The tone for this year’s correspondents night in Ottawa was set by hero-turned-diplomat Kevin Vickers who asked people to take their seats by cracking: “I hope everybody that’s standing realizes what happened to the last guy that pissed me off,” Vickers said, referring to his tackling of an Irish protester at a ceremony commemorating British war dead in Dublin last month. CBC
Canada's new brand of political communication on stage at last night's Press Gallery Dinner. Sophie steals the show https://t.co/tyi4965Xrs
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Lots of laughs, no f-bombs at annual Ottawa press gallery dinner. #cdnpoli https://t.co/wD6gWOrwA9
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'It's OK, the bad man's gone away,' Rona Ambrose says of Harper at press gallery dinner: https://t.co/WZjmjONk15 pic.twitter.com/F0w1AKaiMm
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