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Screens line the rear wall of the temporary House of Commons chamber in the Sir John A. Macdonald building in Ottawa. The screens allow MPs to virtually join in to any proceedings. (Christian ...
Charles Barry’s original mid-Victorian House of Commons chamber became one of the most high-profile casualties of the Blitz when it was destroyed in May 1941. Its reconstruction after the war would be ...
Jennie the guide dog enjoys being in the House of Commons chamber because she knows she can get a “good lie down”, according to her MP. The Liberal Democrats’ furriest frontbencher ...
The House of Commons chamber descended into a shouting match after the ex-Tory health minister was slapped down by the deputy speaker for 'behaving abominably'. The dressing down of Victoria ...
It would be a model 21st-century parliamentary chamber that would demonstrate what the House of Commons could look like if it were fundamentally reformed. Such a model chamber would be designed to ...
As such, it can claim popular sovereignty as well as the right to rule. The House of Commons is the first chamber of Parliament and is also called the Lower House. It is probably the institution most ...
Plamandon is back in the chair, and informs the House of Commons that a new speaker has been duly elected — and it is — the member for Lac – Saint Louis, Que., Francis Scarpaleggia, who was definitely ...