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  • Macleans

    Morin Inquiry Report

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on April 20, 1998. Partner content is not updated. Guy Paul Morin can finally get on with his life.

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  • Macleans

    Morin Inquiry Revelations

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on July 1, 1997. Partner content is not updated. Ken Jessop leaned forward in the witness stand, stared across the courtroom at the man he once fervently believed had killed his sister - and apologized. For Jessop and Guy Paul Morin, that public admission was a cathartic moment in the grim legal odyssey that began on Oct.

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  • Article

    Movement of Dangerous Goods

    Some materials and products that move by rail, ship, air or highway within Canada or across our national boundaries are classified as dangerous goods because they are flammable, explosive, toxic or potentially harmful to people or the ENVIRONMENT. Until 1985 their movement was not well regulated.

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  • Memory Project Archive

    Gordon Mumford (Primary Source)

    Gordon Mumford served in the British Merchant Navy during the Second World War. Read his full testimony below.Please be advised that Memory Project primary sources may deal with personal testimony that reflect the speaker’s recollections and interpretations of events. Individual testimony does not necessarily reflect the views of the Memory Project and Historica Canada.

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  • Macleans

    Mulroney Fights Back Over Airbus

    As usual, Brian Mulroney was dressed for the occasion, impeccably suited in sober, even prime ministerial, blue.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on April 29, 1996

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  • Macleans

    Mulroney Launches Suit

    This article was originally published in Maclean’s magazine on November 27, 1995. Partner content is not updated. Political circles had been buzzing for weeks about a major police investigation into the biggest civil aviation contract ever given by a Canadian government - the 1988 purchase of 34 Airbus A-320 passenger planes from a European consortium for $1.8 billion.

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  • Macleans

    Mulroney Speaks Out

    Brian Mulroney can't stop laughing. Sunk into the well-upholstered couch in his eleventh-floor, downtown Montreal law office, he is trying to read out loud from a glossy report - but keeps breaking into guffaws.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on May 24, 1999

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  • Macleans

    Mulroney Wins an Apology

    Teddy Kennedy was one of the first to call Brian MULRONEY at home last Monday morning with congratulations. The U.S. senator's message, Mulroney later told friends, included the observation that Mulroney "proved that a citizen can take on city hall, and win.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on January 20, 1997

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  • Macleans

    Mulroney Wins his Costs

    Public Relations 400: Case Study (honors students only). The client is a former Canadian prime minister who left office with the lowest poll ratings in history.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on October 20, 1997

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  • Article

    Municipal Administration

    The activities of locally elected municipal councils are administered by officials and employees organized into municipal public-service departments (see MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT).

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  • Article

    Municipal Finance

    Municipal finance is concerned with the revenues and expenditures of municipalities. Revenues are secured from local taxes (see TAXATION) and other local revenues and from provincial and federal grants.

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    Municipal Government in Canada

    Municipal governments are local elected authorities. They include cities, towns and villages, and rural (county) or metropolitan municipalities. They are created by the provinces and territories to provide services that are best managed under local control; from waste disposal and public transit to fire services, policing, community centres and libraries. A municipal government’s revenue is raised largely from property taxes and provincial grants.

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    Municipal Loan Fund

     The Municipal Loan fund, established 10 November 1852 in Canada West, was created largely by Francis HINCKS, co-premier of the Province of Canada, whose government's central policy was railway development.

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    Municipal-Provincial Relations

    Municipalities in Canada are similar to provincial governments in a number of important respects.

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  • Macleans

    Munk's Indonesian Gold Coup

    On Nov. 14, Peter Munk left his presidential suite at the Jakarta Grand Hyatt and headed to the government offices of Ida Bagus Sudjana, Indonesia's minister of mines and energy.This article was originally published in Maclean's Magazine on December 9, 1996

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