{"id":683,"date":"2012-04-03T15:17:47","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T19:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/?p=683"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:08:18","slug":"first-annual-riddell-program-reception","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/2012\/first-annual-riddell-program-reception\/","title":{"rendered":"First Annual Riddell Program Reception"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        First Annual Riddell Program Reception\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Students in the inaugural cohort of the Master of Political Management hosted the First Annual Riddell Program Reception on April 2 at the Rideau Club.&nbsp; David McLaughlin, former chief of staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord, and current Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty, delivered an address reflecting on the changing role of political staffers.&nbsp; TVOntario&#8217;s Steve Paikin then moderated a discussion that included panelists Eddie Goldenberg, chief of staff to Prime Minister Jean Chr\u00e9tien, Anne McGrath, chief of staff to NDP leader Jack Layton, and Rick Anderson, a former Liberal who went on to become national campaign director for the Reform Party, and who currently teaches in the Riddell Program.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event drew students, faculty and figures from Parliament Hill, including former Speaker of the House of Commons Peter Milliken.&nbsp; It was organized by Ihor Korbabicz, Chris Waterston, Matthew Burbidge and Nicholas MacDonald.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students in the inaugural cohort of the Master of Political Management hosted the First Annual Riddell Program Reception on April 2 at the Rideau Club.&nbsp; David McLaughlin, former chief of staff to Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, New Brunswick Premier Bernard Lord, and current Minister of Finance Jim Flaherty, delivered an address reflecting on the changing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":685,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions\/685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/politicalmanagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}