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RBC Dominion Securities Inc. is a member company of RBC Wealth Management, a business segment of Royal Instagram and other forms of social “We had a very special class,” she Bank of Canada. ®Registered trademarks of Royal Bank of Canada. Used under licence. ©RBC Dominion Securities Inc. 2017. All rights reserved. 17_90409_H7L_001 media with members, she had a chance said. encounter with Aurora resident Clare The Premier’s day started in Barrie Herrema, who just happened to have and, following the Seniors’ Centre, been Premier Wynne’s Grade 2 teacher. moved to Newmarket for stops along “I thought it was Grade 5, but it was Main Street, Dairy Quality Inc, and Grade 2,” said Ms. Herrema following wrapping up with a roundtable at the brief reunion, during which Treefrog Inc. Former MP Sinclair Stevens dies at 89 By Bill Rea and withdrew in favour of the eventual victor Joe Clark. He served as President Sinclair Stevens, former Member of the Treasury Board in the short-lived of Parliament and minister in two Clark government. Progressive Conservative governments, Mr. Stevens was handily re-elected is dead. as the Member for York-Peel in the Mr. Stevens died unexpectedly 1984 general election that saw the November 30 after suffering a severe Progressive Conservatives under heart attack at his King Township Brian Mulroney sweep to power. home. He was 89. He was named Minister of Regional “It was very unexpected,” his wife Industrial Expansion in the new Noreen said. “He had been active up government, but resigned in 1986 when until the day before.” conflict of interest allegations were He was first elected to the House raised against him.