Breakfast on Thursday was the rest of yesterday’s leftover tossard from Paillard, so for lunch I took the funicular down to lower town and managed to duck into Cochon Dingue just before the skies opened up. Cochon Dingue I was excited about both my choices at Cochon Dingue, but what
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The Sir Robert Bond Papers: TDIH: "Quebec paper reports Lower Churchill agreement" #nlpoli #cdnpoli
Two decades ago, there was talk of a deal to develop not one, not two, but three dams in Labrador. The story broke in a Quebec newspaper, Le soleil, on February 19 and the next day the Telegram did a front pager written by business editor Chris Flanagan. “The big
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Two former Premiers sent a very pointed message to Premier Dwight Ball this week about the way Ball has been handling the provincial government’s massive deficit problem.Brian Tobin was in St. John’s to present a cheque on behalf of the Bank of Mon…
Continue readingAlberta Diary: Order of Canada for Stevie Cameron sets the right tone for the coming Year of Mulroney
Happy New Year … and this time I mean it! Author and cook Stevie Cameron wearing the official regalia of a member of the Order of Canada. Actual Order of Canada recipients may not appear exactly as illustrated. Below: The real Ms. Cameron; Brian Mulroney, the 18th prime minister of
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