Canada struck ‘good balance’ in approach with China, says new U.K. envoy
The United Kingdom’s newest envoy to Canada says London isn’t worried about how Canada has handled its relationship with Beijing. The U.K. recently entered into a national security pact with the United States and Australia (AUKUS) in hopes to deter the growing reach of Beijing in the Indo-Pacific. Canada—a traditional Five Eyes ally with the […]
Hill residential school memorial removed
The shoes and stuffed animals put in front of Centre Block to honour the lives of lost residential school children, placed in the summer amid a flurry of discoveries of unmarked graves, have been taken down as of Oct. 22, ahead of an encroaching winter that looks set to drizzle the city in a melancholic […]
CBC News to go full throttle on climate coverage, says Fenlon; Senators Pate and Moodie to talk about ISG life
CBC News plans to go full throttle, or the full monty (give it everything they’ve got), on covering the climate change catastrophe, BRODIE FENLON, editor in chief and executive director of daily news for CBC News, announced last Monday. “The consequences of increased greenhouse gas emissions from human activity should be a surprise to no one: […]
de Adder’s Take: 10-25-2021
Trudeau’s new cabinet to be sworn in Tuesday, Oct. 26, at Rideau Hall
MONDAY, OCT. 25 In Person: A Conversation with Senator Pate and Senator Moodie—ISG Senators Kim Pate and Rosemary Moodie will discuss their experiences as independent Senators, part of the Jean-Luc Pepin Research Chair’s “In Person” series hosted by the University of Ottawa. Monday, Oct. 25, 6-7 p.m. Register via Eventbrite. TUESDAY, OCT. 26 Cabinet Swearing-In […]
From The Hill Times’ Photo Archives
Former Liberal minister makes history in Edmonton mayoral race
Former Liberal cabinet minister Amarjeet Sohi has returned to his municipal political roots. Mr. Sohi, who was the MP for Edmonton Mill Woods, Alta., from 2015 to 2019, was elected Oct. 18 as the new mayor of Edmonton. He won the federal riding in 2015 by a razor-thin margin of 92 votes, besting then-Conservative cabinet […]
‘I did not stop and I did not die’: Rwandan recounts surviving the genocide in his book Die Walking: A Child’s Journey Through Genocide
Messengers moved quickly and quietly between tents: a band of rebel scouts had been apprehended near the camp, and they had confessed that an attack was imminent. We must be ready to leave at a moment’s notice. By now we had sold or lost most of our possessions, so there was not much packing to […]
No wetsuits allowed: McKenna celebrates 50th with a splash as she looks to post-Hill life
What better way for an avid swimmer to mark a milestone birthday during a pandemic than swimming the five Great Lakes, and the Atlantic, Pacific, and Arctic oceans—all without a wetsuit? So figured outgoing Liberal minister Catherine McKenna, who recently completed a swimming challenge to celebrate her 50th birthday and raise money for the non-profit, […]
Wilson-Raybould to talk about her book, ‘Indian’ in the Cabinet on Oct. 18 at Toronto Public Library
MONDAY, OCT. 18 Jody Wilson-Raybould: “Indian” in the Cabinet—Former Liberal cabinet minister Jody Wilson-Raybould will discuss her memoir ‘Indian’ in the Cabinet: Speaking Truth to Power, hosted by the Toronto Public Library. Wilson-Raybould’s book recounts her journey to Ottawa, her challenges with enacting change while in cabinet and the important lessons that now inform her […]
