Christina Leadlay
@chleadlay.bsky.social
The Hill Times' engagement editor and "Heard on the Hill" columnist
Hurry! There's only one week left to take @hilltimes.com's annual All Politics Poll. Share your thoughts on the best and worst of Canadian politics in 2025. Poll closes Nov. 28.
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November 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Hurry! There's only one week left to take @hilltimes.com's annual All Politics Poll. Share your thoughts on the best and worst of Canadian politics in 2025. Poll closes Nov. 28.
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@hilltimes.com's executive editor @pmazereeuw.bsky.social hosted a panel for our subscribers today, 'Navigating Ottawa after the Budget' with ex-PBO Yves Giroux, former Tory trade minister Ed Fast, and ex-BC premier @christyclarkca.bsky.social. Listen on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui7iItYAMzc
November 5, 2025 at 8:42 PM
@hilltimes.com's executive editor @pmazereeuw.bsky.social hosted a panel for our subscribers today, 'Navigating Ottawa after the Budget' with ex-PBO Yves Giroux, former Tory trade minister Ed Fast, and ex-BC premier @christyclarkca.bsky.social. Listen on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui7iItYAMzc
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Heard On The Hill: Tim Cook remembered as ‘a great historian and a finer human’
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Tim Cook remembered as ‘a great historian and a finer human’
Also, former Liberal minister Catherine McKenna is hosting a new podcast, the Terrebonne election result will stand in Quebec, and Canadians are willing to pay more to support local.
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October 29, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Heard On The Hill: Tim Cook remembered as ‘a great historian and a finer human’
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Yup, even hilltimes.com is in on Canada's baseball fever! My column for today:
Heard on the Hill | ‘Despite 21 years having gone by, the Expos still have an incredible fandom’: Netflix Canada celebrates new film, Who Killed the Montreal Expos? in Ottawa, Oct. 28
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October 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Yup, even hilltimes.com is in on Canada's baseball fever! My column for today:
Mmm poutine!
Heard On The Hill: Mayoral hopeful ex-Tory MP Steven Blaney dishes on politics’ secret sauce
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October 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Mmm poutine!
my column for today!
October 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
my column for today!
My Monday column ⤵️
September 15, 2025 at 7:54 PM
My Monday column ⤵️
Heard on the Hill: Trudeau's ex-comms chief to write on 'batshit-crazy time' in #canpoli, Lorimer Press to release next in 'Capitalism and Colonialism' series, and ambassadors Bob Rae & Peter MacArthur muse on Canada-US relations www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
Ex-Trudeau comms chief Max Valiquette to serialize 10,000-word memoir of his time in PMO: 'a batshit-crazy time in Canadian politics'
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August 19, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Heard on the Hill: Trudeau's ex-comms chief to write on 'batshit-crazy time' in #canpoli, Lorimer Press to release next in 'Capitalism and Colonialism' series, and ambassadors Bob Rae & Peter MacArthur muse on Canada-US relations www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...
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August 6, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Heard On The Hill: Two NDP MPs plan to nominate Francesca Albanese for Nobel Peace Prize
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Two NDP MPs plan to nominate Francesca Albanese for Nobel Peace Prize
Plus: former NDP MPs Guy Caron and Matthew Green won't seek the party's leadership, celebrity chef Guy Fieri likes Laureen Harper's beef ribs, and Xavier Trudeau will perform at an Ottawa nightclub…
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July 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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@hilltimes.com now has a YouTube channel! Find our July 10 webinar with two CRTC senior leaders chatting with @hannahdaley.bsky.social, editor of our sister pub @thewirereport.ca as well as many recent episodes of our HotRoom podcast hosted by @pmazereeuw.bsky.social. youtube.com/@TheHillTimesNews
July 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
@hilltimes.com now has a YouTube channel! Find our July 10 webinar with two CRTC senior leaders chatting with @hannahdaley.bsky.social, editor of our sister pub @thewirereport.ca as well as many recent episodes of our HotRoom podcast hosted by @pmazereeuw.bsky.social. youtube.com/@TheHillTimesNews
July 7's Heard on the Hill: Anaida Poilievre's social media rules, REEL Politics Film Festival's slate of movies for the fall, and Rose LeMay make the Globe's bestseller list hilltimes.com/story/2025/07/07/anaida-poilievre-really-doesnt-care-do-you/466048/
July 8, 2025 at 3:11 PM
July 7's Heard on the Hill: Anaida Poilievre's social media rules, REEL Politics Film Festival's slate of movies for the fall, and Rose LeMay make the Globe's bestseller list hilltimes.com/story/2025/07/07/anaida-poilievre-really-doesnt-care-do-you/466048/
Better late than never... my most recent Heard on the Hill column from yesterday
Heard On The Hill: Wellington Building renovations force temporary press theatre relocation
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Wellington Building renovations force temporary press theatre relocation
Also, a Quebec court will hear the Terrebonne vote results case this fall, and Alex Neve will give the Massey Lectures this fall.
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July 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Better late than never... my most recent Heard on the Hill column from yesterday
My column for today!
