Seasoned Tory fundraiser Eaton looking to next chapter, party rejuvenation as Senate retirement looms

After a decade in the upper Chamber, Senator Nicole Eaton says she’s a political junkie and retirement won’t keep her out of the mix.

Senator Nicole Eaton, who officially retires on Jan. 21, sits in the Speaker’s chair in her role as Speaker pro tempore, which she’s held since 2015. Photograph courtesy of the Senate

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

January 8, 2020

While politics had always been on the periphery of retiring Conservative Senator Nicole Eaton’s life, she points to lunch in the late '90s with a man trying to bring the former federal Progressive Conservative Party back from a $10-million hole of debt, while also t...

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