Keeping Governments Honest
Ottawa’s press gallery has evolved but its task is unchanged December 2018
Three times, over three different decades, I have been the grateful recipient of the traditional engraved pewter mug marking the end of my time in the Parliamentary Press Gallery, only to be flung back into the fray as if tethered to some 613 area code boomerang.
I lived through the era of ashtrays in the Centre Block foyer and the drunken Friday night press club…