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Then-prime minister Pierre Trudeau speaks to reporters in the Charles Lynch Press Theatre room, 130-S, in Centre Block in 1975 in this photo from former Hill reporter Andrew Caddell’s collection. Photograph courtesy of Andrew Caddell

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

December 12, 2018

OTTAWA—The first time I went to Parliament Hill, I got lost. It was September 1972, and I had just arrived from Montreal to study at the University of Ottawa. I was so mesmerized by the Peace Tower that I just followed my nose through the streets until I got there. When I did, I realized I had no...

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