Paul Rochon, a veteran Finance official

My story on Lobby Monitor today is a profile of the deputy minister of Finance, Paul Rochon. This was a more difficult profile to write as the subject wasn't willing to be interviewed, and finding people who knew him turned out to be a harder task than originally thought, but eventually I made the right connections and got the profile off the ground, and it turned out pretty well in the end.

Profile: Knubley, the accidental, grassroots senior official

My story on Lobby Monitor today is a profile of the Deputy Minister of Industry Canada, John Knubley. Fortunately he was willing to provide me with an interview, albeit by email, and plenty of others were willing to talk to me about him, which made my job a lot easier.

October lobbying: CME lobby day drives 93 communications

My story on Lobby Monitor today looks at the October reports uploaded to the Lobbyist Registry to see who are the top lobby groups for the month, as well as to see who some of the top players in the government have been meeting with. I've never done much work with the lobby registry before, so it was a good challenge to learn how to navigate it, as well as to get in touch with these groups on a tight deadline. It's also a great learning experience about some of those communications on the lobby side of government, and how that works.

Environmental groups looking for amendments to energy bill C-22 in the Senate

I have my first piece for Lobby Monitor
up today, which was looking bill C-22 as it heads toward the Senate. Unlike most of the reporting on bills that I do, I got to focus on lobby groups and their messages on the bill as opposed to talking to the MPs who are doing the debating. It was an interesting exercise, and a good challenge going forward.