Foreigners View Canadian Crisis As Joking Lunches
A caustic column mocks Canada's political drama as 11 leaders and allies convene for long lunches behind closed doors. It imagines foreigners and the BBC lampooning the affair while Montreal, Ottawa, and Quebec tensions simmer amid Olympics coverage and submarine defense debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
BBC
Mordecai Richler
Joe Clark
Richler
Keith Spicer
Allaire
Beaudoin-Dobbie
Christendom
Neignbonya News: Space Makes Canada Different
Fred McGuinness reports a midsummer glimpse from Christmas Tree Farm noting a banner year for bluebirds, a surge of potato beetles, and harvest quirks. He laments frog declines, gopher scarcity, and foxes aiding partridges, while praising Canada’s space as a national trait and recalling Maclean’s Fotheringham column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christmas Tree Farm
Colorado
Everthing
Zoology Department
Europe
Fotheringham
Maclean's
Canada
Ex-con Rene Durocher tours Manitoba schools with crime not pay
The former Brinks truck thief, 48, now lives in St Pierre Jolys with his Manitoba wife and two children. He spends days as hockey rink caretaker and travels to schools to warn students that crime leads to prison. Durocher, who served 23 years across seven federal penitentiaries, endorses a permanent speakers bureau and has met officials to push the plan. He cites the high cost of incarceration to argue crime prevention through education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Brinks
Toronto
Unti
Manitoba
Rene Durocher
Durocher
St. Pierres Jolys
Lorette
Grosse Isle
Woodlands
St. Jean Baptiste College
Stony Mountain
Stonewall Centennial
Arbory Collegiate
Ste. Anne
Niverville
Gimli
Rene
Justice
Jim McCrae
Rosemary Vodrey
John
Speakers’ Bureau
Canada Post praised for high delivery rates in self-graded Olympics
The piece mocks Canada Post’s self measured mail delivery standards, noting 98 to 99 percent on time within domestic and cross province frames, while questioning the lax benchmarks. It cites Ernst and Young testing and critic Brien Gray on medal comparisons. It also reports stamp hike requests to 43, 49, and 86 cents with tax.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada Post
Ernst and Young
Canada
Winnipeg
Regina
Montreal
Fredericton
U.S
United States
Letters to politicians mirror constant garden weeds
A reader argues politicians pay attention to letters, comparing political affairs to weed pulling. He recalls childhood garden chores with cousin Cameron, noting one letter over time fails to fix issues, and urges ongoing civic engagement rather than neglect, concluding with a nod to "Let's Talk Taxes" by the Canadian Taxpayer Federation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cameron
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Robert Bourassa
Munich
B. Mulroney
Joe
Brian
Bell Canada
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Troc
Barcelona
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Victoria
Ottawa
Hull
Coventry
Neignbonya News
Fred McGuinness
JP Deedles
Vonles
Ques
Peter Warren
Howard Society of Manitoba
Graham Reddoch
St. Norbert Foundation
Grant Anderson
Citizen Ad
Visory
Bobbi Ethier
Pam Gardiner
John Howard Society
St. Pierre-Jolys
Michael Wyeks
Brien Gray
Canadian Federation of Independent Business
Kevin Avram
Russell Banner
Russell
ROJ Iwo
Mai Street
Chaloner Publishers
Clayton G. Chaloner
Ontario
Saskatchewan
Man
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