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A black-and-white chalk drawing on tan-coloured paper of King Charles III reading the Speech from the Throne in the Senate Chamber filled with guests.
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Sketches immortalize King Charles’ Canadian Speech from the Throne
May 27, 2026
The Senate Chamber in Centre Block.
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War and Peace: How Centre Block’s Senate Chamber bears witness to Canada’s wartime sacrifices
November 10, 2025
A portrait of Queen Elizabeth II in a white dress, with the Canadian flag and a painting of Queen Victoria in the background.
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‘A secret between the Queen and me’: The surprising details in the Senate’s newest portrait of Queen Elizabeth II
March 26, 2025
Canada’s Self Portrait, an ink piece comprised of 18 birch panels, by Aquil Virani and Rebecca Jones.
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Visual Voices 2025: New Senate artworks salute the National Flag of Canada’s 60th anniversary
February 12, 2025
A close-up of a sculptor’s hands holding a chisel and carving a sculpture of a dragon with a bird’s beak.
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The Canadian Style: How Centre Block’s carvers fell under a northern spell
December 11, 2024
A West Coast First Nations carving of an orca forms an arch over a doorway in Parliament Hill’s Centre Block.
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Indigenous Stories in Stone: Parliament’s supernatural creatures, part four
September 25, 2024
A painting of a woman standing in a field of dried grass, with hills and blue skies behind her.
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Visual Voices 2024: New art exhibit grounds viewers in Senate soil health study
August 13, 2024
A closeup of a hand shaping a carving of a cockatrice using a clay-sculpting tool.
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Sculptors recapture ghostly faces from Centre Block’s past
March 19, 2024
A carving of a smiling angelic child atop decorative wood panelling.
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The Hill’s Heavenly Host: Parliament’s supernatural creatures, part three
January 10, 2024
Senator Scott Tannas in a grey-blue suit seated at a table in his office in the Senate of Canada Building.
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Catching up on Centre Block’s rehabilitation with Senator Scott Tannas
December 18, 2023
A griffin, carved in stone, crouches atop a column on Parliament Hill’s Centre Block.
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Lurkers in the Shadows: Parliament’s supernatural creatures, part two
October 31, 2023
The Welsh Red Dragon is depicted on a hexagonal panel in the stained-glass ceiling of Centre Block’s Senate foyer.
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Fantastic Beasts: Parliament’s supernatural creatures, part one
September 20, 2023