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Advice to advance teams

Have a political press conference in a church. You get softball questions asked in hushed, respectful tones. Even better if your guy is surrounded by some ministers (the god kind, not the cabinet kind) and a few women war veterans.That's what happened this morning at a Vic Toews presser at Holy Trinity Anglican downtown. It was nothing more than a pre-election event so Toews could talk tough about the looming vote, gussied up with a $25,000 donation to the lovely old church's stained glass window restoration.That church just sapped us of our cynicism. We couldn't needle and interrupt and eye-roll with a reverend looking on. No one even hinted around the edges of Toews recent personal issues or his flirtation with a judicial appointment. Smart move, Tories.

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About Mary Agnes Welch

Mary Agnes Welch joined the Free Press in 2002, first as a general assignment reporter and then covering city hall and the Manitoba legislature before moving to her current post as public policy reporter.

Before Winnipeg, she worked at the Windsor Star and the Odessa American, a small daily newspaper in West Texas. There, in addition to covering more than 20 counties, she took high school football scores from coaches all over West Texas by phone every Friday night.

Mary Agnes is a graduate of Columbia University’s journalism school, has won several Western Ontario Newspaper Awards and has been part of two teams of reporters nominated for a Michener Award. In 2011, she was nominated for a National Newspaper Award in the beat category. She is also the former national president of the Canadian Association of Journalists.

She once misspelled "Shih Tzu" in the paper and received 37 emails from angry dog-owners.

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