Vandana Kattar-Miller among recent PMO exits
PMO director of operations, outreach, and planning Vandana Kattar-Miller left the top office, and the Hill, in late May. She spoke about her decision in a LinkedIn post, writing she had “mixed emotions” in announcing her last week on the Hill after more than a decade in politics. “I never imagined myself sitting in the […]
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Senator Black hosts a whisky shindig on the Hill
Canadian Senators Group Senator Rob Black (Ontario) hosted the final reception of the season on June 15, in Room 325 of the Wellington Building, to showcase grains and oilseed farmers and, as the Irish poets call it, that golden-brown “elixir of life and philosophers stone” they produce: “whisky me boys.” The Grain Farmers of Ontario, […]
Shindig for Chris Hall happens Monday night at the Métropolitain Brasserie
MONDAY, JUNE 20 House Sitting—The House will sit June 20-June 23. It will break for the summer on June 23 and will return on Sept. 19 and will sit Sept. 19-Oct. 7, will break for one week, Oct. 10-Oct. 14, and will sit for three straight weeks, Oct. 17-Nov. 4. It will take a one-week […]
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Something within Me, Michael Wilson’s memoirs released, posthumously
Michael Wilson, who served under Progressive Conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney as finance minister from 1984 to 1991, international trade minister from 1991 to 1993, and was a key negotiator of the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement in 1987, had his memoirs published, posthumously. Something within Me: A Personal and Political Memoir, published by Aevo UTP, was completed […]
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Senator Black hosts whiskey shindig
On June 15, Canadian Senators Group Senator Rob Black hosted the final reception of the season, to showcase grains and oilseed farmers.The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia Münster NDP MP Alistair MacGregor left, Sen. Robert Black, Brendan Byrne of the Grain Farmers of Ontario, and Liberal MP Frances Drouin. The Hill Times photograph by Cynthia […]
Veteran Conservative staffer Martin Bélanger exits the Hill after 16 years
After working under three Conservative leaders, and two interim ones, senior Conservative staffer Martin Bélanger officially bid farewell to Parliament Hill on June 10. Bélanger was most recently a deputy chief of staff and senior Quebec adviser in the Conservative Official Opposition Leader’s Office (OLO), to both former leader Erin O’Toole and interim leader Candice […]
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