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Newscasters would do well to remember Eliza Doolittle

 
I have this dream that sometime today every broadcaster in Canada will spend at least an hour looking at a mirror while reciting "the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain." I mean May 20 is Eliza Doolittle Day, and heaven knows the owners of most of the voices invading our homes via radio or television need to shape their words closer to Professor Henry Higgins' precision.
 
 
 

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Michael D. Reid

Stars arrive for Foster gala

The weather gods smiled on the first round of celebrities who flew in Friday for the start of David Foster's Miracle Weekend.

 
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Jack Knox

War hero to PM: Know your extremists

Trevor Greene's voice comes down the phone line hoarse, intense.

 
Helen Chesnut

'Best-laid plans' open door to planning new projects

A week off actually became a week truly off when, at the start of my escape-the-office, rehabilitate-the-garden week, I slipped on a wet slope. Somehow, in the successful effort to remain upright, I managed to rearrange a few major muscle groups. Familiar phrases like "best-laid plans" and "plot a path; make the gods laugh" ran through my mind during the week as I clutched ice to the hurting bits, stared into space and whimpered.

 
Les Leyne

Relations strained for Seaspan, Liberals

Considering the number of pinkhardhat media moments (three) Premier Christy Clark has staged at Seaspan shipyards, you'd think her government would be getting along fine with the firm.