The King plants roots in Ottawa on Day 1 of royal visit

The Hill Times
A number of Trudeau-era cabinet staff bidding Hill farewell

Elections mean changeover among the Hill’s staffing ranks, and aides across the partisan divide have been saying their goodbyes.
Q&A | Question Period, House decorum, and cabinet missteps with Sheila Copps

Prime Minister Mark Carney ‘needs to allow his ministers to take front and centre in some of the files,’ but they need to stay in their ‘lane,’ says the former Liberal deputy prime minister.
de Adder’s Take: 05-26-2025

Ailish Campbell to talk about Canada and the EU in a shifting world order on May 26 at the C.D. Howe Institute

MONDAY, MAY 26 Parliament Returns—Parliamentarians are set to return to the Hill today. Launch of OECD Economic Survey of Canada—OECD Chief Economist Álvaro Pereira will present the findings of the group’s Economic Survey of Canada, exploring the macroeconomic outlook and policy challenges, balancing short-term support with further improvements in medium-term resilience. Monday, May 26, at […]
The Royals come to Ottawa with a bang

Plus, MPs pick a House Speaker.
Throne Speech’s location and furniture will be unique to King Charles

Also, former Conservative PMO staffer Ian Brodie joins New West Public Affairs, ex-Liberal PMO staffer Zita Astravas joins the Pearson Centre’s board, and one of Canada’s top 100 restaurants is in the Parliamentary precinct.
U.S. senators arrive in Ottawa to meet Carney

Plus, the federal energy minister meets his Alberta counterpart.
A little rain never hurt a Riverkeeper

Annual gala fundraiser supporting Ottawa’s watershed swaps banks for wet and wild shindig, and rakes in $330,000 under the clouds on May 21 at Jacques Cartier Park.
A look at Treasury Board rules as Carney and cabinet start to staff up

With 28 ministers and 10 secretaries of state, hundreds of staffing hires will take place in the coming days and weeks.