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The corridors of power around the Prime Minister’s Office may have just gotten a whole lot less crowded — and the prospect of an early election call a lot more likely.

On Tuesday afternoon, the listings for more than a dozen mid-to-senior PMO staffers vanished from the online government directory, including policy director Rachel Curran, senior advisor Catherine Loubier, digital outreach advisor Farhaan Ladhani and speechwriters Nigel Hannaford and Derek Shelly, among others.

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It’s not yet confirmed that any or all of the disappearing staffers have actually left the building, as no one at the PMO has yet replied to our request for a status update.

It’s also worth pointing out that the directory itself is currently being migrated to government’s new one-stop portal at canada.gc.ca, which could easily lead to inadvertent data loss — including, quite possibly, the deletion of some staff entries.