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    MPs get bookish – Politics & the Pen

    At this year’s Politics & the Pen gala, Anna Porter took home the $25 000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for political writing for her book The Ghosts of Europe: Journeys Through Central Europe’s Troubled Past and Uncertain Future. Below, Porter with House Leader John Baird.

    Jim Prentice’s goodbye bash

    Former cabinet minister Jim Prentice held a goodbye party before the House rose. Prentice (left) with Justice Minister Rob Nicholson.

    Olympians and Gold Medal Plates

    The National Arts Centre hosted Ottawa’s Gold Medal Plates dinner to raise funds for the Canadian Olympic Foundation. Local chefs prepared special meals and high profile Olympians attended including Alexandre Bilodeau (below), the first Canadian to win gold on Canadian soil.

    Speaker hosts Paul Gross and GG winners

    Speaker Peter Milliken held a reception in his dining room for the recipients of the 2009 Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.

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    Mitchel Raphael on Harper’s hairstylist

    And the ‘Slumdog’ star’s opinion of Calgary