Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe, left, and Congolese Ambassador Appolinaire Aya attend Jamaica’s flag-raising ceremony at City Hall on Aug. 6. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Jamaica hoists its colours

Former Dutch parliamentarian, activist, and author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, pictured in Ottawa in 2010, will discuss the complex intersection of religion and her public life at the 2026 Ian Shugart Lecture in Calgary on Oct. 8. The Hill Times file photograph

Ayaan Hirsi Ali to give Shugart Lecture in Calgary on Oct. 8

Also, Conservative MPs register their push to keep Alberta in Canada, ex-Liberal MP Sven Spengemann honours his late wife Kirsty Duncan with an epic climb, and a new book coming this winter explores #Election2025.

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.