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Clark to Become Tory Leader
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Clark to Become Tory Leader

There is not much Canadians don’t know about Joe Clark by now. He is an eternal optimist to some, a punching bag for others, and that combination has set him up for some of the more humiliating political defeats of his generation.

Bernard Lord
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Bernard Lord

Bernard Lord, lawyer, businessman, premier of New Brunswick 1999-2006 (born 27 September 1965 in Roberval, QC). After becoming New Brunswick's youngest elected premier at age 33, Lord successfully revised the province's Official Languages Act and introduced widely praised measures to improve bilingual services.

Harold Connolly
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Harold Connolly

Harold Joseph Connolly, newspaperman, politician, premier of NS (b at Sydney, NS 8 Sept 1901; d at Halifax 17 May 1980). Connolly worked with the Halifax Chronicle and was editor of the Daily Star when elected a Liberal MLA in 1936.

Erik Hersholt Nielsen
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Erik Hersholt Nielsen

Erik Hersholt Nielsen, politician (b at Regina, Sask 24 Feb 1924; d at Kelowna, BC 4 Sept 2008). Erik Nielsen flew in 101 Squadron in WWII, winning the DFC for "courage and devotion to duty," and rejoined the RCAF, 1946-51, as a legal officer while earning a law degree at Dalhousie.

Harcourt Weathers Scandals
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Harcourt Weathers Scandals

The weather made an altogether too-apt metaphor for the uncertain fortunes of British Columbia politics last week, as the province’s legislature reconvened under shafts of brilliant sunshine that made way for scudding clouds.

Filmon Re-elected
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Filmon Re-elected

Maybe Manitoba was always immune to the trend. Or perhaps the wave of anti-status quo, throw-the-bums-out sentiment that has swept North America - obliterating the federal Conservatives in the 1993 election and congressional Democrats in the United States last fall - is finally beginning to ebb.

Gilbert White Ganong
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Gilbert White Ganong

Gilbert White Ganong, confectionery manufacturer, politician, lieutenant-governor of New Brunswick 1917 (b at Springfield, NB 22 May 1851; d at St Stephen, NB 31 Oct 1917).

Donald Frank Mazankowski
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Donald Frank Mazankowski

Donald Frank Mazankowski, politician (b at Viking, Alta 27 July 1935). After a period as president and general manager of an automobile and farm machinery dealership, Mazankowski was elected to the House of Commons as Conservative MP for Vegreville, Alta, in 1968.

Daniel Williams
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Daniel Williams

In addition to practising law, Williams excelled at business. While attending Dalhousie's law school, he led a group of businesspeople to seek the first cable licence in Newfoundland and built Cable Atlantic into one of the largest communications companies in Atlantic Canada.

David Spencer
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David Spencer

David Spencer, merchant (b at St Athan, Wales 9 Aug 1837; d at Victoria 2 Mar 1920). A farmer's son, he was apprenticed to a dry-goods merchant in Wales and came to Victoria in 1862.

Clark's New Job
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Clark's New Job

On Monday of last week, Glen Clark, ex-New Democrat premier of B.C., was hanging off the side of an office tower 28 floors above downtown Vancouver. He didn't have a noose around his neck, as some in the business community might wish. Far from it.

Sir Robert Borden
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Sir Robert Borden

Sir Robert Laird Borden, lawyer, politician, prime minister of Canada, 1911–20 (born 26 June 1854 in Grand Pré, NS; died 10 June 1937 in Ottawa, ON).

James Alexander Murray
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James Alexander Murray

James Alexander Murray, businessman, politician, premier of NB (b at Moncton, NB 9 Nov 1864; d at Sussex, NB 16 Feb 1960). A respected politician and forceful speaker, Murray represented Kings County 1908-20.