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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Conservative leader Andrew Scheer and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh. Recent polling has the Liberals still running first, but the Conservatives are getting a little too close for comfort, writes Sheila Copps. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SHEILA COPPS

March 5, 2018

OTTAWA—The Colour Purple was a novel chronicling the life of poor, black American women in the 1930s. It took on a new meaning with the creation of the Red Hat Society back in 1998. Created in California, the society has a membership of 70,000 women around the world. Most are older, alth...

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