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Falls lit up in crimson and orange in memorial to Virginia Tech dead National Post Published: Monday, April 23, 2007 Niagara Falls was last night lit up in crimson and orange, the colours of Virginia Tech University where 33 people died in a shooting rampage last week. Vince Anello, the mayor of Niagara Falls, N.Y., said: "I can think of no more appropriate venue to memorialize these students and educators than the beauty of one of God's most majestic natural treasures." The tribute would "allow the good and decent people of Southern Ontario and Western New York to reach...

Wilson career makes him perfect fit as Tory ambassador Jim Brown Canadian Press Thursday, February 16, 2006 OTTAWA -- The book on Michael Wilson is pretty straightforward - and it reads like a perfect resume for a Conservative government's ambassador to Washington. The 68-year-old Wilson grew up in the well-heeled Rosedale section of Toronto, went to all the right schools, including Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto, and became a Bay Street stock broker. He followed that with 14 years in Parliament, nine of them a minister under Brian Mulroney where he held the trade, industry and...