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Magna International Inc. founder and former Chief Executive Officer Frank Stronach is suing his daughter and others for C$520 million ($398 million), claiming mismanagement of the family fortune. A lawsuit filed in Toronto by 86-year-old Stronach and his wife Elfriede names Belinda Stronach, chairman of the Stronach Group, Alon Ossip, Stronach Group’s CEO and others as defendants. Grandchildren Nicole Walker and Frank Walker and the Stronach Consulting Corp. are listed as co-defendants, according to the Toronto Star newspaper. The Stronachs “regret having to commence proceedings in the Ontario Superior Court against their daughter Belinda, Alon Ossip and others,” the couple...

A short but rocky stint in federal politics is now over for Belinda Stronach. Stronach says she won't stand for re-election and is planning to return to the business world as executive vice-chairwoman of Magna International. Her father, Frank Stronach, is the founder and chairman of Magna. Stronach has made headlines consistently during her three year roller-coaster ride as as an MP. She garnered much media attention with her run for the leadership of the Conservative party, then again when she defected to the Liberals, in addition to stories about her romantic connections to Peter MacKay and Tie Domi.

Liberal MP Belinda Stronach, who is battling breast cancer, travelled to California last June for an operation that was recommended as part of her treatment, says a report. Stronach's spokesman, Greg MacEachern, told the Toronto Star that the MP for Newmarket-Aurora had a "later-stage" operation in the U.S. after a Toronto doctor referred her. "Belinda had one of her later-stage operations in California, after referral from her personal physicians in Toronto. Prior to this, Belinda had surgery and treatment in Toronto, and continues to receive follow-up treatment there," said MacEachern. He said speed was not the reason why she went...

Magna International Inc. has hooked up with a private equity group to make an offer for the Chrysler group, a U.S.-based analyst said today in a report quoted by Automotive News.

As potential girlfriends go, Belinda Stronach would rank as a true catch. She is single, youngish (she just turned 40), attractive, wealthy, impeccably well-connected and politically ambitious - glamorous in every respect. Two years ago, Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most powerful people on the planet. The tabloids cut to the chase: they called her the "blonde bombshell" or "Bubba's blonde." Bubba, of course, is Bill Clinton. He has been photographed with Stronach (right) several times. The sightings seem to be getting more frequent, leading to press speculation that their relationship has moved beyond official "friendship"...

Belinda Stronach, the Canadian heiress and Liberal MP famous for her friendship with Bill Clinton and her affair with a married ice hockey star, is at the centre of a political storm for a change. Canada's House of Commons was in uproar yesterday after the Conservative foreign affairs minister, Peter MacKay (right, with Stronach), denied referring to Ms Stronach as "a dog", despite "compelling evidence" to the contrary. Eight MPs signed affidavits saying they had heard his heckle, even if it wasn't recorded. Others have demanded he resign. MacKay's alleged insult came during a Commons debate on the government's proposed...

EDMONTON ? Alberta Premier Ralph Klein is making no apologies for his stinging, shoot-from-the-lip comments about other politicians in the weeks leading up to his retirement from politics. Klein was seen on the Rick Mercer Report on Tuesday telling a national TV audience that Liberal leadership hopeful Bob Rae is politically "stupid." Then Tuesday at a roast in Calgary, the premier made a crude sexual joke about the relationship Ontario MP Belinda Stronach had with fellow MP Peter MacKay before she bolted from the Conservatives to join the Liberals. "I don't think she ever did have a Conservative bone in...

But Clinton’s new, er, friendship isn’t helping his wife’s presidential aims, writes Eric Reguly As potential girlfriends go, Belinda Stronach would rank as a true catch. She is single, youngish (she just turned 40), attractive, wealthy, impeccably well-connected and politically ambitious - glamorous in every respect. Two years ago, Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most powerful people on the planet. The tabloids cut to the chase: they called her the "blonde bombshell" or "Bubba's blonde." Bubba, of course, is Bill Clinton. He has been photographed with Stronach several times. The sightings seem to be getting...

Stronach joins Domi in the sin bin Homewrecker accusations will tarnish MP's calm, cool image Don Martin National Post Wednesday, September 27, 2006 OTTAWA - They were always together -- and it always seemed so unnatural. On the campaign hustings in the middle of hockey season. Drinking in a trendy Toronto bar in March. Sharing a fruit plate at the Magna Golf Club in June. Whooping it up at the Calgary Stampede in July. And that was just 2006. The unlikely friendship between MP Belinda Stronach and retired Toronto hockey enforcer Tie Domi dates back years. You'd watch them...

But Clinton’s new, er, friendship isn’t helping his wife’s presidential aims, writes eric reguly As potential girlfriends go, Belinda Stronach would rank as a true catch. She is single, youngish (she just turned 40), attractive, wealthy, impeccably well-connected and politically ambitious - glamorous in every respect. Two years ago, Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most powerful people on the planet. The tabloids cut to the chase: they called her the "blonde bombshell" or "Bubba's blonde." Bubba, of course, is Bill Clinton. He has been photographed with Stronach (right) several times. The sightings seem to be getting...

