Alan Freeman
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Czech émigré Otto Jelinek represented Canada as a skater, MP and ambassador (opens the original)
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It was the depth of the Cold War and the government of Czechoslovakia had scored a coup, securing the World Figure Skating Championships for Prague, an opportunity for the Communist regime to show off. But there was a problem. Canada’s pairs champions, the brother and sister duo of Otto and Maria Jelinek, were Czech citizens. They had escaped Czechoslovakia with their family in 1948 and sought refuge in Canada, settling in Oakville, Ont. The last thing the Czechoslovak regime wanted was to highl
Holocaust orphan Saul Reichert built a prosperous life in Edmonton (opens the original)
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In January of 1948, Saul Reichert landed at Pier 21 in Halifax, alone in the world. He was 17, with one English pound and a few U.S. dollars in his pocket. He was a survivor of Auschwitz and had lost his mother and five sisters in the Holocaust. There was no question of returning to his hometown in Poland. Mr. Reichert was a participant in the War Orphans Project, the product of an agreement between the Canadian Jewish Congress and the Canadian government that ultimately saw 1,123 Jewish survivo
Eddie Goldenberg, public servant and senior adviser to Jean Chrétien (opens the original)
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In May of 1972, a 23-year-old bespectacled McGill University law student walked into the office of Jean Chrétien, the young Indian Affairs minister in the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau, to start a job as an intern. “My summer job would last, in one way or another, for almost 32 years,” Eddie Goldenberg recalled years later in his 2006 memoir, The Way It Works: Inside Ottawa. Over those three decades, Mr. Goldenberg and Mr. Chrétien created a truly remarkable political partnership, perseve
Valery Fabrikant, who killed colleagues in Concordia University shootings, believed the world was out to get him (opens the original)
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In April, at the Quebec penitentiary where 86-year-old Valery Fabrikant was serving a life sentence for murdering four colleagues in a shooting spree at Concordia University in 1992, the former professor lashed out for a final time. From his prison cell, he sued his son Isaac in small claims court. Dr. Fabrikant, who died at the Archambault Institution on June 27 “of apparent natural causes,” according to Corrections Canada, never stopped believing that the world was out to get him. An émigré fr
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