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Heather Peterson, left, and Cathy Graham have been helping the Liberal Party machine since the late 1970s. Today, they bring their contacts and political instincts to help the next generation of Liberal politicians. Photograph courtesy of Jacquie LaRocque

Liberal matriarchs Heather Peterson, Cathy Graham lend experienced hands to next generation of politicians

Plus: The Hill Times team placed first in six categories in the Ontario Community Newspaper Awards, and Eric Walsh has been tapped to be our new envoy to Brazil.

Omer Aziz
Omer Aziz, left, has recently left his communications role at the Prime Minister's Office to promote his latest book, Shadows of the Republic: The Rebirth of Fascism in America. Photograph courtesy of Broadleaf Books

Omer Aziz leaves PMO to focus on new book about fascism, Stephen King says the book ‘should be an alarm bell announcing that the American house is on fire’

Also: Minister LeBlanc and his Mexican counterpart will speak in Montreal next month, ex-Power Play host Don Martin shares good news about his health, and polling shows U.S. President Trump’s popularity is taking a hit.

Heard on the hill

Elise Maiolino
Dr. Elise Maiolino, a former adviser to then-prime minister Justin Trudeau, has penned a memoir, On the Inside: Fieldnotes from the Prime Minister’s Office & Silicon Valley. Photograph courtesy of LinkedIn

‘It’s not a tell-all, and not a takedown’: Elise Maiolino, ex-Trudeau adviser, has written a memoir

Also: Martha Wainwright and Mark Carney are each other’s biggest fans, former Liberal minister Navdeep Bains to exit Rogers next month, and the Latin American Film Festival opens this weekend in Ottawa.

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Serbian Ambassador Stefan Tomašević addresses guests gathered to celebrate his country’s national day at the Sir John A. Macdonald Building on Feb. 12. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
Dr. Jean-Charles Le Vallée, the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture Canada’s country representative, attended the IICA's year-end reception in Ottawa on Dec. 10, 2025. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia
The three byelection winners were welcomed on April 15 by a cheering crowd of Liberal MPs for the first caucus meeting in West Block following their April 13 victories. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

The Liberals swept all three April 13 byelections, bringing their number to 174 MPs, and giving the party a two-seat majority cushion.

Liberal caucus cheers incoming MP trio after byelection wins

photo of the day

Indigenous Services MinisterMandy Gull-Masty holds a press conference in the National Press Theatre on March 30, 2026, about an $8.5-billion agreement between the federal government and First Nations in Ontario on child welfare. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

from the hill times archives

Bill Graham, pictured in 2006 when he was the interim Liberal leader following Paul Martin’s defeat. Graham, a former federal Liberal foreign affairs minister and defence minister, died on Sunday, Aug. 7, at the 83, of cancer.

BOOKS, BIG IDEAS, Q&AS

Then-U.S. president Richard Nixon, left, and then-prime minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau inside the Prime Minister's Office in Centre Block on April 14, 1972. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

The Coutts Diaries is the most revealing book ever written about Canadian politics

This is a previously unseen view of Pierre Trudeau, one that is sure to alter your opinions of him. It is an unvarnished look inside the government that brought you wage and price controls, the Charter of Rights, and the National Energy Program. And it is a darkly moving account of the life of a senior political staffer.

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