. . . But Clinton’s new, er, friendship isn’t helping his wife’s presidential aims . . . As potential girlfriends go, Belinda Stronach would rank as a true catch. She is single, youngish (she just turned 40), attractive, wealthy, impeccably well-connected and politically ambitious - glamorous in every respect. Two years ago, Time magazine listed her as one of the 100 most powerful people on the planet. The tabloids cut to the chase: they called her the "blonde bombshell" or "Bubba's blonde." Bubba, of course, is Bill Clinton. He has been photographed with Stronach (right) several times. The sightings seem...

Billionaire Belinda Stronach insists there is nothing true about the rumors she and former President Clinton are having an affair, adding that it's all a Republican plot. The ultra-wealthy member of Canada's parliament, who switched from the Conservative to the Liberal party, told the Montreal Gazette that the rumors upset her and she doesn't know whether to laugh or cry about the global hullabaloo over her alleged role as Cinton's latest squeeze. Echoing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's famous allegation of a "vast right-wing conspiracy," Stronach told the Gazette she suspects the rumors have been spread by Republicans. But it wasn't...

Since there is much buzz these days about an apparent relationship between Bill Clinton and Canada's Belinda Stronach, some of you might find it amusing to see just what kind of person she is. Click on the source URL to get to a list of articles about her. You will be amazed. Most of them were written durring the time she was running for the leadership of Canada's Conservative Party. After she lost the leadership race, she was elected an MP and became a member of the opposition cabinet. She basicly did next to nothing there, then jumped ship to...

IT couldn’t happen again, could it? Not for the first time in American history, a president, a blonde and a birthday party are converging on New York for what may prove a politically explosive start to Senator Hillary Clinton’s long-awaited campaign for the White House. When Bill Clinton, the former president, turns 60 in August, his friends are hoping to fete him with the most glamorous birthday bash of the year. Royalty and heads of state are expected to be among the guests at Madison Square Garden, the legendary New York venue where a flimsily dressed Marilyn Monroe crooned “Happy...

The Washington Post today follows up the Times frontpager on the Clinton marriage with a column by veteran political commentator David Broder, titled "The Shadow of a Marriage," in which Broder hints that Bill Clinton has a girlfriend. He does so in a passage that critiques the Times piece: It touched only lightly on the former president's friendship with Canadian politician Belinda Stronach. Then Broder says that the character of the Clinton marriage is the "elephant in the room" with Senator Clinton—and thus, fair game in the political process. I genuinely wish the Clintons luck on this one. I'm never...

A controversial housing project built by Canadian business magnate Frank Stronach officially opened in the heart of Louisiana's bayou country on Saturday. Some 120 victims of Hurricane Katrina will be moving into 49 three-bedroom, 1,300-square-foot homes on the outskirts of Simmesport, about 100 km from Baton Rouge. It is part of a spread of more than 300-hectare spread of farmland, now dubbed "Canadaville," which will eventually serve as an organic farm for growing vegetables and raising cattle and poultry. As part of a $10-million, five-year commitment, Stronach has agreed to pay for water, sewage and infrastructure upgrades in the town....

MONTREAL — Former president Bill Clinton says he was just as surprised as everyone else when former Conservative MP Belinda Stronach defected to the Liberals last spring. Clinton, a friend of Stronach’s, says he had no prior knowledge of her stunning decision last May, which helped the governing Liberals barely survive a non-confidence vote. He says he had nothing to do with her decision, though he later concluded she had a "principled reason" for doing it. Stronach was elected to the House of Commons in 2004 as a Conservative after her high-profile bid to lead the party was thwarted by...

Belinda's lesson By LINK BYFIELD -- Calgary Sun Pardon me while I gag. It was announced from Ottawa last week that our new Minister of Democratic Renewal will spend $1 million crossing the country to find out why fewer Canadians -- especially young people -- are voting in national elections. Why is there such growing apathy, disengagement and even cynicism about politics? She's determined to find out. The minister is Belinda Stronach, who was elected a year ago as a Conservative MP by the voters of New Market-Aurora in Ontario. On May 17, the Liberals bribed her with a cabinet...

With the mainline media mesmerized by Conservative MP Belinda Stronach’s recent defection to the Liberal Party of Canada, lost from the limelight was why the Liberals would put a rookie in charge of the government till. In the power base of Liberal rule, the Human Resources Management Office (HRMO), which Stronach now oversees, is the government till. "The Expenditure and Management Strategies Sector (EAMS) has a lead responsibility within Treasury Board Secretariat (TBS) for its role in the government’s expenditure and management system. In playing this role, the Sector acts as the primary point of liaison with the Privy Council...

Leon Trotsky once dismissed a group of political opponents by exclaiming that they would be consigned to "the dustbin of history." Mark my words, they will be joined before very long by Belinda Stronach. She is a vacuous figure of passing interest; a transitory, if irritating digression. So, on to more serious issues. Whether you liked it or not, there was once in this country a party that stood for something. Liberalism held sway and the vague yet compelling notions of constant progress and social justice attracted mass support. We could vote for or against such a party. Conservatives may...