Dennis Bevington

NDP gathered in Centre Block on Wednesday..

Seven more MPs have moved to Thomas Mulcair in the last hour, including Megan Leslie, Dennis Bevington, Bruce Hyer and Brian Masse.

More movement in caucus support. Carol Hughes goes from Niki Ashton to Thomas Mulcair. Linda Duncan goes from Paul Dewar to Mr. Mulcair. And Dennis Bevington goes from Mr. Dewar to Nathan Cullen.

Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn of the Canadian Federation of Chabad Lubavitch organized a party for the Jewish holiday of Purim. The event was hosted Conservative MP Mark Adler.

A shoeless MP, the Senatrix Martini, and a meeting with Celine Dion

Late last week, two more NDP MPs made their picks for leader: Raymond Cote chose Peggy Nash, while Dennis Bevington went with Paul Dewar.

Here are the updated standings.

Thomas Mulcair (41) Robert Aubin, Paulian Ayala, Tarik Brahmi, Sylvain Chicoine, Anne-Marie Day, Matthew Dube, Pierre-Luc Dusseault, Rejean Genest, Jonathan Genest-Jourdin, Sadia Groguhe, Dan Harris, Sana Hassainia, Pierre Jacob, Matthew Kellway, Francois Lapointe, Alexandrine Latendresse, Helene Leblanc, Wayne Marston, Marc-Andre Morin, Marie-Claude Morin, Pierre Nantel, Jamie Nicholls, Jose Nunez-Melo, Annick Papillon, Claude Patry, Eve Peclet, Marion Perreault, Francois Pilon, John Rafferty, Mathieu Ravignat, Jean Rousseau, Djaouida Sellah, Philip Toone, Jonathan Tremblay, Don Davies, Ryan Cleary, Glenn Thibeault, Denis Blanchette, Ruth Ellen Brosseau, Pierre Dionne Labelle, Robert Chisholm

Brian Topp (12) Isabelle Morin, Charmaine Borg, Jean Crowder, Kennedy Stewart, Alexandre Boulerice, Yvon Godin, Alan Giguere, Libby Davies, Francoise Boivin, Jinny Simms, Jasbir Sandhu, Chris Charlton

After Bill C-389, which adds gender identity and gender expression to the Canada Human Rights Act, passed last week NDP MP Bill Siksay (below, left) hosted an after party.

NDP MPs gathered for their annual Christmas dinner. Below, Glenn Thibeault.

CPAC held a reception in the East Block Courtyard. Below, CPAC’s Martin Stringer.

On the basis of his comments last night to the CBC and CP, the NDP’s Charlie Angus would seem at the moment to be moving in the general direction of preparing to maybe vote against Bill C-391.

Postmedia finds three NDP MPs who are committed to voting in favour of C-391: Peter Stoffer, Dennis Bevington and Jim Maloway. Carol Hughes is undecided. A spokesperson for John Rafferty, the NDP MP for Thunder Bay, says Mr. Rafferty will only comment on his stance to the local media. (The hilarity of this position aside—the invention of the telegraph in 1794 making it relatively easy to transmit news from one city to another—it should at least compel someone from the Thunder Bay Chronicle Journal to give Mr. Rafferty a call sometime today.)

The Dairy Farmers of Canada held a reception at the Fairmont Château Laurier. Below, Minister of International Trade Peter Van Loan.