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...appeal of caring for the property of others is as varied as the people who take those positions. For Don Davison, 72, a retired banker in Knowlton, Quebec, the decision was strictly financial. "I can rent my condo, which is in a resort area, for three months and make a chunk of change that will help me overcome inflation, since my pension isn't indexed," Davison says. Still, he needed someplace to live for three months. The solution: he took a position as summer house manager at his ski club at Mont Tremblant, in eastern Canada, where he lives rent...
...Owen King: In Bangor, Maine. It's the last real metropolitan area in the states. It's Bangor, and then 10 hours to Quebec. Everything in between is trees...
...infrastructure expenditures - for venues such as the Olympic Village and the stadium - spiraled so out of control that the city had to impose a $2 billion tax on tobacco to get out of its financial hole. To this day, 17? out of every pack of cigarettes purchased in Quebec goes to pay for Olympic construction...
...waffling became evident as early as March, when Mulroney returned from his meeting with President Reagan in Quebec City with little more on the highly sensitive acid rain issue than U.S. promises to study the already overstudied problem. Then in June, Ottawa backed away from its plan to reduce Canada's federal deficit by changing the indexation of old-age pensions. In August, many Canadians were offended when Ottawa failed to take the initiative in protesting the passage of the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Sea through the Northwest Passage, which Canada claims as a territorial waterway...
Once into his 40s, Homer rarely went anywhere without rag paper, sable brushes and the little pans of color. He took his working vacations in places he knew would give him subjects--the New England coast, the Adirondacks, the tumultuous rivers of Quebec, the Florida Keys and the dark palmetto-fringed pools of Homosassa, the bays and whitewashed coral walls of the Bermudas...