Morguard sells CBC headquarters to PSPC for $125.3-million

Plus, Irish ambassador to host St. Patrick’s Day reception; MPs, Trudeau mourn death of Kim Rudd; Tom Kmiec’s family affected by two rare diseases; Shafqat Ali celebrates Marc Andrews; Oliphant pays respects to late Alan Redway and John Godfrey; and Cardozo, Fortier to host talk on crisis in news media.
March break music soirée at Birkett Castle

The ambassador of Hungary hosted diplomats and socialites at her official residence for an intimate performance by organist Xaver Varnus and violinist Zoltán Schwartz
Transport Minister Rodriguez promotes new chief of staff, policy director

Among the recent changes, director of cabinet, appointments, and parliamentary affairs Vasken Vosguian is now also deputy chief of staff to the transport minister.
‘May you govern in interesting times’: MPs, Senators look back on the COVID-19 pandemic and the day ‘everything changed’

With four years in the books since Canada’s Parliament shut down to deal with an emerging public health threat, and more than a year after the World Health Organization announced an official end to the global pandemic, Labour Minister Seamus O’Regan says no one is ‘over COVID.’
de Adder’s Take: 03-13-2024

Cochrane, Kapelos among Canadian Screen Awards nominees

Plus, GG Simon will host a gathering to promote respectful online dialogue, former chief justice McLachlin says C-63 could be challenged in the courts, and where does Canada stand when it comes to women on our banknotes?
AG Karen Hogan tables First Nations housing, policing audits on March 19

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13 House Sitting Schedule—The House is scheduled to sit for a total of 125 days in 2024. The House is on break for two weeks (March 4-15). The House comes back again on March 18 and sits for a week until March 22. It breaks for two weeks on March 25, and returns […]
Where are they now: ex-staffers land new jobs at Humber College, Competition Bureau, and more

Plus, an update for Emergency Preparedness Minister Harjit Sajjan’s office.
Canadian and provincial flags fly at half mast to honour former PM Mulroney

Political cartoonist de Adder launches new strip following departure from The Washington Post, he will be keynote speaker at Kesterton Lecture in Ottawa on March 20

Plus, The Globe’s Bob Fife and Steve Chase win Ross Munro Award, Perrin Beatty to step down in August, Bloc MP Yves Perron says UNESCO has renewed Lac Saint-Pierre region as a ‘world biosphere reserve,’ and Liberal MP Michael Coteau recognizes Order of Canada award recipient Lillie Johnson. And more.