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Create AccountThis article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 10, 1995. Partner content is not updated.
The year was 1980 and a 25-year-old Brian Tobin badly needed advice. Grit organizers wanted Tobin, a cocky former radio disc jockey, television newscaster and provincial Liberal party operative, to run in a traditionally Tory riding on Newfoundland's west coast.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 13, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
Khaled Meshal knows he is lucky to be alive - even if he remains mystified about precisely what it was that almost killed him.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 18, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
If Martin has his way, there will be one more budget - if only because he could then announce the virtual elimination of the federal deficit by the turn of the century.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 2, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
Like hundreds of other hospitals across the country, The Pas Health Complex - a 60-bed facility attached to a 62-bed nursing home - has had its budget slashed and its staff reduced. It is operating on 20 per cent less money, or $1.4 million, than it did three years ago.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on December 8, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 15, 2006. Partner content is not updated.
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 11, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
"Moles only come out in the dark when no one is watching. Jews only do their deeds when no one is watching. A mole when mad, will strike back and have no mercy when disturbed. Jews strike at any time and have NO mercy." That excerpt from an examination answer penned by an Eckville, Alta.Canada and the United States have a unique relationship. Two sovereign states, occupying the bulk of North America and sharing the world's longest undefended border, each reliant on the other for trade, continental security and prosperity. Despite radically different beginnings, as well as a history of war, conflict and cultural suspicion, the two countries stand as a modern example of inter-dependence and co-operation.
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on November 22, 1999. Partner content is not updated.
By the Queen's Robing Room inside the Palace of Westminster, there is a small, sedate chamber they call the Norman Porch. It is populated entirely with busts of past luminaries of the House of Lords, each of whom has served as British prime minister.Stornoway is the official residence of Canada’s federal leader of the Opposition. It is located at 541 Acacia Ave
in the village of Rockcliffe Park in Ottawa. Purchased in 1950 by a private trust, Stornoway has been owned by the Government
of Canada since 1970 and managed by the National Capital Commission since 1986.
In Canada, the leader of the Opposition is the leader of the largest political party sitting in opposition to the federal government (in other words, the party with the second-largest number of seats in the House of Commons). The formal title is “Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition.” This title reflects the Westminster system of government found in many Commonwealth countries whose political roots can be traced to the United Kingdom.
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on November 17, 1997. Partner content is not updated.
Robert Latimer watches in detached amusement as a kitten plays with his shoelaces. It is the day after a second jury has found him guilty of second-degree murder, and he is relaxing with half a dozen relatives on the deck in front of his modest farmhouse in Wilkie, Sask.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on August 19, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
When Venus Carter realized she was pregnant with her fourth child, she knew it was time to confront her 15-year addiction to crack cocaine. Her three other children, although physically unharmed by her habit, had already been removed from her Toronto home by children's aid officials.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on May 23, 2005. Partner content is not updated.
KATHY KING sat in the living room of her middle-class EDMONTON home last week, reliving yet again the horror of losing a daughter to a serial killer, or killers, stalking the city's street prostitutes.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on 8 March 1999. Partner content is not updated.
"The two leaders, who appeared relaxed with one another and frequently made eye contact, also agreed to work together on the mad cow issue.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 10, 1995. Partner content is not updated.
For Alice Clark, joining the RCMP in 1980 was the fulfilment of a teenage dream. Two years later, the Hamilton native was posted to the 60-member detachment at Red Deer, Alta., where, at first, the men she worked with were welcoming and helpful. Then, she was transferred to city traffic duty.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 13, 1995. Partner content is not updated.
A few minutes before Finance Minister Paul Martin was to deliver his budget speech in the House of Commons last week, he and Prime Minister Jean Chrétien met in Chrétien's second-floor office on Parliament Hill along with Martin's wife, Sheila, and Aline Chrétien.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 15, 1996. Partner content is not updated.
This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on March 15, 1999. Partner content is not updated.
B.C. Premier Glen Clark lives in a modest, shingled home on Anzio Drive on Vancouver's east side, near the Burnaby boundary. Last Tuesday night, his wife, Dale, a public school teacher, was home as usual with the couple's two young children, Reid and Layne. Around 7 p.m.This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on October 2, 1995. Partner content is not updated.
