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Operative Words

Behind the campaign curtain

Snuffed Torch

Can the Olympic myth survive?

Lax Americana

What happens if Donald Trump returns to the White House?

Tim Harper

Tim Harper served three stints in the Parliamentary Press Gallery as reporter, bureau chief, and national affairs columnist with the Toronto Star between 1988 and 2016.

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Tim Harper

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…