Hill staffers look back on the COVID-19 pandemic from their front-row seats to history

In the second instalment of The Hill Times' retrospective on the fourth anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, staffers recall the behind-the-scenes anxiety, and the 'golden age of Question Period.'
Parliamentary staffers wait outside the Liberal caucus meeting in West Block on Nov. 8, 2021, as many return to Parliament Hill or arrive for the first time following that year's federal election.

On March 20, 2020, one week after both Chambers of Parliament adjourned, the COVID-19 pandemic had grown nearly tenfold to more than 1,000 reported cases. And as the Canada-United States border officially closed to non-essential travel, parliamentary staffers of all stripes ...

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