Four new books out: The Mosaic Effect; The Wild Horses of Chilcotin; Beryl, The Making of a Disability Activist; and She Dared to Succeed
Plus, Charlotte Gray’s Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons one of Indigo’s top books of 2023; Pluralism Awards celebrates hard work of diversity; Bobby Jamieson has died; Rob Goodman to launch new book in Toronto; and more.
George Elliott Clarke completes late NDP MP Howard McCurdy’s book for him: ‘he was the most unforgettably proud Black man that I ever had the pleasure to know’
Also, Liberals plan a big 90th birthday bash in January 2024 for Jean Chrétien; Dalhousie creates new Senator Don Oliver Scholarship; and Richard Madan is picked up by CBC News in Washington.
Ian Shugart: may his memory be eternal
On Jan. 30, 2019, during a trip to Turkey, Ian Shugart, then deputy minister of foreign affairs, visited His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians. I wrote to Shugart to express my gratitude to him for visiting the first throne of Orthodoxy; to my surprise, he wrote […]
India’s High Commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma to deliver remarks at the Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on Nov. 7
MONDAY, NOV. 6 House Sitting—The House will sit Nov. 6-10. It will break for one week (Nov. 13-17) and will resume sitting on Monday, Nov. 20, and will sit for four weeks (Nov. 20-Dec. 15). It’s scheduled to return on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. #ChampionChildrenInEmergencies Reception—Results Canada hosts a parliamentary reception to draw attention to […]
Joe Maingot wrote the book on parliamentary privilege, and he was my lifelong friend
Joe Maingot became one the country’s leading experts on parliamentary privilege, was well-known in the Hill community, and kept active all his life. In July 28, 2022, the 91-year old cycled from his Sandy Hill home to The Hill Times’ downtown newsroom to say hello.
‘Things are stacking up’: BOIE delays four Centre Block design decisions
‘Although the project continues to track well, we have been taking on some water on the design side in decision-making,’ PSPC’s Rob Wright told the BOIE on Oct. 26.
‘Politicians work in a fishbowl environment:’ MPs should talk about scaling back the role of officers of Parliament, says Savoie
It’s the job of Parliament to hold parliamentarians to account, not officers of Parliament, says Donald Savoie. He also says cabinet minsters should be allowed to hire their own chiefs of staff, social media is destroying the credibility of parliamentary institutions, and politicians need to put a plug in the personal insults. Democracy is at stake.
Foreign Affairs Minister Joly to deliver speech at Economic Club in Toronto on Oct. 30
MONDAY, OCT. 30 House Sitting—The House will sit for two consecutive weeks (Oct. 30-Nov. 10). It will break for one week (Nov. 13-17) and will resume sitting on Monday, Nov. 20, and will sit for four weeks (Nov. 20-Dec. 15). It’s scheduled to return on Monday, Jan. 29, 2024. Stem Cell Registry—Parliamentarians and staff are […]
House Speaker Fergus recuses himself from ruling on question of privilege on PM’s Montana vacation expenses
Plus, Optimum Publishing to host launch of the Mosaic Effect at the 3 Brasseurs on Oct. 25, and University of Toronto professor Akwasi Owusu-Bempah, co-author of Waiting to Inhale: Cannabis Legalization and the Fight for Racial Justice to keynote the Institute for Research on Public Policy’s fall lecture in Ottawa on Nov. 8.
‘Suspended animation’: acting assignments pile up within House administration
Five key roles within the House of Commons administration are currently filled on an acting basis; meanwhile, the Senate has had a series of interim clerks since 2015.
