Natural Resources Minister O’Regan adds policy adviser to team

Natural Resources Minister Seamus O’Regan has a new policy adviser, with Blake Oliver recently joining his team fresh from Transport Minister Omar Alghabra’s office. Up until April 9, Ms. Oliver had been an Ontario regional affairs adviser and policy adviser, tackling transportation files on rail and road, in the transport minister’s office since March 2020, […]
Solutions to reconcile security and freedom deserve to be better known, says Maurice Cusson, author of Donner-nominated book

Since the dawn of time, crime and despotism have been a threat to security and freedom. And everywhere, people have always had to contend with criminals and despots in defence of their security and freedom. How can free people live together without one person’s freedom infringing on that of another’s and without the two conflicting […]
Ministers McKenna, Murray join MPs to talk environmental leadership at GreenPAC event

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 The Five Pillars of the Inherent Right to Self-Government—The Institute of Public Administration of Canada hosts “The Five Pillars of the Inherent Right to Self-Government,” the second part of its Rebuilding First Nations Governance Series featuring five one-hour webinars exploring the themes behind Rebuilding First Nations Governance—a community-led, multi-partner research project to […]
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de Adder’s Take: 04-26-2021

‘Social media are dysfunctional to the overall health of civil society and democracy’: Ronald Deibert, author of Donner-nominated Reset

Look at that device in your hand. No, really, take a good, long look at it. You carry it around with you wherever you go. You sleep with it, work with it, run with it, you play games on it. You depend on it, and panic when you can’t find it. It links you to […]
Bob Rae to talk about Myanmar and other global hotspots on Monday, April 26

MONDAY, APRIL 26 House Sitting—The House is sitting in a hybrid format during the pandemic, with most MPs connecting remotely. It’s scheduled to sit every weekday for the next few weeks, April 26-May 14. It will take a one-week break after that, from May 17-May 24. It will sit May 25 every weekday until Wednesday, […]
Doctor tweets ‘immunized the coolest MP in our family practice’: Jagmeet Singh gets his AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh appears to have won the race among federal political party leaders, being the first to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Mr. Singh, 42, got his first AstraZeneca jab at a family practice in Ottawa last week. “This just happened: Immunized the coolest Member of Parliament in our family practice,” tweeted Dr. Nili […]
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New consul in Nunavut even more essential without ability to travel to the North, says Danish envoy

Providing a voice for an ambassador stuck in Ottawa as a result of public health measures, Denmark named a new honorary consul to Iqaluit last month. Originally from Greenland, Navarana Beveridge was appointed by Queen Margrethe II of Denmark to the new post on March 5. Danish Ambassador to Canada Hanne Fugl Eskjær told The […]