Hill Life & People

Here’s a look at the current employment team under Minister Petitpas Taylor

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

• Wyatt Westover is now press secretary to the employment minister, and Samantha Jerome was recently hired as a digital communications adviser.

Here’s a look at the current employment team under Minister Petitpas Taylor

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

• Wyatt Westover is now press secretary to the employment minister, and Samantha Jerome was recently hired as a digital communications adviser.

Minister Joly digs into feds’ new Arctic policy for Montreal audience on Dec. 13

Côté marks her half-century on the Hill as Long Service Awards are doled out

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

Banking on it

FeatureBY RIDDHI KACHHELA, PETER MAZEREEUW

PPS investigates ‘suspicious package,’ finds it ‘unsuspicious’

NewsBY JESSE CNOCKAERT

in-depth feature

Poilievre voted best public speaker, most quotable, hardest-working, and biggest self-promoter in The Hill Times’ 29th Annual Politically Savvy Survey

NewsBY STEPHEN JEFFERY

Telford untouchable at the top of the 21st Terrific 25 Staffers list, as Conservatives sweep Most Knowledgeable and Best Spin

NewsBY STUART BENSON

U.S. election preoccupies Canada’s top 50 foreign influencers as feds’ focus gets pulled from Asia strategy

NewsBY NEIL MOSS, STEPHEN JEFFERY, STUART BENSON, JONAH GRIGNON

The 100 most influential people in federal politics and government to watch in 2024

NewsBY CHELSEA NASH, LAURA RYCKEWAERT, MIKE LAPOINTE, IAN CAMPBELL, STEPHEN JEFFERY, NEIL MOSS

The Hill Times’ 100 Best Books of 2023

FeatureBY KATE MALLOY

Supply and confidence

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

• Plus, Senators start the final round of debate on the sales tax holiday bill.

Supply and confidence

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW, RIDDHI KACHHELA

• Plus, Senators start the final round of debate on the sales tax holiday bill.

Confidence vote incoming

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

MacKinnon scoops up Tassi staffer to fill parliamentary affairs team

FeatureBY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

Double dippers

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Tourism Minister Martinez Ferrada to deliver speech in Montreal on Monday, Dec. 9

heard on the hill

NDP MP Randall Garrison says he’ll resign in January, cites health reasons

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

Ana Poilievre leads the Conservative road show

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

Riding of Mount Royal ‘officially in toss-up territory,’ cheers local mayor

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

After 2021 nail-biter, Liberal MP Shanahan won’t run again

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

Psst… Lawrence Martin’s friend says Chrétien says Trudeau is ‘toast’

FeatureBY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

the hill times photo gallery

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South Korea marks national day

PHOTO GALLERY

A look at Centre Block under construction

PHOTO GALLERY

Ottawa pays tribute to veterans at national ceremony

photo of the day

PHOTO OF THE DAY

Scheer addresses House gridlock over privilege debate

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FROM THE ARCHIVES

From The Hill Times’ Photo Archives

BOOKS, BIG IDEAS, Q&AS

Q&A | How foreign actors and criminals use dirty money in Canada

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

• ‘If we're not looking at how those activities are financed, we're missing a whole piece of the puzzle,’ says national security expert Jessica Davis.

Q&A | How foreign actors and criminals use dirty money in Canada

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

• ‘If we're not looking at how those activities are financed, we're missing a whole piece of the puzzle,’ says national security expert Jessica Davis.

Q&A | DeMarco dissects Net Zero Accelerator fund’s flaws

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

Angus says his new book is not a lament, it’s a call to arms

FeatureBY KATE MALLOY

What’s so wrong with Canada that we best snap out of our complacency?

FeatureBY CHRISTOPHER DORNAN

Q&A | Immigration reversal and a system ‘in chaos’

FeatureBY PETER MAZEREEUW

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Diplomatic Circles

Israel wants Hassan Diab to serve prison sentence in France but vows to stay out of any extradition request

We need to be ‘clear-eyed’ about Putin’s conflict with the West, says new German ambassador

‘We’re nowhere near overcoming’ climate change issues, says Jamaican envoy in wake of Hurricane Beryl

