‘We’re moving in with the bees,’ Senators to share headquarters with colony of honeybees

'That means, despite what the media think, we’ll be buzzing in the Senate from now on,' says Sen. Terry Mercer.

The Senate's soon-to-be interim home at the Government Conference Centre will be buzzing, with plans to install hives on the roof of 2 Rideau St. It will be the first urban beehives on a federally owned building in Ottawa.The Hill Times photographs by Kristen Shane and Jessica Bruno

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

July 24, 2017

PARLIAMENT HILL —There’s a buzz in the air about the Senate’s temporary headquarters next year. Literally. The Government Conference Centre at 2 Rideau St. will become the Senate’s new interim home beginning in 2018 and will soon after also become home to a colony of honeybees, with plans t...

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