The Library of Parliament says groups of visitors, including students, will still have access to the House of Commons galleries during debates when the chamber moves buildings, by reserving seats ...
It's neither the books nor the architecture Sonia L'Heureux will miss most when she retires as chief librarian of the Library of Parliament this week. It's the way people react when they walk into the ...
The Library of Parliament is digitizing its rare copy of James John Audobon’s Birds of America, one of the world’s most expensive books with a value of more than $10 million. The original copy of the ...
The Library of Parliament renovation is six months overdue and more than $50 million over budget. Government officials acknowledged Monday that costs have ballooned by 60 per cent and that the library ...
Visitors taking a tour of Canada’s Parliament are often told: This is your building. This is the people’s Parliament. But Parliament will soon be less open to the people. When the House and Senate ...
Two bullet marks – just a few feet from where workers are normally stationed – have scarred the base of the wooden desk in the middle of the venerable Library of Parliament. Bullet holes also mark the ...
Are you interested in working with people from coast to coast while interpreting the history, architecture, and legislative process of Canada’s Parliament? Would you like to work in the heart of ...
Full disclosure: the last time ITQ covered the Library committee, it was pretty much just to see if it could be done without the liveblogger lapsing into a coma, but this time, it might actually get ...
ITQ will confess right here and now that she has no idea what to expect from today’s meeting, but since the NDP made such a big deal about it at Finance yesterday afternoon, we couldn’t very well skip ...
When Erik Spicer was appointed Parliamentary Librarian of Canada in 1960 by prime minister John Diefenbaker, he found an institution shunned by the very parliamentarians it was meant to serve.
The fire was first noticed in Parliament’s Reading Room – a chamber between the Library and the House of Commons. Someone called for a fire extinguisher. Unfortunately, blasts from the extinguisher ...