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It was August of 1983, and everyone knew that Pierre Elliot Trudeau, who had won his first federal election in 1968, was into his final act as prime minister; the only question was when the curtain would fall. With an election approaching and the party tanking in the polls—27 percent approval in the summer of 1983, twenty-eight points behind the...
LET ME TELL YOU about the sandwich I ate for lunch: a mouth-watering, foot-long torpedo of teriyaki chicken on multigrain bread, beautifully crafted by a true artist. The price, however, was enough to induce indigestion: $21.36 after tax and a 15 percent tip.