Press gallery clerk retires, bids adieu to a pressure cooker

‘There’s a lot more pressure today,’ for media on Parliament Hill, says outgoing gallery clerk Jean Labelle.

OTTAWA—When Jean Labelle started working on Parliament Hill,  Steve Miller Band’s The Joker was No. 1 on the charts, Pierre Trudeau was prime minister of a minority government, the price and wage freezes was all the rage, and, as a soundman for CBC TV, news was still shot...

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