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Chelsea Nash

Chelsea Nash is The Hill Times’ acting digital editor. Previously, she was The Hill Times’ deputy editor and reporter covering immigration, foreign affairs, agriculture and food, and the NDP. She has one gold and one silver Canadian Community Newspaper Award, and one silver Canadian Online Publishing Award.


Indigenous communities battle for fire safety

Plus, the Tories demand more meetings.

Summer House committee meetings are running hot

Plus, who let the bots out?

Labour minister’s trial-by-fire

Plus, the spotlight is back on ArriveCan.

The U.K.’s far-right melts down

Plus, Harris picks a veep.

A timeline of political violence and rising security on Parliament Hill since 2014

Death threats, arson, violent imagery, vandalism, and more: Canadian politics is becoming more violent, MPs say.

feature | BY CHELSEA NASH | August 5, 2024

Ready, set, campaign

Plus, Sport Minister Carla Qualtrough responds to the women’s soccer team spying scandal.

Feds respond to Jasper wildfires

Plus, Canada’s homicide rate went down from 2022 to 2023.

Right-wing media follows Trudeau on vacation

Plus, Joe Biden’s parting message.

Macklem’s decision day

Plus, behind the Conservatives’ fight for summer committee meetings. 

Pierre Poilievre

‘Pierre’s record’: Liberals try to see ‘what sticks’ to Poilievre

Plus, getting to the bottom of a Conservative MP’s claim that IRCC tried to censor him. 

Canadian politics is ‘not safe’ right now, and MPs ‘are in harm’s way’: former public safety minister

‘Many’ MPs work ‘in a perpetual state of fear,’ says Liberal MP Marco Mendicino. NDP MP Charlie Angus was recently accosted at a beach in his riding. House Sgt.-at-Arms Patrick McDonell said harassment of MPs has increased almost 800 per cent in the last five years. Countless MPs, cabinet ministers, party leaders, and the prime minister have been subjected to threats and death threats. This should not be normal.

news | BY CHELSEA NASH | July 22, 2024

Pressure works

Plus, the PM tries to have a non-scandalous vacation.

Justin Trudeau

PMO won’t speculate on rumours about itself

Plus, a fact-check on the origins of Trudeau’s housing policy.

Employment Minister Randy Boissonnault

MPs grill former Boissonnault business associates

Plus, the premiers deliver their verdict from Halifax.

Gary Anandasangaree

Whitecap apology ‘coming for a long time’

Plus, Poilievre ‘happy’ suspected Trump shooter is dead.

Is populism popular in Canada? Researchers say yes

Populist, far-right politicians have not only made gains in France, but are becoming a stronger threat across Europe and in the United States. In Canada, ‘There’s a bit of collective denial,’ says pollster Frank Graves.

news | BY CHELSEA NASH | July 8, 2024