Now is no time to slide on transparency
In times like these, sunlight can be the greatest shield and disinfectant.
Note to staff: leave no stone unturned, and ask for help
The moment, and your direct bosses—and their bosses, the voting taxpayers—are looking for you to rise to the occasion.
Cabinet chief of staff Savannah DeWolfe talks managing an ‘intense’ Hill job
For rookies starting out on the Hill, DeWolfe emphasized the importance of communication, and providing the full picture regarding decisions.
Youth descend on Senate Chamber for climate solutions assembly
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 17 CUTA 2025 Policy Forum—The Canadian Urban Transit Association hosts its 2025 Policy Forum, bringing together some of North America’s leading transit and urban mobility experts to discuss the industry’s future. Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 8 a.m. ET the Lord Elgin Hotel, 100 Elgin St., Ottawa. Register via Eventbrite. AFN First Nations ISET Agreement […]
Is Canada ready for the nation-defining challenges ahead?
If we are going to succeed in the historic task of reinventing our economic culture, it will take hitherto unknown co-operation, compromise, and good-faith bargaining.
NDP MPs rally for Labour Code changes
The Hill Times
Freeland resigns from cabinet after a decade as key Liberal minister for role as envoy for Ukraine
Six months after Prime Minister Mark Carney tapped his Liberal leadership rival to lead internal trade, Chrystia Freeland says she’s ‘turning the page on this chapter’ in cabinet, and while she will remain on as an MP, she will not be running in the next election.
Public service cuts by attrition are ‘passive, lazy, and random,’ warns ex-Privy Council Office clerk Wernick
Ahead of a consequential fall budget, Prime Minister Mark Carney says reducing the federal bureaucracy bloat will ‘happen naturally through attrition.’
MPs are back in action
The Hill Times
The number of sick days claimed by bureaucrats, broken down by department
Bureaucrats in the core public administration called out sick an average of 9.2 days in 2023-24 compared to 5.9 in 2020-21, marking a rise in days claimed by employees in every department and agency in the core public service since the onset of the pandemic. The Hill Times reported on the Treasury Board Secretariat’s most […]
