Pope sets itinerary for formal apology to residential school survivors in July visit to Canada
Pope Francis is scheduled to visit Canada later this summer to deliver a formal apology from the Roman Catholic Church for its decades-long role in operating residential schools. Scheduled from July 24 to 29, the visit will include stops in Edmonton, Quebec City, and Iqaluit. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted on May 13 that the […]
A return to her birth city: Princess Margriet visits Ottawa
Princess Margriet of the Netherlands and her husband, professor Pieter van Vollenhoven, are photographed at a tulip bed on the south end of Dow’s Lake after the opening ceremonies for Ottawa’s Tulip Festival on May 14, 2022. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson shows Princess Margriet of the Netherlands a […]
PMO’s executive, HR, research, and correspondence teams updated
There’s lots of movement to catch up on in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office, including the departure of senior adviser Olivier Duchesneau and the addition of James Armbruster as the PM’s new special assistant. Duchesneau left the PMO at the end of January after two years as a senior adviser. A former press secretary to […]
It’s time to put an end to the horrors our elders endure
When eldercare makes headlines in Canada, it’s usually news of the worst kind. On June 26, 2017, former nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer was sentenced to life in prison for murdering eight vulnerable elders in care homes where she worked in southwestern Ontario. The inquiry that followed concluded that, had she not confessed, Wettlaufer would never have […]
Canadians react with dismay, outrage to killing of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
On May 11, Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot in the head by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank while wearing a press vest, a helmet, and standing with three other journalists, Al Jazeera reported. Another Al Jazeera journalist, Ali al-Samoudi, was also shot in the back, and survived. Israel responded to […]
Celebrate Canadian writers in style at Politics and the Pen on Tuesday, May 17
MONDAY, MAY 16 Mayor’s Breakfast with David L. Cohen—U.S. Ambassador to Canada David L. Cohen will be the special guest at the Mayor’s Breakfast, hosted by the Ottawa Board of Trade and the Ottawa Business Journal. This event will take place at Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Ave. W. Monday, May 16, 7-9 a.m. Tickets available […]
China’s growing authoritarianism is a global story
Dear Joanna Chiu, I am (Dan). I am from China. I just graduated from (a Quebec university). I hesitated for a whole night before deciding to write this email … Now I am living in Canada, but I am living with fear from the Chinese government. Dan, whose name I’ve changed to protect his identity, […]
‘I wrote it because Canadians have forgotten Flora MacDonald’: Geoffrey Stevens
Following the 1979 election, what I needed most was to get out of Ottawa and away from the crazy, swirling rumour mill during the government transition. While Joe Clark worked on his cabinet, I returned to “my” convent in St Georges Ouest, telling people I wanted to work on my French. I was not worried. […]
‘We should never underestimate China,’ say authors of The Two Michaels, Blanchfield and Hampson
TEN DAYS AFTER BEING detained by Canadian authorities in Vancouver, and one day after Michael Kovrig was detained, Trump said publicly he “would certainly intervene” in the Justice Department’s case against Meng if it helped him win a favourable trade deal with China. Trump’s Dec. 11, 2018, interview with Reuters made it clear that in […]
‘Growing political polarization will make it increasingly difficult to reach political consensus on our best paths forward’: Poloz
A particularly interesting situation occurs when two tectonic plates are grinding past each other. Much of the time, the plates drift in this way without major incident. Perhaps the most famous of these boundaries is the San Andreas fault that runs through California, heading inland from the Pacific Ocean at San Francisco and angling south […]
