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Green has always relied on comedy when confronting adversity. A class clown, he and Ottawa school friends videotaped their fights with security guards who got after them for skateboarding in parking lots. After college, his quirky public-access show was picked up by a Canadian cable channel, and he was touted as the country's next Mike Myers. When he auditioned for MTV in 1998, he slathered himself with shaving cream and went into mock convulsions. "That to me was genius," says MTV programming president Brian Graden. "He delivers attitude and pushes buttons, but he provokes people with a smile...
Some fans drove overnight from Ottawa to hear her talk. Nicole Riess, Terra Kitzul and Lynn Kasinska, all architecture students at the Canadian Carleton University, wanted to see her in person before studying in London--Hadid's home city--next year...
...least that's the conclusion of Dr. Erica Eason of the University of Ottawa in Ontario and Dr. Perle Feldman of McGill University in Montreal, who have reviewed all the data available from the past 30 years. "Episiotomy should no longer be routine," they wrote in last week's issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology. "[It should be] reserved for exceptional circumstances...
Immediately after the announcement, Ottawa Senators owner Rod Bryden triumphantly announced that he had "put away the 'For Sale' sign." NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman breathed a sigh of relief. And the response from the public resounded from the banks of Newfoundland to the shores of British Columbia...
...occurred with a minimum of government planning. But that may have to change. An early sign of the complications ahead is the expected demise of external tariffs sheltering the auto pact, after last month's World Trade Organization interim ruling that they discriminated against Japanese and other automakers. While Ottawa ponders whether to appeal the ruling, doomsayers are predicting the end of the "sweetheart" tariff holiday that they claim has underwritten Great Lakes prosperity for the past three decades. But the tariff ruling is probably irrelevant...