Long hours, quiet hallways: working the late shift in silly season

A few 'night owls' enjoy the relative quiet of the late shifts working as support staff on Parliament Hill, but it can be a difficult time for those with families.
Staff in the Library of Parliament have seen 164 people come through the doors of the library in Centre Block during evening hours, though not all of them mind working the late shift.
Sitting in a room on the lowest level of Centre Block, a handful of interpreters took a break waiting for their next shift, their murmurs the only sound along a quiet hallway in the waning hours before midnight. Staff taking on th...

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