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Queer Legends podcast sheds light on civil service’s 40-year LGBT Purge

Plus, colleagues mourn former senator Joseph Day, Andrew Lawton’s new book on Pierre Poilievre is out, Stephen Maher and Hannah Thibedeau among ex-press gallery types to be ‘mugged’ on May 31, McMaster to honour Senator Dean, and Stefanie Beck is shuffled to deputy minister of defence.

Fergus appears before PROC

House Speaker Greg Fergus appears before the House Procedure and House Affairs Committee. Fergus is weathering a Conservative-led push to oust him as Speaker, accusing him of lacking the “impartiality” required of the nonpartisan post, following an event on his website that used language targeting Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. The Bloc Québécois have shared that […]