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Poutine and Tim’s: a new book looks at Canada’s motifs

Plus, Ian Waddell's memoir hits shelves, urging for increased bipartisanship in politics, and politicos mark the passing of Harry Leslie Smith.

O Canada, eh: An RCMP Mountie sings the national anthem—both are Canadian symbols described in a new book on the icons of Canada. The Hill Times file photograph

Feature

BY NEIL MOSS

December 3, 2018

There can be no mistaking how Canadian—or more specifically, how Québécois—poutine is, even a prime minister has shared the name of that delicacy of french fries, cheese curds, and gravy. Or at least, that's what then-U.S. presidential candidate George W. Bush thought in 2000, when a re...

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