Trudeau book authors Wherry, Ivison talk challenge of penning political tomes as story unfolds
It’s “hard to write simple conclusions when the story itself is changing,” says Aaron Wherry, author of Promise and Peril: Justin Trudeau in Power, one of two new books on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. But John Ivison, author of Trudeau: The Education of a Prime Minister, says the emergence of the SNC-Lavalin affair “more or less […]
From where she stands: Jody Wilson-Raybould to launch new book at the Ottawa Writers Festival
Independent MP Jody Wilson-Raybould will be chatting about her new book at the Ottawa Writers Festival on Sept. 20. The former justice minister and attorney general’s new book, From Where I Stand: Rebuilding Indigenous Nations for a Stronger Canada, details how Canada can overcome its colonial system by moving past denial of its treatment of […]
Harper, Scheer, Baird, and MacKay to top speakers list at Deepak Obhrai memorial
Former prime minister Stephen Harper and senior members of his cabinet will be in Calgary on Aug. 26 to honour the life of former caucus colleague Deepak Obhrai. Mr. Obhrai died on Aug. 2, shortly after being diagnosed with late stage liver cancer. He is noted for being the longest-serving parliamentary secretary to the foreign […]
No national leaders at Capital Pride Parade, but 10 Liberal MPs will attend
There won’t be any federal party leaders at the Capital Pride Parade on Aug. 25, but local Liberal MPs and other party candidates will be there. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won’t be at the parade, a spokesperson for Mr. Trudeau told The Hill Times. Mr. Trudeau will be travelling on the day of the parade, […]
Ivison launches his Trudeau chronicle at the Métropolitain
National Post columnist John Ivison‘s soaring stature always begets tall jokes, but in her opening remarks at the launch of Mr. Ivison’s book, Trudeau: The Education of a Prime Minister, last Wednesday evening at one of political Ottawa’s favourite watering holes, the Métropolitain, Toronto Star Ottawa bureau chief Susan Delacourt, who introduced Mr. Ivison, opted to […]
Conservative dean Deepak Obhrai dies at 69, MPs honour his service to Canada
The Conservative Party’s longest-serving MP, Deepak Obhrai, died on Aug. 2. He was 69. Then a Reform MP, Mr. Obhrai first won a seat in the House of Commons in 1997. He went on to be re-elected subsequently as an Alliance and Conservative MP over the next six elections. “Mr. Obhrai was a champion of […]
Thunberg presents climate emergency with freshness and force, as if we hear of it for the first time
TORONTO—“I’m too young to do this,” says Greta Thunberg, the activist whose 2018 “school strike” in front of the Swedish Parliament launched an international youth movement to keep fossil fuels buried. One thinks of Isaiah: “And a little child will lead them.” She gave the speeches collected in this book, her first in English, at […]
World Trade Organization should abolish fisheries subsidies, stop crisis
The world’s fisheries are in a crisis, but there is a way forward, says one of Canada’s leading experts, Daniel Pauly, author of the recently released book, Vanishing Fish: Shifting Baselines and the Future of Global Fisheries. Prof. Pauly, who teaches at the University of British Columbia and directs the Sea Around Us, an initiative focused […]
Two Trudeau chronicles to hit bookshelves before October election
As political leaders release memoirs ahead of the next federal election, two Hill reporters’ books on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will also be hitting the bookstores. The National Post‘s John Ivison and CBC’s Aaron Wherry will release their books on the first four years of Mr. Trudeau’s governance. Mr. Ivison’s Trudeau: The Education of a Prime […]
Former Harper PMO comms director Andrew MacDougall pens political thriller
Former PMO communications lead Andrew MacDougall has authored a political thriller which focuses on a fictional press aide to a British prime minister who struggles to manage a crisis in the midst of a terror threat and Russian influence over the British government. Mr. MacDougall, formerly the director of communications in Stephen Harper‘s Prime Minister’s […]
