Parliamentary Protective Service guards called to House Science Committee after Hill Times reporter refused to turn off audio recorder, committee chair and top clerk of committees later apologize

The Hill Times’ deputy editor Tessie Sanci said the repeated interruptions and demands for her to stop recording ‘made it hard for all of us in the room to do our jobs.’

The House Science and Research Committee's chair, Liberal MP Salma Zahid, apologized to The Hill Times' deputy editor Tessie Sanci after PPS guards were called to the March 23 meeting when Sanci refused to turn off her audio recorder. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY STUART BENSON

March 24, 2026

House of Commons committee staff will receive a refresher on the rules governing recordings and media coverage after Hill security was called on a journalist who refused to turn off her audio recorder on March 23 at a House Science and Research Committee meeting in the West ...

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