WREN recalls lessons and benefits of wartime experience
Margaret Haliburton is proud of the contribution of Canadian women during the Second World War. However, joining the navy, she admits, was not her idea. “My mother told me to,” she said.
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Vet recalls the night of the Great Escape
Nearly 66 years after he was liberated at the end of the Second World War, Albert Wallace can still remember the night of the Great Escape. “I didn’t sleep that night, waiting to see what was going to happen,” he said.
Wynne, Prue, Tabuns doing the ‘Queen’s Park Shuffle’
Wynne, who represents Don Valley West, was provincial education minister from 2006 until just last year, when McGuinty moved her to the transportation portfolio. Now she’ll serve as minister of Aboriginal Affairs as well as minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
War correspondent calls reporting a citizen responsibility
Murray Brewster remembers the last interview he conducted with the mayor of Kandahar. The award-winning war correspondent from Canada was standing with Mayor Ghulam Haidar Hameedi on the steps of the governor’s palace in Kandahar. Suddenly, Brewster noticed three men striding across the lawn in front of them.
Defeated Liberal vows reprise in Toronto-Danforth
“I think that serving as an elected official is the ultimate way to (serve a community),” Sterling said. “I am going to be an MPP.”
Wynne the winner in Don Valley West
Election night proved something of an anti-climax, with Wynne quickly building to a vote total of 24,454 votes, or 58.3 per cent of the total.
Layton’s legacy lingers for provincial counterpart
“The people in Toronto-Danforth have put their confidence in me and all of us in the NDP to stand up for them in this province, to put them first, and that’s just what we’re going to do with jobs, health care, education and the environment,” Tabuns said. “We’re going to stand up for the people of Ontario. We here in Toronto-Danforth.”
Burstyn sees silver lining in defeat
Sipping red wine, Liberal Party of Canada President Alfred Apps said that he thinks Burstyn’s ability to close the historically large gap between the NDP and Liberals in Beaches-East York is impressive. He also thinks another Liberal government in Ontario is an important step in the right direction for the party.
Prue’s lucky sweater proves lucky again
On election nights, Prue has been known to sport the “lucky” sweater that his wife knitted 20 years ago, when he was a municipal politician. Tonight was no exception.
East York sticks with its MPPs
Liberal Kathleen Wynne lived up to her name, winning with 24,454 votes or 58.3 per cent of the vote in Don Valley West. She easily defeated Andrea Mandel-Campbell, bringing in nearly twice as many votes as the 11,626 claimed by the Conservative candidate.