U.S. envoy David Cohen navigates unaccustomed hiatus from political arena as presidential vote looms  

hill climbers

PMO press sec Hussain now comms director to tourism minister 

Minister Beech recruits new operations director

Director-level updates for Defence Minister Blair, Foreign Affairs Minister Joly

New parliamentary affairs, issues head incoming for Minister Hussen

party central

End of an era: Van Dusen signs off with a song

Poilievre a ‘Nerd Prom’ no-show, Trudeau’s jokes more funny in ‘original German’

Party on the Hill, one party of the year

Party Central: happy Liberals squeeze in some down time post-strategy session at the Métropolitain

civil circles

Lawsuit alleging anti-Black racism in public service at court for class-action certification hearings

Number of students in public service hits 10-year high as union warns against use as cheap labour

Nearly half of Canada’s public servants are now millennials, but Gen X holds onto management reins

PM’s shuffle of deputy ministers gears government up for challenges of 2023, 2024, and possible ‘Trump round two,’ says former PCO clerk

photo gallery

Saint Kitts and Nevis mark independence anniversary

Slovakia throws national day party

Nepal’s foreign minister joins national day fun

Knives out? Liberals grapple with leadership question

photo of the day

Canada Post workers picket in Ottawa

Freeland addresses ‘anxious’ Canadians

‘Canada lost a giant’ with Sinclair’s death, says Trudeau

Conservatives trying to ‘muck up Parliament,’ says Gould

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From The Hill Times’ Photo Archives

From The Hill Times’ Photo Archives

From The Hill Times’ Photo Archives

From The Hill Times’ Photo Archives

book review

Trudeau: he eludes us still

Author of Trudeau biography says he doesn’t think Trudeau will run again, but Lanthier says ‘even if he might lose, he wants to go down fighting against Pierre Poilievre’

What makes Canada the country that it is, what should we work to preserve, and what should we try to change?

An enthralling exploration of the Petrocene Age

top 100 best political books

The Hill Times’ Top 100 Best Books in 2022

The Hill Times’ 100 Best Books in 2021

The Hill Times’ List of 100 Best Books in 2020

Books & Big Ideas: a delicious package of reading

politically savvy survey

Poilievre sweeps a suite of categories in the 27th annual Politically Savvy Survey

Freeland, LeBlanc, Morneau voted most influential ministers in 26th annual Politically Savvy Survey

Goodale voted Best Cabinet Minister in QP, Scrums in The Hill Times’ 25th annual Politically Savvy Survey

Moore voted best Cabinet minister, but Kenney still most influential: The Hill Times’ 23rd Annual Politically Savvy Survey

100 most influential in government and politics

Top 100: the most influential people in government and politics in 2023

Post-election heavy hitters: the top 100 most influential people to watch in federal politics in 2022

Pandemic edition: Top 100 most influential people to watch in 2021

Where were all the MPs on Top 100 Most Influential?

top 25 staffer survey

Telford three-peats at the top of the 20th Terrific 25 Staffers list, LRB’s Wendy Wu voted Best All-Round

Telford tops 19th annual Terrific 25 Staffer list, NDP’s Salloum voted Best All-Round

Kurusamy sweeps three categories and ranks as the top Terrific Staffer

PMO stalwarts Butts, Telford claim top spots in The Hill Times’ 17th annual Terrific 25 Staffers Survey

top 100 lobbyist

Top 100 Lobbyists in 2023: green tech and economy boosting set for top advocacy priorities in 2023, say lobbyists

Top 100 Lobbyists 2022: Hybrid model is new norm for lobbyists tired of virtual meetings

Top 100 Lobbyists: Pandemic ushers in explosion of lobbying activity

Lobbying the money man: Morneau draws interest from wide range of government-relations practitioners

the insiders guide to parliament

Government should be ‘pretty pleased’ with first session of Parliament, but summer will be ‘the calm before the storm,’ say observers

Winter House sitting will be like ‘political hunger games’ between O’Toole and Trudeau, say pollsters

A parliamentary session like no other

Into the unknowns of the 44th Parliament

all politics poll: best and worst in politics

Housing Minister Fraser a 2023 fan favourite on Parliament Hill: All Politics Poll

Poilievre doubles as most valuable, least valuable politician in 2022 in The Hill Times’ All Politics Poll

Anand named most valuable politician, climate change voted most important issue in The Hill Times’ 23rd Annual All Politics Poll

Freeland named most valuable politician, NAFTA voted biggest story in The Hill Times’ 22nd Annual All Politics Poll

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