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...prime minister of France will have beef today-Canadian western beef. I had it yesterday and look how healthy I am this morning." Jean Chrétien, Canadian Prime Minister, after one cow in Canada was found to be infected with...
...north. Despite the threat of violence, the government's chief negotiator, G.L. Peiris, said that the statement raised hopes of a settlement as peace talks move into their third round in Oslo. CANADA Foot in Mouth Françoise Ducros, a top aide to Prime Minister Jean Chrétien, resigned after she was overheard privately telling a reporter that the U.S. president was a "moron." Opposition politicians accused Chrétien of further souring his relations with Bush by being slow to accept the resignation. MEANWHILE Arachnophobia Britain's largest supermarket chain, Tesco, had a hairy problem...
Like the portfolio of publications he controls, newspaper magnate Conrad Black transcends national categorization. Canadian-born and raised, he divides most of his time between Britain and the U.S. Earlier this year, motivated in part by bitterness over Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's refusal in 1999 to let him accept a British peerage, he renounced his Canadian citizenship. Two weeks ago, in a move that signaled the extent to which his focus has moved beyond Canada, Black announced that his holding company Hollinger would sell its 50% remaining stake in the country's National Post, which...
...Sure, there were the usual gaffes - addressing Jean Chrétien as "amigo," spelling out A-I-D-S and declining to answer questions "neither in French, nor in English, nor in Mexican" - but that stuff is charming now, right? Bush's assignment, along with the other 33 national leaders in attendance, was a pretty easy one - meet, get to know each other, congratulate each other on the strength of their varying degrees of democracy, and plan, definitely, to have a Free Trade Area of the Americas up and running...
...Bush got in and out without making trouble, without getting any of that tear gas in his eyes, and without needing Colin Powell to correct anything he had said. The bar was pretty low, not just for Bush but for the whole affair, and aside from some snide remarks Chrétien made about democracy in Haiti - and Chavez's near-total lack of effort to pretend he likes the U.S. - everybody got along fine, and promised to get along even better next time...