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don’t know this person
A new poll published this week puts two prominent hockey names among Canada’s least not-known personalities. Angus Reid prodded 1,017 people across the country between October 9 and 17 for a poll that...
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(a great) game time
It’s been a frenetic fall for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, right from the moment, on September 4, when his publisher finally announced some specifics on the book with which Harper will make his...
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this week: there aren’t enough adjectives in the vocabulary
“Happy holidays everybody!!!,” tweeted @AnzeKopitar this week, “#besttimeoftheyear” In Ottawa, Governor-General David Johnston told CTV’s Powerplay what he thought of his next-door neighbour’s...
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benchwarmers?
Will the Supreme Court open its doors to Mr. Justice Marc Nadon? We’ll find out tomorrow, when after months of deliberation the high court rules on whether Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s appointee is...
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game on: when prime ministers attack
We know it’s coming, we just don’t know when. It makes no sense — and that’s exactly why we should be on our guard. Because we can’t wish it away — and we can’t — we’ll do our best to … Continue reading →
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court watch
Just so we’re clear, Justice Clément Gascon was at no time drafted by any NHL team, ever, and has refrained (so far) from saying he was. Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s newest nominee, to the Supreme...
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this week: shocked, saddened
Toronto’s Joffrey Lupul was in downtown Ottawa with the rest of the Leafs on Wednesday morning in the middle of the fear and chaos. “Surreal scene outside of our hotel right now,” he tweeted. “Lot of...
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goalscorer-in-chief
News that Vladimir Putin was skating and scoring on the ice yesterday wasn’t really news: the 62-year-old Russian president’s love of hockey is as well-known as his penchant for archaeology and for...
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#canadasgame
Congratulations to Team Canada, bringing home the gold yet again! @IIHFHockey #Canadasgame — Stephen Harper (@pmharper) May 17, 2015
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a well-timed slash to the ankles
Poilievre is ready to cross check anyone at anytime. He has previously gone after, for example, former auditor general Sheila Fraser, and aboriginals who were abused at residential schools. This week,...
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electoral froth 2015: sometimes in a hockey game
The Conservative campaign was faltering last week, which is to say stumbling, drifting, losing ground on the long road to Canada’s federal election on October 19: that’s what everybody was saying, if...
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electoral froth 2015: pretended he was shooting a puck at the assembled media
A dispatch, this morning, from The Canadian Press on the front lines of the Conservative campaign; requisite photo of the prime minister with stick in hand here. OTTAWA — MR. HOCKEY Stephen Harper got...
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this week: are you a hockey player or are you just someone who plays hockey?
Forty-three years ago this week, visiting Moscow with a Canadian rep team, a right winger, Waterloo-born, in Ontario, went shopping. The Minnesota North Stars’ Bill Goldsworthy that is, seen above: he...
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hockey night in the east room: when prime ministers and presidents dine
“Canada exports two things to the United States: hockey players and cold fronts. And Canada imports two things from the United States: baseball players and acid rain.” • Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau,...
View Articlecharlie querrie’s toronto may be gone, but his legacy endures in the stanley...
The downtown arena he ran for more than a decade is gone now, reduced to a lonely plaque in a strip of park shadowed by condo towers in downtown Toronto. The big theatre he built on the Danforth is no...
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