A dispatch from the front lines of the new French revolution

Farewell to Quebec

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				Did I steal your line?
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				The wrong kind of excitement
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				Picture perfect
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				Red-handed
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				Crown and sceptre, Canadian style
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				Royals vs. Canadian weather
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<p>Official welcoming speeches are always vetted down to the last comma. So Prince Charles had to have been startled when Prime Minister Stephen Harper talked about a quote that the prince said on a previous visit: &#8220;Every time I come to Canada &#8211; a little more of Canada seeps into my bloodstream &#8211; and from there straight to my heart.&#8221; For that exact phrase was the heart of the speech that the prince was to give mere minutes later.</p>


The royal treatment

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