There’s a new face at the PMO. Sarah Goodman recently joined the Prime Minister’s office as a policy adviser. She started about two weeks ago and will work on files including environment and climate change, fisheries and oceans, natural resources and transport.

Goodman is founder and CEO of Treetop Strategy. She was previously senior VP of business development and strategy at the environmental policy charity Tides Canada, and before that VP of government and public affairs at the natural resources firm Weyerhaeuser.

Meanwhile, all of the chatter this week about Gerry Butts being tight with Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon turned out to be moot: Bannon is now out of the administration, as of Friday – something Axois was predicting earlier in the day.

Over at Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi’s office, Sadie Ghosn was added recently as a special assistant on the Atlantic desk. Ghosn was previously at the Liberal research bureau for about a year. Before that, she served as an assistant to MPs Gagan Sikand and Kirsty Duncan.

Senator Larry Smith picked Stephen Kelly as his chief of staff this week, iPolitics reported Tuesday. Kelly was a former adviser to the late Jim Prentice.

Over in the media world, while Ezra Levant’s The Rebel was imploding this week as a raft of right-wing refugees fled that ship, journalists working in mainstream media announced some musical chairs of their own.

CP announced that the Toronto Sun’s Queen’s Park bureau chief Shawn Jeffords will start working for their Queen’s Park desk.

In Ottawa, Michael Woods is going to be the producer of CTV News at Five, which will be hosted by Matt Skube — moves which Bell Media said were a part of a larger local programming expansion it’s rolling out at other stations across Canada.

In Quebec, Radio-Canada reporter Emmanuelle Latraverse will head up the 10 p.m. newscast (Téléjournal 22h).

Bravo à ma collègue Emmanuelle Latraverse @elatraverse qui devient grand reporter au Téléjournal 22h. Elle excelle au reportage!!!!! — Manon Globensky (@manonglobensky) August 16, 2017

Meanwhile, the paywalled Ontario political news site Queen’s Park Today announced it’s expanding into B.C. and will be hiring soon.

Queen’s Park Today is EXPANDING and HIRING. Excited to announce BC Today is coming very soon. https://t.co/ptfilW3oZB — Allison Smith (@QueensParkToday) August 14, 2017

Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister Navdeep Bains announced the appointment of two of six chairs for the government’s Economic Strategy Tables.

Charles Deguire, co-founder of Kinova Robotics, will chair the advanced manufacturing table. Murad Al-Katib, president and CEO of AGT Food and Ingredients, will chair agri-food.

Deepak Chopra, president and CEO of Canada Post, announced his retirement on Monday. He’s out as of March 31, 2018.

And over in Manitoba, the Pallister government announced a mid-August DM-shuffle.