Laura Ryckewaert

Plus, Public Safety, Democratic Institutions, and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanc has a new policy adviser on his team.

‘I think it’ll take a little while to actually slow down,’ says the recently retired senator.

Plus, new staff have been added to the offices of Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu and Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Gary Anandasangaree.

With Chelsea Kusnick's exit, FedDev Ontario Minister Filomena Tassi has promoted a new director of communications.

Members of Parliament from across the country will be getting new phones, printers, computers, and network connection devices for their riding offices post-election.

Wyatt Westover is now press secretary to the employment minister, and Samantha Jerome was recently hired as a digital communications adviser.

Plus, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne is down a senior policy adviser.

The now-former senator recently sat down to talk everything from ‘herding cats’ in his early days as chief of staff to Preston Manning, to ‘plotting’ Senate modernization.

With five new ridings coming into play and many riding names and boundaries changing, the BOIE recently approved measures to help MPs with the post-election transition.

Plus, Jenna Ghassabeh has been promoted to lead PMO press secretary, and Veterans Affairs Minister Petitpas Taylor is down an Atlantic adviser.