de Adder’s Take: 03-04-2024
This just in: Eleanor Wachtel this year’s chair of prestigious International Booker Prize jury ‘the most extraordinary book club in the world’
Plus, NDP MP Alistair MacGregor named caucus chair, Huda Mukbil joins Black Class Action Secretariat advisory board, NDP MP Daniel Blaikie says farewell to the House, Phil von Finckenstein writes for The Glebe Report, Tory MP Luc Berthold celebrates hometown newspaper, Liberal MP Irek Kusmierczyk recently joined Unifor workers on picket line at Jamieson Vitamins, and Super Tuesday comes to Ottawa.
Wab Kinew to deliver speech at Economic Club of Canada on March 4 in Toronto
MONDAY, MARCH 4 House Sitting Schedule—The House is scheduled to sit for a total of 125 days in 2024. The House breaks 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 again on […]
NAWL celebrates 50 years of feminist law reform
The National Association of Women and the Law celebrated its 50th anniversary on Feb. 29th in the Wellington Building with an awards reception and a giant red-velvet cake.
Two staff in, one out in Heritage Minister Pascale St-Onge’s shop
Plus, there are staff updates to note in Small Business Minister Rechie Valdez’s office.
Tory MP Stephanie Kusie meets with U.S. politician and Cuban exiles in Miami
Also, six women working on Centre Block’s big reno will speak on March 7, Navigator’s Graham Fox is heading to Hydro-Québec, and Conservative MP Arnold Viersen’s family grows to eight.
Italian PM Meloni touches down in Toronto, meets with PM Trudeau on March 2
MONDAY, FEB. 26—THURSDAY, FEB. 29 WTO Ministerial Conference—International Trade, Export Promotion, and Economic Development Minister Mary Ng will attend the 13th World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference. Ministers from across the world will attend to review the functioning of the multilateral trading system and to take action on the future work of the WTO. Monday, Feb. […]
New Peruvian envoy hopes for increased Canadian engagement in Latin America
In a wide-ranging interview, new Peruvian Ambassador Manuel Gerardo Talavera Espinar talks Canada’s place in the Americas, its burdensome visa regime, and trade.
de Adder’s Take: 02-28-2024
Staff updates for ministers MacAulay, Lebouthillier, and MacKinnon
In the Government House Leader’s office, Sarah Leclair has been hired as a senior adviser for parliamentary affairs.
