Former Sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers talks to Marie-Danielle Smith about the difficult balance between security and openness, and the dangers of building walls
Canada’s famous ambassador and his quest to uncover a link to the 1916 Easter Rising
A historian who was sitting behind Kevin Vickers when the ambassador to Ireland tackled a protester at a ceremony in Dublin describes how events unfolded
Autocratic whim may be all right for monuments, but not for re-organizing Parliamentary security
Newsmakers, Jan. 8: Kevin Vickers becomes an ambassador
The epic parliament
‘We are all, without question, in their debt’
Saluted by leaders at home and abroad, Kevin Vickers has become a meaningful symbol of strength and resilience
‘He’s a very playful guy … He is a gentle giant’
We are here and here we are
Vickers’ heroism is undoubted, but there were a ‘multitude of shots’
At this year’s Politics & the Pen gala, Anna Porter took home the $25 000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for political writing for her book The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe’s Troubled Past and Uncertain Future. Below, Porter with House Leader John Baird.