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John Turner’s friends to throw his 90th birthday bash on June 10 in Ottawa

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Former prime minister John Turner, left, former prime minister Paul Martin, middle, and former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty, right, pictured in 2012. The Hill Times file photograph
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BY NEIL MOSS
June 3, 2019
John Turner, Canada's oldest former living prime minister, will turn 90 on June 7, but friends are throwing a big birthday bash for him in Ottawa on June 10 at the grand Sir John A. Macdonald Building. The organizers of the party are Lisa Haley and Marc

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