This page is a directory of Twitter resources for those interested in Canadian federal politics. This page indexes hashtags, and twitter-names for organizations, and Twitter memes that have a strong connection with federal politics and Parliament Hill. If you've got something you think fits here, please send it along.


Hill People | Organizations, Memes and Hashtags
Organization/subject Description Hashtag
41st General Election Whether it's this year, next year, or the year after that, the next federal general election will be Canada's 41st such event. This tag is for stuff specifically related to nominations, financing, and election information. #elxn41
British High Commission Tweets about the work of the British High Commission in Canada
Budgets, Federal - 2009 Tweets about the 2009 Canadian Federal Budget as well as about related budget documents such as the main estimates, supplementary estimates and the quarterly reports demanded by the Liberal Opposition. The 2009 Federal Budget was tabled on January 27 #CBGT09
Budgets, Federal - 2010 Tweets about the 2010 Canadian Federal Budget as well as about related budget documents such as the main estimates, and supplementary estimates. #CBGT10
Canadian Alliance of Student Associations The daily musings of the home office staff for a post-secondary education lobby group.
Canadian Conference of the Arts The Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) is the national forum for the arts and cultural community in Canada.
Canadian Left For discussion, comments, pointers for those interested in the Canadian left. This tag is for left politics from the national perspective. There may be other tags, such as #TOleft for other those active on the left in other regions and jurisdictions. #cdnleft
Canadian Politics All purpose hashtag for Canadian politics #cdnpoli
Canadian War Museum Tweets generated by staff at the Canadian War Museum
Canwest News Service Parliamentary Bureau Tweets from reporters and editors at Canwest News Service's National Newsroom in the nation's capital
Committee on Aboriginal Affairs Canada House of Commons Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. Chair: @stanton_brucemp #aano
Committee on Access to Information and Ethics Canada House of Commons Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy, and Ethics Chair: Paul Szabo (Liberal - Ontario) #ETHI
Committee on Agriculture Canada House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food (AGRI) Chair: Larry Miller (Conservative - Ontario) #CAGRI
Committee on Canadian Heritage House of Commons Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage. Chair: Gary Schellenberger (Conservative - Ontario) #CHCP
Committee on Citizenship and Immigration House of Commons Standing Committee on Citizenship and Immigration. Chair: David Tilson (Conservative - Ontario) #CIMM
Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development (ENVI): Chair: @JamesBezan (Conservative - Manitoba) #CENVI
Committee on Finance House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) Chair: James Rajotte (Conservative - Alberta) #CFINA
Committee on Fisheries and Oceans House of Commons Standing Committee on Fisheries and Oceans Chair: Rodney Weston (Conservative - New Brunswick) #FOPO
Committee on Foreign Affairs Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development (FAAE) Chair: Kevin Sorenson (Conservative - Alberta) #FAAE
Committee on Government Operations and Estimates House of Commons Standing Committee on Government Operations and Estimates (OGGO) Chair: Yasmin Ratansi (Liberal - Ontario) #OGGO
Committee on Health House of Commons Standing Committee on Health(HESA) Chair: Joy Smiith (Conservative - Manitoba) #HESA
Committee on Human Resources House of Commons Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities (HUMA) Chair: Dean Allison (Conservative - Ontario) #CHUMA
Committee on Industry The House of Commons Standing Committee on Industry, Science, and Technology (INDU). Chair: Michael Chong (Conservative - Ontario) #CINDU
Committee on International Trade The House of Commons Standing Committee on International Trade. For tweets about anything have to do with this committee, its meetings, studies, reports, etc. Chair: Lee Richardson (Conservative - Alberta) #CIIT
Committee on Justice and Human Rights House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights Chair: Ed Fast (Conservative - British Columbia) #CJUST
Committee on National Defence House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence Chair: Maxime Bernier (Conservative - Quebec) #NDDN
Committee on Natural Resources House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources (RNNR) Chair: Leon Benoit (Conservative - Alberta) #RNNR
Committee on Official Languages House of Commons Standing Committee on Official Languages (LANG) Chair: Steven Blaney (Conservative - Quebec) #LANGC
Committee on Procedure and House Affairs House of Commons Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs (PROC) Chair: Joe Preston (Conservative - Ontario) #PROC
Committee on Public Accounts House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Accounts (PACP) Chair: @ShawnMurphyMP (Liberal - PEI) #PACP
Committee on Public Safety House of Commons Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security (SECU) Chair: Garry Breitkreuz (Conservative - Saskatchewan) #CSECU
Status of Women House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women #FEWO
Committee on Transportation, Infrastructure The House of Commons Standing Commitee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities. CTRAN
Committee on Veterans Affairs The House of Commons Standing Committee on Veterans Affairs #ACVA
Conservative Party of Canada Twitter account for the federal party.
Copyright consultations The tweet feed for the federal government's copyright consultations. copyrightcanada
Economic Stimulus Plan The federal government's spending announcements, spending plans, spending intentions. Started up by David Akin to track any announcements of federal spending and trends. Follow @ottawaspends to get David Akin's tweets to this hashtag. Akin explains his @ottawpends syntax and rationale here. #ottawaspends
Embassy of Israel The Embassy of Israel in Canada
Embassy Magazine Embassy is Canada's Foreign Policy, Trade, Development, Defence, Immigration, Public Safety, International Politics Newspaper.
Green Party of Canada Tweets for Greens in Canada #gpc
Health Canada Appears to be alerts and press releases issued by Health Canada though the Twitter profile page contains no information to that effect. HealthCanadaGC
House of Commons Canada's House of Commons. Twits about Question Period, debates, bills introduced -- anything going in the lower chamber. #HOC
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami ITK is the national organization representing Inuit in Canada. ITK_CanadaInuit
Liberal Convention The 2009 national convention for the Liberal Party of Canada in Vancouver #van09
Liberal Party Tweets from the Liberal Party of Canada liberal_party #lpc
Muskoka 2010 All tweets related to the 2010 G8 Leaders Summit in Huntsville, Ontario as well as to Canada's year-long presidency of the G8. #2010G8
NDP Hashtag for all things related to Canada's NDP -- both federally and provincially. #ndp
NDP Annual Convention: Halifax 09 The New Democratic Party of Canada annual convention in Halifax August 14-16. #HFX09
O'Brien Trial Ottawa Citizen reporter Glen McGregor Tweets from this account covering the trial of Ottawa Mayor Larry O'Brien @obrientrial
Oliphant Commission Commission of Inquiry into Certain Allegations Respecting Business and Financial Dealings Between Karlheinz Schreiber and the Right Honourable Brian Mulroney. #oli
Ottawa Centre Greens Twitter account for the Green Party's Electoral District Association (EDA) in the riding of Ottawa Centre Ontario. ottawactrgreens
#PMHarper A collection of tweets which have Prime Minister Stephen Harper as their subject. #pmharper
Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Office of Tweets generated by staff at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada. PrivacyPrivee
Right Of Twitter A discussion thread for all things Conservative, federally and provincially. A creation of Blogging Tories founder Stephen Taylor. #roft
Real Numbers PBO Online advocates in support of the Parliamentary Budget Officer RealNumbersPBO
United States Embassy in Ottawa David Jacobson will soon take up his spot as the United States Ambassador to Canada. In the meantime, U.S. Embassy staff generate a helpful and content-rich tweetfeed
Young Liberals of Canada Tweets from YLC/JLC ylc_jlc