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Chuck Strahl was ‘smart, sharp, funny, and he brought a smile everywhere he went’: politicos

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Chuck Strahl, right, pictured May 2007, with former top bureaucrat Yaprak Baltaciouglu, died on Aug. 13, aged 67. 'Chuck was a special man with vision, determination, humour, and an unwavering moral compass,' wrote Baltaciouglu last week on social media. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY CHRISTINA LEADLAY

August 19, 2024

Chuck Strahl, a popular cabinet minister in the Conservative government of Stephen Harper, was remembered last week as "smart, sharp, funny," and someone who "brought a smile everywhere he went." Strahl died of lung cancer on Aug. 13 at the ...

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