Not sure if anything is planned to mark the occasion - but this month marks 65 years since Gabrielle Savard became the first woman to serve as a committee clerk in the Commons. She's pictured here in 1962.
Delighted that over 100 people have already registered to attend the book launch on June 18th!
See you all in 8 days at Library and Archives :)
More info: www.canada.ca/en/library-a...
Still looking for speakers for my National Public Service Week panel event: “The plight of the public service personality hire: bringing personality to a place not known for having one”
If you self-identify as a public service personality hire, please slide into the DMs :)
Two weeks until the official release of my book "Unparliamentary: Tales from Canada’s Colourful Parliamentary Past"!
One rejected cover: This 1972 editorial cartoon in the Calgary Herald after the PM's scandalous utterance in Hansard. No, not that one. This was for "G-d Damn"
Canadian Parliamentary videos that exist: gymnasts perform in the Senate
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - June 10, 1986: Commons Speaker Bosley orders an investigation into allegations a senior Parliament Hill security office vandialized cars on Parliament Hill and peddled illegal parking passes.
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - June 9, 1891: Thousands of Canadians come to Parliament Hill to pay their respects to Sir John A. Macdonald, Canada's first prime minister, as he lay in state in the Senate Chamber before his funeral.
On this day in Canadian parliamentary history - June 8, 1954: The Speaker announces plans for a bust of the first woman MP, Agnes Macphail. The work was unveiled in 1955 in the presence of (and pictured here) Macphail's sisters.
Canada’s best judicial mascots, ranked
1) Amicus, the Supreme Court of Canada’s owl
2 (tie) the Federal Courts - Fred the Fox and Tax Court Terry the Tapir
4) Manitoba Court of Appeal - Merv the Moose
5) The Régie du logement’s renard, Renaud
*2-5 may not exist.. yet :p
Are you even a parliament nerd if you don’t stop by during Doors Open Ottawa?
