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Live, from Facebook and YouTube: it’s pandemic 2.0 Politics and the Pen

A normally hot-ticket event, Politics and the Pen has for years brought together 'a strange combination of folks,' including cabinet ministers, party leaders, staffers, authors, reporters, and lobbyists for one lively night to raise money for Canadian authors. But it's going virtual for the second year in a row, this time on Facebook and YouTube.

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BY CHRISTOPHER GULY
September 22, 2021

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