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Sleepover on the Hill: Your guide to Elizabeth May’s omnibus bill slumber party
With all the Bill C-38 amendments, the House’s voting sessions will be going late — like ‘slumber party’ late. So why not make it an actual slumber party?
Celebration on Parliament Hill marks the end of Canada’s Libya mission
A flyover the West Block of Parliament Hill on Thursday by RCAF aircraft deployed in Libya in recognition of the Canadian Forces contribution to support of the Libyan people. (Photo: PAT McGRATH/Postmedia News)
Layton’s casket arrives in Ottawa
Tears flowed Wednesday as Jack Layton arrived in the nation’s capital for the final time.
As a bagpiped lament filled the air, an honour guard of Mounties carried the late NDP leader’s Canadian-flag-draped casket from a hearse into a foyer of Parliament, where he will lie in state for the next two days.
The hearse carrying Layton, who died Monday after his second battle with cancer, arrived from Toronto after an hours-long drive, to a crowd of hundreds who had shown up to pay their respects.
After the RCMP officers put the casket in place in the foyer outside the House of Commons, the line soon began for those giving their condolences to Layton’s wife, MP Olivia Chow, and family, as they also signed the condolences book.
Photo: Members of the RCMP carry the coffin containing Jack Layton into the Center Block of Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Aug. 24, 2011. (Patrick Doyle/Reuters)
Gary Clement’s Week in Review
Cell phones could increase cancer risk: WHO
Raising our children without gender restrictions had no ill-effect: parents
The post office can be saved. But not by Canada Post
David Frum: Sarah Palin’s mysterious allure to middle class Republicans
Real prospects for a more civilized parliament
Germany says beansprouts may be behind E.coli
During the Speech from the Throne, a Senate page held up a sign protesting against Stephen Harper. Moments after getting kicked out of the chamber a press-release came out from the page. Read the full story here.
Gary Clement on the Tories being held in contempt
A House of Commons committee adopted a report yesterday finding the Conservative federal government in contempt of Parliament.
See more of Gary Clement’s cartoons.
