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Barely five feet tall, firmly "over 65," Lillian Morgenthau can throw a political punch that would bring most politicians to their knees.

Public Relations 400: Case Study (honors students only). The client is a former Canadian prime minister who left office with the lowest poll ratings in history.

In political circles, the glass-walled building in downtown Fredericton where Frank McKenna toiled for 10 years as New Brunswick premier was sometimes known as "Frank’s 7-11.

Standing in the back of the room, Louise Comeau didn't even attempt to hide her anger.

At Golfinn International’s offices in Brampton, Ont., Dave Finn is busily scratching numbers on a notepad, trying to arrive at some reasonably accurate estimate of the damage.

Inside his second-floor corner office at Queen's Park one afternoon last week, it was business as usual for Ontario Premier Mike Harris.

Even those people who dislike the Progressive CONSERVATIVES have had to acknowledge something recently: in several ways, the Tories have become leaner - and possibly meaner.

Donovan Bailey might not seem the most likely witness on behalf of Canadian culture.

The videotapes were shown only to the jury, but the sound track alone was enough to make even seasoned court veterans cringe.

Her face is round and smooth and she laughs often. She is a grown woman now, a wife and mother living in a modest apartment in the area of Toronto's east end known as "little" Chinatown.

Long ago, Anne McLellan learned to accept a daunting task with enthusiasm and a sense of duty. Growing up on her parents' dairy and chicken farm in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, she helped gather the eggs produced by the family's flock of hens. All 17,000 of them.

A moment comes which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. - Jawaharlal Nehru, first prime minister of a free India, on Aug.

For once, even the glittering neon splendor of Hong Kong's Nathan Road shopping mecca will be eclipsed.

For Larry Fisher, being on the move was nothing new. Since his release from prison in 1994, the convicted serial rapist had been hounded out of Dawson Creek, B.C., Calgary and North Battleford, Sask. Last week, Saskatoon joined the list.

In the end, the loony Smallwood scheme came to nothing.

 During his teenage years, Preston Manning spent many early daylight hours milking cows and performing other chores at the dairy farm near Edmonton owned by his father, Ernest, then the Social Credit premier of Alberta.

Marlene Stanton was unaccustomed to finding urgent stories in the daily mail, so she let the letters languish on her desk.

For nearly a quarter of a century, their names have been inextricably linked. From Delhi's opulent salons to the bazaars of Madras, Indians of every political stripe have puzzled over the unswerving devotion of former prime minister P. V.

Brian Mulroney can't stop laughing. Sunk into the well-upholstered couch in his eleventh-floor, downtown Montreal law office, he is trying to read out loud from a glossy report - but keeps breaking into guffaws.