Translation Bureau to hire new interpreter well-being director
The new director is part of the bureau’s response to a Feb. 1 ruling by the federal Labour Program that it failed to protect its workforce amid a hybrid Parliament.
Liberals’ filibuster at House Affairs ‘ugly to watch,’ but it’s a ‘survival technique,’ say pollsters and politicos
The Liberals’ ongoing filibuster at the House Affairs Committee is ‘ridiculous,’ but Grit pundit Scott Reid says as hard as it might be to imagine, there’s a point behind it, there’s a principle there. However, if the filibuster becomes the story, then the whole thing will eventually roll back on the government.
This ain’t no party, but populism is destroying our federal politics
Something fundamental, and dangerous, has happened to the normally partisan world of politics, with all it warts. Populism has arrived like an 18-wheeler crashing into a bridge abutment, scattering its ugly cargo of racism, xenophobia, and trumped up distrust of government and government institutions all over the road.
‘Really unfortunate that NSICOP has been so politicized,’ says PM’s former national security adviser amid China’s election interference concerns
‘The prime minister knew full well that the practical, obvious solution to this problem was one that that wasn’t going to fly on its own, and therefore had to create a triple-headed review enterprise,’ says national security expert Wesley Wark.
While fake scandals roil Ottawa politics, the real ones continue
A tailings pond full of toxic effluent has been leaking out of Imperial Oil’s Kearl project since last May and the company never bothered to tell the Indigenous people whose land, fishing, and livelihood were imperilled.
Johnston has his work cut out for him
Foreign interference allegations are not limited to China. Recent reports of Russian interference have also surfaced. Politics is always a messy business. With identity politics, it will get even messier, writes Sheila Copps.
Is the Liberals’ House Affairs Committee filibuster a crack in this minority Parliament?
A dysfunctional Parliament that gets bogged down in games of parliamentary procedure doesn’t likely have a long lifespan.
Time to put a stop to workplace injuries plaguing interpreters
While the Translation Bureau has committed to implementing the recommended measures and to exercising more vigilance when it comes to protecting their interpreters’ health and safety, there is dire need for all meeting participants to do their part as well.
U.S. President Biden comes to Ottawa March 23-24
MONDAY, MARCH 20 House Not Sitting—The House will return on Monday, March 20, and will sit for two weeks (March 20-March 31). It will break again on Friday, March 31, for two weeks and will return on Monday, April 17, and will sit for five consecutive weeks (April 17-May 19). It will adjourn on Friday, […]
Johnston reprises role as ‘adult in the room’ as special rapporteur on foreign interference, but a ‘big question mark’ remains on timeline and scope, say observers
Political scientist Lori Turnbull says the government would have been aware that David Johnston’s connections to the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation may be questioned, but the ‘strength of the appointment’ meant the government was willing to ‘risk manage whatever mud can be flung.’
