The 29th Annual Genie Awards came to Ottawa for the first time. Five MPs showed up. The stars came out. Backstage, CTV’s eTalk served the same cookies that Barack Obama bought when the U.S. president was in Ottawa. Everyone left with a bag of chips. (Text and photos by Mitchel Raphael.)
- Nico Pecota
- Museum staff
- MP Pablo Rodriguez
- Devon Bostick
- Dave Foley
- Joe Dinicol and Martha Hall Findlay
- Joe Dinicol and Lindsay Blackett
- Kevin Newman
- More Mounties
- Royal Galipeau
- Jim Watson and Jayne Watson
- Sarah Polley
- Rossif Sutherland
- Rossif Sutherland and Sara Morton
- Dave Foley and Sarah Polley
- Sarah Polley and David Sandomierski
- Sarah Polley and MP Martha Hall Findlay
- Sarah Polley and MP Paul Dewar
- Marie Lemay
- Devon Bostick
- Carole Lavallée
- The ushers.
- Rupinder Nagra
- Paul Galipeau and Paul Dewa
- Richard Comeau
- Yves-Christian Fournier
- Backstage: The media.
- Kristin Booth
- Marcel Jean and Claude Cloutier
- Backstage: The photographer’s pit.
- Obama Cookies
- Callum Keith Rennie
- Photographer Charles-Henri Debeur
- The folks behind Up The Yangtze
- Natar Ungalaaq
- Benoît Pilon
- Larry O’Brien and George Stroumboulopoulos
- MP Paul Dewar
- Food bag
- MP Martha Hall Findlay and her son
- George Stroumboulopoulos
- Kristin Booth
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