Prime Minister Harper met Prime Minister Brown at 10 Downing Street today where they discussed the forthcoming G8 Summit and a range of issues including the global economy; the international development agenda and Afghanistan. They also discussed the environment and the Prime Minister's address earlier in the afternoon to the Canada-UK Chamber of Commerce on the theme of climate change. As well, they agreed that the forthcoming Canada-EU Summit should see real progress on the Canada-EU economic agenda.

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Though I was paid a full-time salary and supervised a staff of about 20 full- and part-time staffers, the writing and editing was mostly done, as it is on student papers around the world, by volunteers. During my day at the helm of The Ontarion (and in the preceding decade as a volunteer there), the tradition for thanking volunteers was a night of free beer and pizza, usually at The Albion in downtown Guelph.... And so in the winter semester of 2008, The Ontarion volunteer party was held at Churchill's and the beer was supplied by John Sleeman from the new brewery that the world would soon get to know.   more »