Many years ago, a young reporter trundled off to Port Hope, Ontario outside Toronto to interview Farley Mowat. The best-selling author of such ground-breaking Canadian non-fiction as People of the Deer and Never Cry Wolf was deathly ill with the flu…
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Remembering Farley Mowat
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How I Nearly Destroyed British Royalty–But Saved A Prince From Margaret Trudeau
What with Queen Elizabeth II celebrating her Diamond Jubilee–sixty years on the throne–and the monarchy secure for the moment, I can now tell the story of how I nearly destroyed British Royalty. In 1979 I flew to Victoria, British Columbia, to cover…
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Ron Base Writes 