Swishy Politics and the Pen gala on April 25, Mulcair to speak at CAJ, and PMO bids farewell to Persichilli at shindig

Nerenberg makes a movie, Senate staffer revives Ottawa women’s group, CBC’s Insiders to talk shop in Big Smoke

Brazeau forced to wear Grit jersey after loss to Trudeau in boxing match, thankful Senate rules allowed him to hide it

Famous Five recognizes Fraser as nation builder, women’s liberation came early to her rural Quebec farming family

Powers runs NYC’s half marathon, Wells releases e-book on Harper, Storeshaw joins Hill and Knowlton, and MacIntyre gets smack-down from media critics

Fauteaux climbs Kilimanjaro, IDRC, MPs, talk agriculture innovation, and DeRosa wins inaugural Travers Fellowship

Dewar puts humour into campaign, CUTA goes to Washington, Duceppe wins CTF’s Teddy Waste Awards

Suu Kyi beamed in by video conference, Kavanagh starts running program, Dupuy pens memoirs, and Famous 5 Ottawa to honour Fraser

Travers Fellowship winner to be announced, Writers’ Trust announces finalists for Shaughnessy Cohen prize, and Howie Wilson dies

Nixon writes book, Senators pay tribute to late Sen. Dickson, Cosentino now in D.C., and Strahl, Lessard Trudeau Foundation mentors

Clement vows Tories will do better in Quebec in next election

MPs mark Black History Month, Taber says farewell to Ottawa, Blenkarn dies

Moore to host Oscar-nominated Monsieur Lazhar Feb. 6 at National Arts Centre

In this ring! Trudeau and Brazeau hope to float like butterflies, sting like bees in celebrity boxing match

Grit MP Justin Trudeau couldn’t find a Tory who’d step into the ring with him for a celebrity boxing match to raise money for cancer research until he called Conservative Sen. Patrick Brazeau. But he didn’t know Sen. Brazeau was a former military, kick-boxer who has his second degree black belt in karate.

Low-profile McSweeney good friend to Prime Minister Harper

Recently-married Moore to host another movie night, NDP should use fear to fundraise

Tory MP Albrecht tells how his late wife Betty became an organ donor, encourages more to sign donor cards