Centre Block reno tour highlights excavations, reconstruction, and a ‘Buy Canadian’ shift
By this time next year—or early 2027, depending on how things progress—scaffolding is expected to cover the entirety of Centre Block’s iconic south façade.
MPs order release of records from new Defence Investment Agency after it leaves the PBO waiting
The House Government Operations and Estimates Committee took the step to compel the release of information after hearing from the parliamentary budget officer that multiple government departments have yet to comply with his post-budget requests to analyze financial plans.
Public service unions demand answers addressing rumours about the end of remote work
The ‘volume and specificity’ of full-time return-to-office rumours ‘warrant immediate clarity from Treasury Board’ says union president Sean O’Reilly.
‘The only thing we want to see is transparency’: MPs call to view results of feds’ internal review of high-value contracts
Public Services and Procurement Canada says the 45-day review into finding savings through federal contracting ‘was completed on schedule’ and that results will be ‘communicated in due course.’
A fresh glimpse inside the Centre Block renovation site
—The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade
Seeing beyond the cave: bridging culture in defence and procurement
Both Public Services and Procurement Canada and the defence sector carry assumptions shaped by years of operating within their own institutional caves, and are only perceiving a portion of the truth.
Deloitte’s certification as partner to Indigenous firms raises questions about access to feds’ contract regime, says Indigenous business owner
‘Billions of dollars are at stake, and corporations understand that Indigenous participation is now a central factor in how those dollars will move,’ says Indigenous business owner Steven Vanloffeld.
‘Period of fluidity’: feds signal procurement transition as Defence Investment Agency ramps up
At least 50 procurement specialists from PSPC are moving over to the new Defence Investment Agency, according to Siobhan Harty, PSPC senior associate deputy minister of defence and marine procurement.
Avro Arrow ambition is needed to meet this moment
Defence industrial capacity grows when government sends clear and sustained market signals coupled with firm long-term contracts.
Trade tribunal urges feds to redo multimillion-dollar defence bid after ‘valid’ complaint it favoured U.S. supplier
A new Canadian International Trade Tribunal ruling backs the complaint that highly restrictive technical requirements to supply night-vision binoculars effectively excluded all potential bidders except one American supplier.
