Word: toronto
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...victory in the election last week added to existing speculation that Ignatieff, now representing the western Toronto region of Etobicoke-Lakeshore, will someday fill the role of Liberal Party leader and eventually even prime minister...
...TIME: For a while it did seem like directors were interested in making regional films but now everything has sort of drifted back to locations in Los Angeles or Toronto. Is something missing...
...actor I realized I was doing more films in Toronto and Alberta than I was in America and it was very disappointing because it?s so great to be able to go to the actual place where the thing takes place. My first experience of it I guess was Days of Heaven (1978) because we shot it in Alberta and it?s supposed to be West Texas. What the hell were we doing in Alberta? It was all about the money, which is kind of sad. I love Alberta, I love the high plains up there and it?s very...
...government social spending is now tempered by worries about high taxes, devalued retirement portfolios and personal financial security--particularly in the bulging boomer generation whose oldest members are entering their 60s. Canada's center-left political parties have taken note of the trend: the Boxing Day shooting in Toronto left even the New Democrats scrambling to articulate a tough-on-crime policy. Jason Clemens, an economist at the conservative Fraser Institute, predicts that Harper will have little trouble passing his populist legislative agenda, which includes, among other things, the proposed sales-tax cuts and direct child-care payments...
...delegates and build a campaign team--one reason that pressure is already building for hopefuls to declare themselves. Former Justice Minister Martin Cauchon was among the first to sniff the winds: he called a prospective supporter (unsuccessfully) three times for lunch. Others, like former Newfoundland Premier Brian Tobin, powerful Toronto-area M.P.s Maurizio Bevilacqua and Joe Volpe and former hockey great Ken Dryden, are allowing speculation to float about their prospective candidacies. Still others are lurking on the sidelines, including former Harvard professor Michael Ignatieff, who, as a political novice, won a hard-fought race in the Toronto suburb...