Note to MPs: free advice on setting up your constituency office(s)
Never lose sight of the prime directive: you want to put in place a team to deal with an inordinate number of complicated files in a manner that leaves the constituent with the view that they were treated in a professional and timely way. Not only will you not win them all—you will not win the vast majority of them and how people feel they have been treated will be very important to your future.
Meet the first 12 chiefs of staff confirmed for the Carney cabinet
The list includes some first-time chiefs of staff, along with plenty of familiar faces.
Carney benches Trudeau’s ‘Hallmark card’ mandate letter format, opts for broad priority list for all ministers
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s public across-cabinet missive is short and broad, outlining only seven priorities for all 28 ministers, and departing from his predecessor’s lengthy directions to each minister.
NDP identity crisis calls for a return to party’s roots
In losing official status, the NDP faces a hard test: does it remain tied to power politics or return to its social democratic origins?
Feds set out $486.9-billion in spending in 2025-26 main estimates
The total budgetary ask represents an 8.4 per cent jump over last year’s spending document, and includes $73.4-billion in special warrants issued while Parliament was prorogued.
Feds can’t continue to delay ‘heavy lifting’ on foreign interference response, says NDP MP Jenny Kwan
The promised foreign agents’ registry failed to materialize before the election, and the continued wait is frustrating, says Jenny Kwan.
Big dig under Centre Block has begun as project spending reaches $1.2-billion
Scaffolding is starting to go up along Centre Block’s iconic southern façade, and once erected, will be covered by a trompe-l’oeil tarp.
In 50 years, the G7’s never had a summit like the one Carney is hosting next month
It’s hard to imagine how the stakes could be higher in the midst of the U.S. president’s economic warfare against most of the other attendees.
Carney is already short-changing transparency
The cabinet mandate letter sends a signal to expect even greater centralized control and messaging that is not conducive to the free flow of information in Ottawa.
King’s Speech from the Throne offers challenges
Public servants have been working to craft a defining direction for a government still struggling to fill ministerial staff positions, and hire new blood for the PMO.
