Laura Ryckewaert

Ex-MP and longtime client Will Amos says the Victoria Barber Shop is a ‘working-class’ Hill institution that should be respected and accommodated in future plans.

Plus, Jobs Minister Patty Hajdu has a job opening in her own office following the recent exit of executive assistant Gillian Livingston.

Plus, Steve Outhouse will soon once again be chief of staff to Pierre Poilievre, now in his office as official opposition leader.

A total of 19 riding name-change requests were included in Bill C-25, which is currently at committee stage in the House. The Senate begins its pre-study of the bill on May 27.

Alexander Fernandes has been promoted to associate director of communications, while deputy policy director Katharine Heus has left the PMO, among other changes.

Plus, AI and Digital Innovation Minister Evan Solomon is down a director of policy, and there are new hires in Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Rebecca Alty’s shop.

Rather than parsing individual Senator expense claims, Senator David Wells says AOVS has focused on ensuring that the systems that approve such claims are ‘sound.’

Plus, Secretary of State for Nature Nathalie Provost and Energy and Natural Resources Minister Tim Hodgson have new faces on their respective teams.

Manager of digital communications Dakota Burgin has left the justice office, as has Quebec regional adviser and assistant to the parliamentary secretary Roméo Ntwari.

Estimates suggest that, between the feds and provinces, ‘the duty to consult is triggered hundreds of thousands of times per year in Canada,' says one committee witness.