The most memorable 1996 absurdities
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Some of the absurd and amusing news of 1996, are recounted. They include two submarine crew members in Halifax who waterskied behind their boat, pilots flying over the Falklands who noticed that the Penguins were watching them, and John Wayne Bobbitt's ordination as a minister.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1996
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Raising the Arrow: a TV miniseries conjures up a stratospheric dream
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Canadian-born actor Dan Aykroyd will star in CBC's 'The Arrow,' a miniseries that tells the story the Canadian Arrow jet fighter, which was built and then destroyed in the 1950s. Aykroyd will play A.V. Roe Canada Crawford Gordon, president of the company that created the Arrow.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1997
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Thumbs down to Izzy Asper's national dream
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The Chretien government should reverse the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunication's decision to reject the application of Izzy Asper's CanWest Global Communications Corp for the last available Calgary-Edmonton TV license.
Publication Name: Maclean's
Subject: News, opinion and commentary
ISSN: 0024-9262
Year: 1996
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