Irene Mathyssen
NDP MPs champion an end to the ‘tampon tax’
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Big Bird! Bev Oda! Binders of women! Some of the hottest political Halloween outfits!
NDP MPs, staffers and friends gathered for Halloween at the NDP watering hole Brixton’s. Outfits included Mitt Romney’s “binders full of women,” Bev Oda sipping $16 OJ (albeit from a plastic container) and NDP MP Niki Ashton as Big Bird.
CPAC at 20
CPAC celebrated their 20th anniversary in the East Block courtyard.
The endorsements
Irene Mathyssen and Claude Gravelle go for Paul Dewar.
Celebrating women in Canadian military forces
Rona Ambrose, Minister for Status of Women, hosted a reception in Senate Speaker Noël Kinsella’s salon in honour Women’s History Month. The gathering was to celebrate women in Canadian military forces.
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The Commons: The faint sound of disagreement
The era of decorum achieves total farce
First week fashion on the Hill
MPs show off some new looks for the beginning of the new session. Below, Liberal MP Siobhan Coady and her sealskin ear muffs.
Idea alert
NDP MP Irene Mathyssen, on behalf of two high schoolers, tables a bill to ban plastic shopping bags.
Pharmaceutical companies host on the Hill
Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D) held a reception on the Hill to highlight the work they are doing in Africa. Below, Susan Smith of Bluesky Strategy Group and Tim Powers of Summa Strategies.
Hill Helps Haiti fundraiser packed
Folks from all parties packed the Hill Helps Haiti fundraiser organized by the government relations firm Summa Strategies. The event raised over $32,000. Below, Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq (left) and Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Gail Shea.
Pork brings out the MPs
The Canadian Pork Council held a special reception at the Sheraton hotel. Below, Liberal MP Mark Eyking.