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Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner postponed until October

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NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, left, is pictured dancing with now-Yahoo Finance reporter Shruti Shekar, CBC host Chris Hall, and David Akin of Global News at the 2018 Parliamentary Press Gallery Dinner. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY NEIL MOSS

March 23, 2020

Like many events around Parliament Hill, the night some call the "Nerd Prom" is being postponed until October. The Parliamentary Press Gallery executive board announced last week that the event that brings together the press and federal politicians and staffers will not take place on its originally...

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