Heard On The Hill: ‘One of the most inventive minds’: ex-minister John McCallum has died
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'One of the most inventive minds': ex-minister John McCallum has died
Also, the NCC updates its long-term vision for the Parliamentary Precinct, praises for Conservative Senator Judith Seidman ahead of her retirement, and lawyer Jacques Shore remembers the Air India…
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June 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
My column for today!
Today's Heard on the Hill! Props to those who cranked out a little half-marathon on a humid Thursday morning last week 😅
Heard on the Hill: Rookie Liberal MP and ultra-marathoner St-Pierre runs 21-kilometre maple leaf route for Canada Day
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June 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Today's Heard on the Hill! Props to those who cranked out a little half-marathon on a humid Thursday morning last week 😅
Chuffed that today's Heard on the Hill made @nationalnewswatch.com this morning!
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Pierre Poilievre airs second 'get to know the team' interview
Plus, a personal tale of resettlement during the Vietnam War comes to Ottawa, Richard Madan signs off from the CBC, the Assembly of First Nations delays its annual general meeting until the fall, and ...
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June 18, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Chuffed that today's Heard on the Hill made @nationalnewswatch.com this morning!
My latest column from today!
Heard on the Hill: Brigitte Pellerin pens book on Bruce Fanjoy’s recipe for victory
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Brigitte Pellerin pens book on Bruce Fanjoy’s recipe for victory
Also, Hedy Fry welcomes Fanjoy to the #DragonSlayerCaucus, Lucas Meyer ranks his top-five 'Speaker's drags' (spoiler: Francis Scarpellegia doesn't make the cut), and two notable people touched the…
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June 2, 2025 at 7:31 PM
My latest column from today!
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Heard On The Hill: Close race expected for Cutest Pets on the Hill contest
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Close race expected for Cutest Pets on the Hill contest
Plus: judicial recount confirms the Liberals have Milton East-Halton Hills South, Ont.; former NDP staffer Anthony Salloum launches a 'cathartic' blog; and Tessie Sanci takes over as The Hill Times'…
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May 21, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Heard On The Hill: Close race expected for Cutest Pets on the Hill contest
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Got to write about one of my favourite sketch comedy heroes in yesterday's Heard on the Hill: Mark McKinney! Looking forward to seeing more of his impression of Mark Carney
April 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Got to write about one of my favourite sketch comedy heroes in yesterday's Heard on the Hill: Mark McKinney! Looking forward to seeing more of his impression of Mark Carney
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Heard on the Hill: The Embassy of Peru hosts a cooking masterclass, Nunavut's new Senator Nancy Karetak-Lindell joins the ISG, and Rose LeMay's new book is coming April 22.
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April 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Heard on the Hill: The Embassy of Peru hosts a cooking masterclass, Nunavut's new Senator Nancy Karetak-Lindell joins the ISG, and Rose LeMay's new book is coming April 22.
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My column from yesterday! 👇
Heard On The Hill: Jake Stewart, Gerald Soroka won’t run in next election
Jake Stewart, Gerald Soroka won't run in next election
Also, Chrystia Freeland makes an appearance on Bill Maher's late-night show, Canadians are thinking about King Charles, Neil Young hearts Ukraine, and Ipsos will host a webinar on Canadians' response…
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March 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
My column from yesterday! 👇
Yesterday's Heard on the Hill.... hilltimes.com/story/2025/03/05/conservative-mp-jacques-gourde-has-prostate-cancer/452274/
March 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Yesterday's Heard on the Hill.... hilltimes.com/story/2025/03/05/conservative-mp-jacques-gourde-has-prostate-cancer/452274/
Today's Heard on the Hill! In addition to political people updates, I was pumped to feature a patriotic beer collaboration spearheaded by Ottawa's own Dominion City brewery hilltimes.com/story/2025/02/24/ottawa-brewery-launches-national-beer-collaboration-glorious-free/451716/
February 24, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Today's Heard on the Hill! In addition to political people updates, I was pumped to feature a patriotic beer collaboration spearheaded by Ottawa's own Dominion City brewery hilltimes.com/story/2025/02/24/ottawa-brewery-launches-national-beer-collaboration-glorious-free/451716/
Here's what I wrote for today's Heard on the Hill...
Heard on the Hill: Plus: B.C. lawyer and hereditary chief Bill Wilson has died, and Bloc MP Kristina Michaud will not seek re-election.
'Once a social worker, you never stop': Senator Nancy Hartling set to retire Feb. 1
Plus: B.C. lawyer and hereditary chief Bill Wilson has died, Bloc MP Kristina Michaud will not seek re-election, Government House Leader hot potato, and NCC OKs site for Residential Schools monument.
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January 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Here's what I wrote for today's Heard on the Hill...
My Heard on the Hill column for today! 👇
Heard on the Hill: Plus, the PM assembles an Canada-U.S. Council, Brian Mulroney gets a posthumous Canada Post honour, and Leslie Church finds a new home with Proof.
Black Canadians’ stories of political life recorded in new study and podcast
Plus, the PM assembles and Canada-U.S. Council, Brian Mulroney gets a posthumous Canada Post honour, and Leslie Church finds a new home with Proof.
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January 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
My Heard on the Hill column for today! 👇