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Globe and Mail (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
When the polls started to show a spectacular rise in the popularity of Jean Charest and his Quebec Liberal Party, all card-carrying Liberals were understandably happy. Except one: Health minister Philippe Couillard, who had set his eyes for a long time on the Premier's chair, realized that his chances of replacing a man who now enjoys unprecedented support were nil. So, last week, the former neurosurgeon...
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 12/11/2007
As Premier Jean Charest's Quebec Liberal party sees it, Quebec is an "open and tolerant" society that cherishes immigrants, has had remarkably few problems integrating them and understands how important they are to the province's future. That is the thrust of a brief the party presented yesterday to Quebec's controversial commission on cultural accommodation, which is wrapping up its consultations....
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liberal catnip (Free subscription) | 07/09/2007
CALGARY — It might be considered a rite of passage in Canadian politics — after all, it did happen to former prime minister Jean Chrétien as well as Quebec Premier Jean Charest and former Alberta premier Ralph Klein. But an attempted pie attack on Ed Stelmach at the Alberta premier's annual Stampede breakfast Monday didn't strike a funny bone with his security officials. A young woman who approached...
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Ken Chapman (Free subscription) | 06/21/2007
Our recent column published last Sunday in LaPresse has generated some email interest. This is the last LaPresse column until the fall now: If money bought happiness, Albertans would be among the happiest people on earth. But they aren't. Heading into the summer, this remarkably prosperous province is beset by anxiety. Ralph Klein liked to say that after defeating the debt and deficit he “wanted to...
