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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From The Hill Times’ Photo Archives
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 […]
Senate offers rendition of Christmas poem as Upper Chamber closes for the season
The House isn’t the only Chamber that closed its doors for the holidays with a little Christmas cheer. Before Independent Senator Yuen Pau Woo launched into verse, he offered apologies to the famous poem’s author, Clement Clarke Moore, for taking liberties with both the timeline and the language. “’Twas the week before Christmas,” Sen. Woo […]
The Hill Times’ List of 100 Best Books in 2020
Acadian Driftwood: One Family and the Great Expulsion, by Tyler LeBlanc, Goose Lane Editions, 184pp., $19.95 A History of My Brief Body, by Billy-Ray Belcourt, Penguin Random House Canada, 192pp., $25 An Alphabet for Joanna: A Portrait of My Mother in 26 Fragments, by Damian Rogers, Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 344pp., $32.95 An Autobiography of […]
A look at the team behind Bloc Québécois Leader Blanchet
The Bloc Québécois regained recognized party status in the House of Commons with the 2019 election, in turn giving the caucus access to central funds to run a leader’s office and research bureau, among other things, and it’s high time Hill Climbers dives into the team behind Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet and his caucus. Between […]
Vox populi: authors on their books
Desmond Cole The Skin We’re In: A Year of Black Resistance and Power “This book is very much an effort to try and refocus us, to say, ‘If we weren’t talking about the U.S., if we just talked about Black life in Canada on its own merits, what do we see?’ ” Mr. Cole […]
House of Commons adjourned until Jan. 25, but political Ottawa is still busy
MONDAY, DEC. 21 Moyra Davey: The Faithful—National Gallery of Canada hosts this new exhibition, Moyra Davey: The Faithful, featuring the work of one of Canada’s most innovative conceptual artists, on now until Jan. 3, 2021. National Gallery of Canada, 380 Sussex Dr., Ottawa. This new exhibition features 54 photographs and six films by Davey, along […]
