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...country's community newspapers. He gave up his Canadian citizenship in 2001 to accept a peerage in the British House of Lords, becoming Lord Black of Crossharbour, but he was already the equivalent of Canadian royalty. More outspoken, more opinionated and certainly far richer than the typical Canuck, he seemed to enjoying being in the newspapers almost as much as he did publishing them...
It’s this whole supergroup thing. Our neighbors to the north just play well together. First came megaband Broken Social Scene, the New York Yankees of Canuck indie rock. Then the infectious New Pornographers trickled south, displacing deserving American-born power pop peddlers. And now there’s Swan Lake, set to make Williamsburg, Brooklyn look like Flint, Michigan...
...after hordes of Canuck researchers retreated to my frigid homeland, the rest of us will be left mired in a pretty serious dilemma. As Harvard prepares to inaugurate the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the University will have to answer a fundamental question—when researchers stand to make massive contributions to knowledge in areas that are the subject of controversy, to what extent is it incumbent on us to shield them from the prying eyes of the government...
...There's frustration at being so tantalizingly close mixed with satisfaction they're exceeding expectations," says former Crazy Canuck Ken Read, a two-time Olympian and head of Alpine Canada. "If those fourths had been a medal, people would have been doing backflips. We wanted this team to gain the experience to position themselves for 2010. They're doing that...
...think we do. I think we will have a really high turnout among Canadians. I think [Mike] brings an important diversity to the ticket. It’s hard being on an all white-male ticket. Mike really rounds out the diversity angle having that Canuck thing going...