Unionized Jewish employees to take PSAC to Canadian Human Rights Tribunal over Israel-Hamas war
Plus, Cape Breton pounded with 150 cm of snow; Hill launch of Howard McCurdy’s memoir in the House Speaker’s Office on Feb. 20; Jean Augustine to deliver speech in Toronto; and Liberal MP John McKay and ISG Senator Julie Miville-Dechêne receive an award.
Diversity, Inclusion Minister Khera hires three new staffers
Plus, Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly added a new aide, and Hill Climbers catches up with staffing in National Revenue Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau’s shop.
Staff changes for Treasury Board President Anand, Health Minister Holland
Updates for Health Minister Mark Holland’s office include the addition of Fatima Asghar as a junior policy adviser.
Macklem to deliver speech at Montreal Council on Foreign Relations on Tuesday, Feb. 6
MONDAY, FEB. 5 House Sitting—Parliamentarians have returned to Ottawa following six weeks in their constituencies. The House will sit until Friday, Feb. 16. The House is scheduled to sit for a total of 125 days in 2024. It will sit Jan. 29-Feb. 16, and will break for one week (Feb. 19-23). It returns for one […]
Beech, Hutchings, and Petitpas Taylor have new press secretaries on board
Recent changes in Citizens’ Services Minister Terry Beech’s office also include Ellen Galupo’s promotion to director of policy.
A look at Pablo Rodriguez’s Quebec Lieutenant team
Plus, Hill Climbers catches up with some former staffers, including Katherine Koostachin, who recently joined the Sussex Strategy Group.
Have I told you the one about Ron Wood?
Known as ‘Woody,’ Ron Wood, a former Hill reporter in the 1960s who became a top adviser to then-Reform Party leader Preston Manning, died on Jan. 17 in Calgary. His friend Jim Armour called Wood a ‘genuine character.’
‘In the 1970s and 1980s, Peter was quite simply a legendary talent and friend’: Tom Axworthy
Peter O’Malley, a skilled communications consultant who had also served as Ed Broadbent’s press secretary in the late 1970s and 1980s, died on Jan. 12. He was a gifted storyteller, lovely, fun, curious, intelligent, and one of the Hill’s best conversationalists.
Boissonnault to talk about innovation, sustainability, and the future of work on Jan. 29 at NAC in Ottawa
MONDAY, JAN. 29 House Sitting—Parliamentarians return to Ottawa following six weeks in their constituencies. The House will sit until Friday, Feb. 16. The House is scheduled to sit for a total of 125 days in 2024. It will sit Jan. 29-Feb. 16, and will break for one week (Feb. 19-23). It returns for one week […]
Parliament construction work chugs ahead, as new acting LTVP point person steps in
Jennifer Garrett has been tapped to replace Rob Wright as the assistant deputy minister responsible for overseeing Hill renovations on an interim basis.
