CTV’s McGregor gets into shoving match after cameraman pushed by Lich supporters outside Ottawa courthouse
In his ongoing coverage of the ‘Freedom Convoy’ and the fallout from the event that dominated life in downtown Ottawa back in February, CTV National News reporter Glen McGregor got into a shoving match with one of the supporters of ‘Freedom Convoy’ organizer Tamara Lich outside the Ottawa courthouse on July 26, following Lich’s release on […]
String of staff additions, one departure for Agriculture Minister Bibeau
Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau has added a number of staff to her team since Hill Climbers last checked in at the start of the year, including Olivia Scieur-Aparicio, who started as the minister’s new operations and tour manager in June. Scieur-Aparicio spent the last almost two years as an assistant to Quebec Liberal MP Élisabeth […]
Conservative Party moves into new headquarters
The Conservative Party of Canada has a new home, just a few minutes walk from the Varette Building in downtown Ottawa, where the core team spent more than a quarter of a century. “Later this week, @CPC_HQ says #farewellvarette to 130 Albert St., where the party and its predecessors have had space for more than […]
What the heck is happening with the economy? The Pearson Centre digs in on July 27
SUNDAY, JULY 24—FRIDAY, JULY 29 Pope’s Visit to Canada—Pope Francis will visit Canada to apologize to Indigenous people for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s state-run residential schools. The visit will include stops in Edmonton, where he will say mass at Commonwealth Stadium; Maskwacis, Alta., home of the former Ermineskin Residential School; Lac Ste. Anne, […]
Official visits to the Hill
Canadian and American flags frame then-U.S. vice-president Mike Pence and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during a press conference during Pence’s visit to Ottawa to sign the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement on May 30, 2019.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade King Abdullah II of Jordan meets with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in Ottawa on Nov. […]
Staff shuffle in Natural Resources Minister Wilkinson’s office
There’s been some shuffling of the deck in the office of Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson, with a number of staff taking on new roles, including James Hutchingame, who’s now covering Atlantic regional affairs. Hutchingame was previously covering the Ontario desk for Wilkinson while also serving as assistant to the minister’s parliamentary secretary—a role he […]
De Adder’s Take: 07-25-2022
Pope Francis visiting Canada until July 29
MONDAY, JULY 25 House Not Sitting—The House will return on Sept. 19, sitting until Oct. 7. It will break for one week, Oct. 10-14, and will sit for three straight weeks, Oct. 17-Nov. 4. It will take a one-week break, Nov. 7-11. It will return on Nov. 14 and will sit for five straight weeks, […]
Trudeau gets a haircut and people go bonkers
Whenever Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pulls out some funky socks, decides to grow a beard, or most recently, as many of us tend to do, get a summer haircut, people take notice—and notice they did when the prime minister debuted his new, short haircut in Chelsea, Que., last week. Trudeau has long taken the cake […]
Hill Climbers: PMO lands a new public opinion research head
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has found a new manager of research for his office, with former Earnscliffe consultant Hilary Martin recently taking on the role. Martin spent the last almost six years working for the Earnscliffe Strategy Group in Ottawa, starting as a public opinion research associate in the fall of 2016. She was promoted […]
