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...Meech, a finger-like lake set in the evergreen-forested hills of Quebec's Gatineau Park, has long been a mecca for canoeists, campers, fishermen and skiers. But it was not the area's scenic beauty that last week drew Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and key members of his Progressive Conservative Cabinet to the government-owned retreat on the lake's snow-covered shore. Faced with Parliament's return from Christmas recess this week and with a host of problems awaiting action, Mulroney and his advisers had driven the half-hour north from Ottawa for an agonizing reappraisal...
...despite opposition from Canadians who fear that free trade could compromise their country's cultural sovereignty by allowing big U.S. companies to gobble up Canadian book publishing and broadcasting. Mulroney's most urgent task, though, will be to convince his countrymen that he and his colleagues emerged from Lac Meech last week carrying a compass. --By Peter Stoler/Ottawa
...game-winner came at even-strength, when senior defenseman Dave McCulloch and freshman blue-liner Dylan Reese—playing their first game together—each took the body on winger Mike Meech. That left the puck for Chris Swon, who swept down the left side and beat junior goaltender Dov Grumet-Morris...
Wayne State’s captains Kelly Meech and Katie Jones led the team with four penalty minutes each, though many more could have been called. Meech’s methods of leading the team included slamming Botterill into the corner of the boards, where the end of the bench meets the beginning of the plexiglass...
...After so many efforts, including Meech Lake, all they're doing is tinkering with more of this, more of that. It's byzantine, absolutely byzantine...