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Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

March 10, 2021

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—I have always been a sucker for commemorative days or months. It comes from my time as a radio reporter and sometime disc jockey. It was always great filler to throw in 20 seconds on whatever “national day” it happened to be. For example, March 4 was National Grammar Day, w...

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