canadian Journalism Foundation on June 10

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

Columnist Matt Gurney opens up about his wife’s cancer diagnosis: ‘I am going to fight for her with absolutely everything I have’

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

Ottawa’s premier hatmaker to the House Speaker and Governor General has died

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

‘Tara was a ray of light’: Politicos across Canada show their support for Yaroslav Baran, whose wife Tara Baran, a former Conservative Hill staffer, died two weeks ago

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

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PHOTO GALLERY

MPs return to Ottawa as Parliament resumes

PHOTO GALLERY

Albanian embassy marks national day

PHOTO GALLERY

Latvian envoy plays host at War Museum 

photo of the day

PHOTO OF THE DAY

Former Liberal minister Kirsty Duncan dies at 59

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BOOKS, BIG IDEAS, Q&AS

Q&A | On Carney’s ‘brilliant’ speech, efforts to ‘neutralize’ China, and more with Sheila Copps

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

• ‘The most important discussion [for cabinet] is going to be around how they tackle the CUSMA challenge and also how they get these new markets going," said Sheila Copps.

Q&A | On Carney’s ‘brilliant’ speech, efforts to ‘neutralize’ China, and more with Sheila Copps

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

• ‘The most important discussion [for cabinet] is going to be around how they tackle the CUSMA challenge and also how they get these new markets going," said Sheila Copps.

Depicting ‘Dad’ Carney, ‘angry face’ Poilievre, and Trump’s ‘bizarre’ brand of ‘chaos’: de Adder’s top cartoons of 2025

FeatureBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

‘Treating politics as a system of balance, not battle’: new book brings fresh insights into Mackenzie King and lessons for today’s leaders

FeatureBY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

‘Don’t be indifferent’: Iranian-Canadian author shares story of his life inside infamous Tehran prison in new book

FeatureBY IREM KOCA

First Nations are ‘ready’ to move beyond the Indian Act, but time’s running out, says author Bob Joseph

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

Diplomatic Circles

Joint co-operation needed to tackle spread of narcotics, says Colombian defence minister 

‘Canada is getting more and more important for us,’ says visiting German Bundestag member

How a former Hill staffer is lionizing a Canadian that helped end the Troubles 

‘I’ve had to run to keep up’: U.K. envoy trumpets ‘new energy’ in Canadian relationship, but questions loom over trade talks

hill climbers

Senior staff shake-up for Indigenous Services Minister Gull-Masty

Environment Minister Dabrusin promotes new deputy director, adds more aides

New policy adviser among recent staff changes for Trade Minister Sidhu

Checking in on Minister MacKinnon’s transport team

party central

Dance For Her heats up The Met, raises over $35K for ‘revolutionary’ fight against ovarian cancer

Copperbelt breaks ground at National Arts Centre

The Grinch steals Conservatives’ Christmas, delivers the Liberals a miracle 171st seat

A double shot of Poilievre at the 2025 Press Gallery Dinner

civil circles

Deputy minister shuffle sees shakeup to Privy Council Office, nine new leaders in key roles

Large shuffle to public service expected once Sabia takes PCO reins

The federal public servants running in election 2025

Fisher to lead new water agency, while ministers announce raft of new Crown corp board chairs

photo gallery

Taiwan draws a crowd on the Hill

Colombia celebrates through music and art

A winter’s day near Parliament Hill

This year in photos: fall budget drops, legislation in flux, and NDP off to the leadership races

photo of the day

MP Genuis pitches youth jobs plan

Convoy protest organizers Lich, Barber sentenced to house arrest

Michel confirms national dental program to be spared from cuts

Carney convenes cabinet forum

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book review

‘I was speaking to a group of high school students, and none of them knew who Lester B. Pearson was’: historian J.D.M. Stewart hopes to change that with his new book, The Prime Ministers

The Finest Hotel in Kabul is a window into Afghan endurance through the eyes of locals working at the Intercontinental Hotel

The Coutts Diaries is the most revealing book ever written about Canadian politics

Andrew Coyne fears and foretells the fall of Canada

top 100 best political books

The Hill Times’ 100 Best Books of 2023

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2022

The Hill Times’ 100 Best Books in 2021

The Hill Times’ List of 100 Best Books in 2020

politically savvy survey

Poilievre voted best public speaker, most quotable, hardest-working, and biggest self-promoter in The Hill Times’ 29th Annual Politically Savvy Survey

Poilievre sweeps a suite of categories in the 27th annual Politically Savvy Survey

Freeland, LeBlanc, Morneau voted most influential ministers in 26th annual Politically Savvy Survey

Goodale voted Best Cabinet Minister in QP, Scrums in The Hill Times’ 25th annual Politically Savvy Survey

100 most influential in government and politics

The 100 most influential people in federal politics and government to watch in 2024

Top 100: the most influential people in government and politics in 2023

Post-election heavy hitters: the top 100 most influential people to watch in federal politics in 2022

Pandemic edition: Top 100 most influential people to watch in 2021

top 25 staffer survey

Telford untouchable at the top of the 21st Terrific 25 Staffers list, as Conservatives sweep Most Knowledgeable and Best Spin

Telford three-peats at the top of the 20th Terrific 25 Staffers list, LRB’s Wendy Wu voted Best All-Round

Telford tops 19th annual Terrific 25 Staffer list, NDP’s Salloum voted Best All-Round

Kurusamy sweeps three categories and ranks as the top Terrific Staffer

top 100 lobbyist

Top 100 Lobbyists in 2023: green tech and economy boosting set for top advocacy priorities in 2023, say lobbyists

Top 100 Lobbyists 2022: Hybrid model is new norm for lobbyists tired of virtual meetings

Top 100 Lobbyists: Pandemic ushers in explosion of lobbying activity

Lobbying the money man: Morneau draws interest from wide range of government-relations practitioners

the insiders guide to parliament

Government should be ‘pretty pleased’ with first session of Parliament, but summer will be ‘the calm before the storm,’ say observers

Winter House sitting will be like ‘political hunger games’ between O’Toole and Trudeau, say pollsters

A parliamentary session like no other

Into the unknowns of the 44th Parliament

all politics poll: best and worst in politics

Housing Minister Fraser a 2023 fan favourite on Parliament Hill: All Politics Poll

Poilievre doubles as most valuable, least valuable politician in 2022 in The Hill Times’ All Politics Poll

Anand named most valuable politician, climate change voted most important issue in The Hill Times’ 23rd Annual All Politics Poll

Freeland named most valuable politician, NAFTA voted biggest story in The Hill Times’ 22nd Annual All Politics Poll

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