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The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

- Dave Winfield

We really want to do what a number of provinces have looked at, to make the provisions of the Criminal Code that deal with conditional sentences more than a slap on the wrist. They need to be real sentences where people live up to the terms of those orders,

- Michael Baker

It`s somewhere between 5½ and eight years -- (that) would be our own lawyers` best estimate of the time frame as this meanders through the courts. In terms of guessing what other provinces will do and when, I really don`t know.

- John Barnett

Ontario, therefore urges the federal government, in consultation with the provinces and territories, to undertake an immediate high priority review of the current firearms provisions in the Criminal Code as set out in this paper.

- Michael Bryant

The civil war which has so long prevailed between Spain and the Provinces in South America still continues, without any prospect of its speedy termination.

- James Monroe

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

- Alexandra Bodemann

The house of Austria has publicly used every effort to deprive the country of its legitimate Independence and Constitution, designing to reduce it to a level with the other provinces long since deprived of all freedom, and to unite all in a common sink of slavery.

- Allison Baker

We are distressed by the unilateral actions of those provinces that are clearly determined to redefine what our common faith was once.

- Amy Drake

According to them, the poet is confined to the provinces with his mouth broken on his own syllabic trapeze.

- Andrea Cerutti

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.

- Andrew Lochart

Canada will be a strong country when Canadians of all provinces feel at home in all parts of the country, and when they feel that all Canada belongs to them.

- Ann Brown

If the requests continue, we will continue to meet them. Provinces will probably also step up to the plate with their emergency stockpiles.

- Anne B. McCoy

These will be a great help in shaping the budget measures provide real insights into the hopes and concerns of Canadians from all provinces and territories.

- Anthony Williams

What could happen here is eventually this gets out of the water and turns northwards toward the Maritime provinces, in which case it would not be a very merry time up there,

- Art Bruner

What could happen here is eventually this gets out of the water and turns northwards toward the Maritime provinces, in which case it would not be a very merry time up there.

- Art Bruner

I never think we should just come and say we need more money, ... I think the provinces, territories and federal governments need to sit down and say to each other, `What are the highest-priority needs?` for Canadians.

- Ashley Kuschel