MP Don Davies goes live with Facebook baking session of his signature banana bread
NDP MP Don Davies hosted a live cooking session on Facebook over the holiday season, talking about a wide-ranging set of policy topics while walking viewers through a baking session of his signature holiday dish: banana bread. In previous years, Mr. Davies, who represents Vancouver Kingsway, B.C., has held a holiday open house in his constituency […]
Sen. Boehm to talk about impact of U.S. vote on Canadian public policy on Jan. 19
WEDNESDAY, JAN. 13 House Not Sitting—The House will likely be sitting in a hybrid format during the pandemic, with most MPs connecting remotely. It’s scheduled to return on Monday, Jan. 25-Feb. 5. Israel and Palestine: Future Directions in the Middle East—The Group of 78 hosts a webinar on “Israel and Palestine: Future Directions in the […]
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New year, new staff roster for International Trade Minister Ng, including Catenaro’s exit
Small Business, Export Promotion, and International Trade Minister Mary Ng is starting the new year with a couple of changes to her staff roster after recently bidding farewell to her director of communications, Eleanore Catenaro. Ms. Catenaro ended her time in the minister’s office last month after roughly a year on the job, starting in […]
Biden inauguration happens at noon Jan. 20 on Capitol Hill
MONDAY, JAN. 11 House Not Sitting—The House will likely be sitting in a hybrid format during the pandemic, with most MPs connecting remotely. It’s scheduled to return on Monday, Jan. 25-Feb. 5. It will take a one-week break and return on Tuesday, Feb. 16 and sit every weekday until Friday, Feb. 26. It will take […]
Global News’ Akin gets good uptake in probing MPs’ and hopeful politics’ travel plans, CTV News’ McGregor focuses on current 338
Parliament Hill’s Global News’ chief political correspondent David Akin could be onto something. The veteran reporter said he was “kind of thinking out loud” to his some 83,000 followers recently, when he tweeted that he’s going to be asking all election candidates when they last left the country and under what circumstances since the pandemic started last […]
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Then-governor general Michaëlle Jean, pictured at the Lester B. Pearson Building in Ottawa on Jan. 13, 2010, delivering a statement after the federal government responded to the devastating and catastrophic earthquake in Haiti. The earthquake, which happened on Jan. 12, 2010, left an estimated 220,000 to 300,000 people dead, three million people affected, and 250,000 […]
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Webster’s Newspapering a cracking good read with much to teach
Ever wondered about Chairman Mao Zedong’s sexual preferences, how to castrate a camel, or how many shots of vodka Nikita Khrushchev forced on Lester Pearson during a wild night by the Black Sea the two men spent when “Mike” was foreign minister? Curious about the top 10 stories of the millennium, history’s bad decisions, the […]
