New security-screening processes coming for media, MPs’ staff on Hill

The incoming security-screening process for new reporters to access the Hill was discussed at the press gallery’s annual general meeting on Feb. 24.

New member of the Parliamentary Press Gallery will have to go through rigorous new security screening. Hill reporters pictured here in the National Press Theatre in Ottawa. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

February 27, 2017

The House Board of Internal Economy is working to introduce new security-screening processes for MPs’ staff, volunteers, and interns, and new members of the Parliamentary Press Gallery, later this y...

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