Parliament Hill is pictured from the Portage Bridge in Downtown Ottawa on May 20, 2026. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Plus, Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu has a job opening in her own office following the recent exit of executive assistant Gillian Livingston.
Plus: Parliamentarians pay tribute on June 1 to former colleagues who died last year, the Mole Mobile is offering skin cancer screenings on the Hill later this week, and politicians are gripped with hockey fever as Canadian teams reach the top of their leagues.
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Author Maggie Helwig, who wrote Encampment: Resistance, Grace, and An Unhoused Community, won the $40,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Award for the Best Political Book of the Year.
‘If you have a purpose, then you become resilient. Then you want to fight for something. But if you don’t have a purpose … I have seen people in isolation lose their mind because they just didn’t want to be there and didn’t know why they were there,’ says Sirous Houshmand, author of The Darkest Night Brings Longer Days.
