Books & Big Ideas: a delicious package of reading
Dear Hill Times’ subscriber, In case you have a hankering to read more books, we put together The Hill Times’ List of the Top 100 Best Non-Fiction Canadian Books in 2019 along with all our book reviews in 2019, just for you and in one package. Enjoy reading! From Alicia Elliott’s A Mind Spread Out […]
2019: The Hill Times’ year in photos
The election of the new House Speaker gets underway on Dec. 5, 2019. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade Prime Minister meets with Richard Neal, the Democratic chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, along with then-foreign affairs minister Chrystia Freeland, in his West Block office on Nov. 6, 2019. The Hill Times […]
2019: The Hill Times’ year in pictures
The House of Commons chamber sits empty as Centre Block is emptied on Jan. 10, 2019 ahead of the move to West Block. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade Karen McCrimmon, the incumbent Liberal candidate in Kanata-Carleton at the time, canvases an apartment building in her Ottawa riding on Oct. 9, 2019. Ms. McCrimmon […]
Happy Trails: Craig Oliver and John Geddes bid adieu to the Hill
When Hill life resumes following the holiday break, some notable press gallery stalwarts won’t be around, including long-time CTV reporter Craig Oliver and veteran Maclean’s Ottawa bureau chief John Geddes. A reporter since 1957, Mr. Oliver has been around the Hill since 1974, starting during Pierre Trudeau‘s first Liberal government. Over the years, he served […]
Ecuador’s future is in mining, and Canada can play a big role, envoy says
With Canada as Ecuador’s “main” direct investor through mines and the extractive sector, the Latin American country’s ambassador says he sees opportunity for growth and an increased “political will” to formalize trade relationships. Though oil makes up half of the country’s exports and a quarter of its revenues, Diego Stacey said “we see that the […]
All cabinet chiefs of staff now named, 12 of 36 are former Trudeau PMO aides
All 36 members of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet now have chiefs of staff in place to run their ministerial offices, and one-third of them are former aides in Mr. Trudeau’s office as prime minister. But first, some prime minister’s office staffing news: executive director of communications and planning Kate Purchase will soon be leaving the […]
Power Play Martin’s party draws a crowd
There was a good crowd of friends and well wishers who turned up for Don Martin’s farewell soirée at the Métropolitain. The man of the hour, Don Martin. Don Martin listens to CTV’s illustrious Craig Oliver tell some stories. Former Conservative MP Lisa Raitt Former Globe columnist Hugh Winsor and Quebec Senator Dennis Dawson. CBC’s […]
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The Hill Times’ List of 100 Best Non-Fiction Canadian Books in 2019
Absent Mandate: Strategies and Choices in Canadian Elections, by Harold D. Clarke, Jane Jenson, Lawrence LeDuc and Jon H. Pammett, University of Toronto Press, 224 pp., $32.95. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground, by Alicia Elliott, Penguin Random House Canada, 240 pp., $25. Assessing Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Government: 353 Promises and a Mandate for […]
It is known: policy directors named for ministers Lebouthillier, Bibeau, Ng
Ministerial staffing on the Hill is coming along, with directors of policy now confirmed in the offices of International Trade and Small Business and Export Promotion Minister Mary Ng, Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, and National Revenue Minister Diane Lebouthillier. An avalanche of staffing news is expected soon, as ministers have until Dec. 20 to decide […]
