Marlo Glass is a news reporter covering the federal public service and all things newsworthy on Parliament Hill. She is deputy digital editor for The Hill Times. With a background in breaking news, Glass’ career spans over several cities including Ottawa, Saint John, and Halifax. Send tips to mglass@hilltimes.com.
The B.C. Conservatives should create the ‘David Eby Award, for single-handedly rescuing the Conservative Party and putting them in power with a majority government. Who would have imagined it?’ says Green Leader Elizabeth May.
The military’s investigation into the Wainwright tragedy will ‘really look at the policies and procedures and rules that we had in place’ and whether they are sufficient, says one retired official, as the top military commander says the findings will be made public.
This week we have a dispatch from a picket line, a wrongdoing roundup at Health Canada, a case of digital transformation in action, and more.
Plus, the budget is coming on Nov. 5.
Senator Rebecca Patterson, a military veteran, says the tragedy is a reminder of the reality that serving in the military is inherently dangerous even during training, after last Saturday’s fire killed four soldiers and injured dozens more.
Despite representing nearly 90 per cent of Alberta’s ridings, Conservatives have been ‘largely silent’ during the referendum, said Duanne Bratt, a Calgary-based political science professor, while the province’s lone NDP MP made a failed bid for an emergency debate in the House.
This week, we bring you details of Dayforce’s testing holdup, a red-tape reduction recipe, and the Treasury Board president’s take on RTO.
The United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism says she ‘repeatedly’ heard concerns from Indigenous people that their right to free, prior, and informed consent is not consistently implemented across Canada.
Official Languages Commissioner Kelly Burke’s inaugural annual report also recommended mandatory language training for managers by March 2028.
This week, we’re looking at the Defence Investment Agency, Canada Energy Regulator, Indigenous Services Canada, and Ottawa’s new red tape reduction bill.
Plus, Sean Fraser says the government will move to permanently ban MAID for mental illness.
Conservative MP Dane Lloyd, his party’s lead in convincing Albertans not to secede from Canada, says separatists meeting with U.S. officials, reportedly offering up natural resources in exchange for support in leaving Canada, is ‘very concerning.’
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Some departments reporting granular data on specific instances of misbehaviour, and others broadly summarize founded and unfounded cases, an approach that one ethics researcher says suggests ‘the ship has sailed’ on the exercise.
RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme told MPs that his mandate is to hire 750 new police officers over three years, as well as 250 public servants to support federal policing. This includes a hiring target of 350 for the first year, he said.
Green Leader Elizabeth May said she hopes David Eby is ‘punished’ by voters for his snap election call, Conservative MP Frank Caputo called the move ‘100 per cent opportunistic,’ while Liberal MP Taleeb Noormohamed said any premier has the right to call an election.
