Sen. Sinclair to talk about racial inequality and disparity on Oct. 6, hosted by Aksis: Edmonton’s Aboriginal Business and Professional Association
MONDAY, OCT. 5 House Sitting—The House of Commons is sitting in a hybrid format right now during the pandemic, with most MPs connecting remotely. But the House is scheduled to sit Monday, Oct. 5 and every weekday until Friday Oct. 9. It’s scheduled to take a one-week break, Oct. 12-16, and will then sit again […]
Crunchie bar and Doritos: NDP MP Green shares how he got by during Wednesday’s early-morning House vote
Apparently, politicians love their Doritos, the flavoured tortilla chips invented in a Disneyland restaurant in the 1960s, and thanks to a 3 a.m. House of Commons vote Wednesday night on the federal government’s latest pandemic-aid bill, Hill watchers got a taste of where NDP MP Matthew Green lands on the great Doritos debate. No stranger […]
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Rona Ambrose tells her story during virtual Pink Tea talk on Oct. 2
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 30 EU-Canada Business Summit—Minister of Small Business, Export Promotion, and International Trade Mary Ng will deliver remarks at the EU-Canada Business Summit—a one-day event hosted by the Canada-Europe Economic Chamber. This year’s topics are Energy and the Environment, Security and Transport, International Trade and Mobility, and Manufacturers and Artificial Intelligence. Other speakers include […]
First virtual Commons vote featured lags and laughs
The House of Commons held its first hybrid in-person/remote recorded division on Sept. 28, with a vote on a Bloc Québécois change to a Conservative amendment to the House’s Address in Reply to the Speech from the Throne. It wasn’t without a few hiccups. A world-wide Microsoft outage delayed the vote by more than 30 […]
Cudmore joins Public Safety Minister Blair’s team
James Cudmore is back on Parliament Hill, this time as director of communications to Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair. Mr. Cudmore marked his return roughly two weeks ago, after being on what he described on LinkedIn as a “sabbatical” since exiting as director of policy to the democratic institutions minister shortly after the […]
The New York Times’ White House reporter Maggie Haberman talks about covering Trump behind the scenes, at Munk Dialogues on Sept. 30
MONDAY, SEPT. 28 House Sitting—The House of Commons is sitting in a hybrid format right now during the pandemic, with most MPs connecting remotely. But the House is scheduled to sit Monday, Sept. 28 and every weekday until Friday Oct. 9. It’s scheduled to take a one-week break, Oct. 12-16, and will then sit again […]
O’Toole describes himself as a ‘smartass’ kid, talks about how his mother’s death when he was a young boy ‘became a driving force in my life’ in his first ‘get-to-know-me’ ads
New Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole and his team pushed out a number of “get-to-know-me” videos last week in an effort to define him before the Liberals do, detailing how he went from a self-described “smartass” kid, to becoming a federal party leader of a 121-member caucus hoping to defeat Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in the […]
Chiefs of staff on the move: Champagne, Joly, MacAulay change top staffers as new session of Parliament begins
Foreign Affairs Minister François-Philippe Champagne hired a new chief of staff in his office as of last week, after Daniel Lauzon moved from his post helming Economic Development and Official Languages Minister Mélanie Joly’s office to take on the job. Mr. Lauzon’s first day in Mr. Champagne’s office was Sept. 21. He replaces Laurence Deschamps-Laporte, whose time in […]
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