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Press gallery dinner such a hot ticket, filling it up to overflow

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Bloc MP Christine Normandin, left, then-NDP MP Lindsay Mathyssen, CPAC's Mathieu Cordeau, Liberal MP Mona Fortier, NDP MP Heather McPherson, and then-CPAC's Noah Richardson, plus Shannon Day-Newman, Global Public Affairs’ Hannah Thibedeau, retired CBC host Don Newman, CBC's Kate McKenna, and Sarah Brunetti at the 2024 Gallery Dinner.The Hill Times photograph by Stuart Benson

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BY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

November 26, 2025

This weekend is the Parliamentary Press Gallery’s annual black-tie dinner, and the night is already such a hot ticket that the executive has had to book an overflow room.

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