Conservative Party leadership debates happen June 17 (French) and June 18 (English) in Toronto
MONDAY, JUNE 15 House Sitting—The House is suspended until Wednesday, June 17. During this adjournment time, a Special COVID-19 Pandemic Committee has been established, composed of all members of the House, and will meet on an expanded schedule of Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays until June 18. As per a government motion tabled May 25, […]
Immigration Minister Mendicino hires new Ontario, Quebec assistants
Immigration, Citizenship, and Refugee Minister Marco Mendicino recently hired on two new regional advisers to his office, including Tanveer Sandhu as a special assistant for Ontario regional affairs. Mr. Sandhu started on the job in mid-May and is a former assistant to Liberal MP Kamal Khera, who’s represented Brampton West, Ont., since 2015. He worked […]
Canada to virtually host fifth ministerial meeting of the Ottawa Group on WTO reform
As the World Trade Organization comes under heightened strain due to increasingly protectionist global actors during the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada is brining together 12 other members of the Ottawa Group in order to work towards building consensus around WTO reforms. Canada will host the Ottawa Group’s fifth ministerial meeting on June 15. Members of the […]
AFN’s Perry Bellegarde to join forces with Prince Charles on ‘The Great Reset’
Assembly of First Nations National Chief Perry Bellegarde is helping the heir apparent to the British throne in his campaign to promote sustainable growth as the world rebounds from the COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking to a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum earlier this month, Prince Charles laid out his plan for “The Great Reset” to take […]
New human resources adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office
There’s a new human resources adviser in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Office, with the recent addition of Melissa George. Ms. George officially joined the top office last week, moving to Ottawa from Toronto, where until recently she’d spent the last two years working as an associate business ethics consultant for the Workplace Safety and Insurance […]
Fadden to moderate ‘All Five Eyes on 5G’ webinar on June 8 at 3 p.m.
MONDAY, JUNE 8 House Not Sitting—The House is suspended until Wednesday, June 17. However, during this adjournment time, a Special COVID-19 Pandemic Committee has been established, composed of all members of the House, and will meet on an expanded schedule of Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays until June 18. As per a government motion tabled […]
Tim Cook’s new book will look at how Canada has remembered World War II
One of Canada’s most prominent historians has penned a book that is looking at how Canadians have remembered the Second World War in the three quarters of a century since it ended. Tim Cook‘s The Fight for History: 75 Years of Forgetting, Remembering, and Remaking Canada’s Second World War will be released in September. “The […]
‘Tedium and tiredness’ setting in on Trudeau’s daily press conferences, PM should consider cutting them down, say political players
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s almost daily press conferences were very valuable and useful in the early weeks of COVID-19, but he should now consider holding them only when he has something important to announce, or run the risk of overexposure. “There is the issue of overexposure, I don’t think that’s been an issue so far,” […]
After nearly three decades on the Hill, ‘fearless’ CBC reporter Julie Van Dusen takes a step back
With more than 25 years under her belt as a CBC reporter on Parliament Hill, Julie Van Dusen has lived and breathed politics like few others, having covered political conventions and elections, leadership races and state visits, and spending countless hours in Centre Block chasing down MPs and scrumming policy-makers of all stripes. Until recently, […]
Great defining event of 21st century expected to occur in three decades
The great defining event of the 21st century—one of the great defining events in human history—will occur in three decades, give or take, when the global population starts to decline. Once that decline begins, it will never end. We do not face the challenge of a population bomb, so rampant in the popular imagination, but […]
