Elevate’s Girls on the Hill program brings rising leaders to Ottawa on July 23

MONDAY, JULY 21—WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 Council of the Federation Summer Meeting—Ontario Premier Doug Ford, chair of the Council of the Federation, will host the premiers’ 2025 summer meeting. Monday, July 21, to Wednesday, July 23, at Deerhurst Resort, Huntsville, Ont. Details: canadaspremiers.ca. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 Elevate Girls on the Hill—Elevate International hosts a leadership forum that […]
Muskoka politics

Plus, Poilievre backs the Convoy organizers ahead of sentencing.
Environment Minister Dabrusin taps Matthew Paisley as policy director

Plus, Kieran Steede has been named director of operations and international affairs, and former PMO spokesperson Jenna Ghassabeh is communications director.
Q&A | Cod quota ‘pressure is enormous’ on fisheries minister

‘This is an unsafe way to proceed, and puts at risk this really delicate, slow recovery’, says Ocean Canada’s Josh Laughren of the Liberal decision to double the northern cod quota.
Kazakhstan ambassador, Canadian counterpart to speak at July 21 webinar on bilateral relations

MONDAY, JULY 21 Webinar: ‘Canada-Kazakhstan Relations‘—The Embassy of Kazakhstan and the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy host a webinar, “Canada-Kazakhstan Relations: Seizing New Opportunities in a Changing World.” Participants include Kazakh Ambassador to Canada Dauletbek Kussainov; Canada’s Ambassador to Kazakhstan Christopher Duggan; Elena Zabudskaya, Business development officer, City of Greater Sudbury, Ont.; Darren Klinck, Kazakhstan’s […]
New York magazine unpacks Canada’s anti-American fury: ‘if our enemies now include Canada, we likely don’t have any friends left’

Also, Deborah Lyons steps back from anti-Semitism envoy role, a handful of Paul Martin-era staffers join Andrew Bevan’s new agency, and ex-Liberal MP Bryan May lands a new gig.
Premiers join forces in Huntsville

Plus, Prime Minister Mark Carney meets U.S. senators in Ottawa.
Take me out to the lawn bowling park

On a hot summer night on July 9, lawn bowlers came out to the Elmdale Lawn Bowling Club in Ottawa’s Civic Hospital neighbourhood to help raise money for Cystic Fibrosis Canada. It’s been an Ottawa tradition for morethan a decade, and thousands of people across the country have been taking part in Lawn Summer Nights […]
Ministers update public on wildfires

Plus, Canadian investors continued to buy more U.S. shares in May.
Carney vs. the chiefs

Plus, an unofficial India-Canada conference is happening in Ottawa today.