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Live, from Facebook and YouTube: it’s pandemic 2.0 Politics and the Pen

A normally hot-ticket event, Politics and the Pen has for years brought together 'a strange combination of folks,' including cabinet ministers, party leaders, staffers, authors, reporters, and lobbyists for one lively night to raise money for Canadian authors. But it's going virtual for the second year in a row, this time on Facebook and YouTube.

Guests, pictured May 9, 2018, at the Politics and the Pen gala at the Château Laurier hotel in Ottawa. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY

September 22, 2021

For the second consecutive year, the pandemic has parlayed the party for the annual Politics and the Pen event into a literally more sober online gathering. But that’s not such a bad thing, according to organizing committee co-chair Jim Armour. “The real emphasis will be on the five finalists a...

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