Kippen exits as chief to Minister Chagger to join Liberal HQ
Diversity, Inclusion, and Youth Minister Bardish Chagger is in the market for a new chief of staff following Jamie Kippen’s exit for Liberal Party headquarters earlier this month, where he’s taken up the post of senior director of election readiness. “His work is focused on continuing to step up our Liberal volunteers’ work to stay […]
Trade Minister Ng hires a new policy director, Jillian White
Small Business, Export Promotion, and International Trade Minister Mary Ng has new hands on the wheel of her ministerial policy team, after recruiting Jillian White from Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s team to replace Simon Beauchemin as Ms. Ng’s director of policy. Mr. Beauchemin marked his exit at the end of January and had […]
Amid COVID-19, grieving support bill ‘really hit home’ for MPs, says Jeneroux
After a year marked by loss, a private member’s bill aimed at extending the time some Canadians can take off after the death of a loved one has garnered “unprecedented” cross-partisan support and co-operation. Bill C-220, first introduced by Conservative MP Matt Jeneroux (Edmonton Riverbend, Alta.) in February 2020 and reinstated in September after the […]
Potential candidates in four winnable Liberal ridings eagerly awaiting timeline for nomination contests
Would-be replacements for four ousted or departing Ontario Liberal MPs say they want to know when the party will release details about the nomination process for the next election. The four ridings include Mississauga-Malton, currently represented by Liberal MP Navdeep Bains; Brampton Centre, currently represented by Ind. MP Ramesh Sangha; Kitchener South-Hespeler, currently represented by […]
Social Development Minister Hussen adds two policy assistants, new Atlantic adviser
Families, Children, and Social Development Minister Ahmed Hussen has five recent additions to his ministerial team, including Jibril Hussein as Atlantic regional affairs adviser and assistant to the minister’s parliamentary secretary. Mr. Hussein started on the job in early February. He graduated from the University of Winnipeg, where he studied for a bachelor’s degree in […]
Universal basic income, transit, seniors care in focus for members heading into the Liberal policy convention
From universal basic income to a national transit strategy, Liberal Party members will be looking to debate a range of policies at the party’s upcoming policy convention, a debate they expect will unfold as usual, despite the fact this year delegates won’t be converging in person as a result of COVID-19. This year’s convention will […]
Transport Minister Alghabra hires two directors from the Prime Minister’s Office
The latest addition to the Trudeau Liberal government’s front bench, new Transport Minister Omar Alghabra is getting his office in shape, and recently recruited two staffers from the Prime Minister’s Office to serve as directors on his team. Angad Dhillon, who’s spent the last almost two and a half years serving as an Ontario regional […]
Bossio exits Monsef’s office to ready run for re-election
Former Liberal MP Mike Bossio has bade Women and Gender Equality Minister Maryam Monsef’s office farewell and on Feb. 16 was announced as the Liberal Party’s candidate for Hastings-Lennox and Addington, Ont. Mr. Bossio previously represented the riding in the House of Commons from 2015 to 2019, having lost the seat to Conservative-turned-Independent MP Derek […]
Innovation Minister Champagne firms up his new team
Innovation, Science, and Industry Minister François-Philippe Champagne has now firmed up much of his ministerial office since being shuffled from foreign affairs on Jan. 12, including bringing a handful of staffers from his old office to his new one. Brook Simpson is among those who have followed Mr. Champagne to his new post, continuing as […]
Canada’s political parties are stuck in a communications rut
OAKVILLE, ONT.—In the movie, Waterloo, which tells the story of Napoleon’s famous last battle, there’s a scene where, as he eyes massed ranks of marching French troops, the Duke of Wellington (played by the late Christopher Plummer), stoically proclaims “They’re coming at us in the same old style,” to which an officer replies, “Well then, […]
