Archive 1997-2016
At 10:30 p.m. on March 13, Obert Madondo ate his last meal before embarking on a hunger strike against the Harper government’s omnibus crime bill. The Zimbabwean refugee chose lasagna in honour of the Italian family that first welcomed him to Canada many years ago.
The province’s $600 million share of Ottawa’s LRT funding won’t be touched despite warnings of “significant” infrastructure cuts, finance minister Dwight Duncan said March 15.
Frances McFadden had little notion as to how many adventures, triumphs, and tragedies she would face upon dropping out of the High School of Commerce and accepting a job with the emerging Canadian Financial Resources Agency – and neither did I. For a historical fiction based locally, I never expected to get such a thrill following McFadden’s journey in helping to establish the Bank of Canada.