The loneliest ambassador in Ottawa: Afghan envoy vows to press on without a government
Cut off from his former bosses in Kabul after the fall of the Afghan government, Ambassador Hassan Soroosh is steadfast that he will continue representing the Afghan people in Ottawa as funds dwindle. A dozen weeks since the Taliban took control of the Afghan capital, the Afghanistan Embassy in Canada has reduced operations, but remains […]
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Liberal caucus meets for first official post-election debrief
Justin Prime Minister Justin Trudeau addresses the Liberal national caucus in the West Block on Nov. 8, 2021, for its first formal post-election meeting. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade Justin Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives to deliver remarks to open the Liberal national caucus meeting in West Block on Nov. 8, 2021. He […]
International Trade Minister Ng locks in senior staff team
International Trade, Export Promotion, Small Business, and Economic Development Minister Mary Ng recently confirmed her senior staff team, with all directors in her office—all of whom are women—continuing in their pre-shuffle posts. Lesley Sherban is deputy chief of staff and director of operations to the minister. She’s been working for Ms. Ng since March 2018, […]
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de Adder’s Take: 11-08-2021
Toronto Global Forum hosts its 15th edition Nov. 8-10
MONDAY, NOV. 8–FRIDAY, NOV. 12 UN Climate Conference UNFCCC COP 26—The 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) to the UNFCCC will take place from Monday, Nov. 1 to Friday, Nov. 12, in Glasgow, U.K. Contact: UNFCCC Secretariat by e-mail at secretariat@unfccc.int; https://unfccc.int/calendar MONDAY, NOV. 8—WEDNESDAY, NOV. 10 Toronto Global Forum—The Toronto Global Forum hosts […]
House of Anansi to publish unauthorized biography on Chrystia Freeland in 2023
House of Anansi Press will be publishing an unauthorized biography in 2023 on Chrystia Freeland, Chrystia: From Peace River to Parliament Hill, by Catherine Tsalikis. It announced the news last week through a press a release headlined, “Major biography of the most powerful woman in Canadian politics.” The author is a foreign policy journalist who has […]
Don Oliver, on his life as Canada’s first Black man appointed to the Senate
Former Conservative Senator Donald Oliver, 82, who was the first Black man appointed to the Upper Chamber in 1990, grew up in the only Black family in Wolfville, N.S. His great grandparents fled slavery in the U.S., and he was raised to “work hard, be humble, love the Lord, and do all you can to help […]
Claire Seaborn named chief of staff to Natural Resources Minister Wilkinson
New Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson is making headway in getting his office into shape, and recently hired Claire Seaborn to serve as his chief of staff. Ms. Seaborn has spent most of the last three years working for now former Liberal minister Catherine McKenna, starting in September 2018 as a senior adviser for legal and […]
