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Belinda Stronach has slid while former boyfriend Peter MacKay has soared. Their failures and successes speak to the shifts in political mood.There was a moment in May 2005 when it appeared as though Belinda Stronach had managed, with a little help from her friends, to catapult herself over the entire Canadian political landscape, coming down, to considerable fanfare, among the top decision-makers in government. Without a shred of real political experience, without ever having held a job she was not appointed to by her father, without even a university degree, Stronach had claimed credit for uniting the right, placed second...

Victim stance self-serving Ottawa Sun September, 28, 2006 By SUSAN SHERRING Just what world is Belinda Stronach living in? Or perhaps more importantly, what world does she want to live in? The Tory-turned-Liberal MP believes it's still a man's world. That's her assessment after the member of parliament was named in divorce papers filed by former Toronto Maple Leaf Tie Domi's estranged wife Leanne. In a society that craves salacious gossip, the story of the alleged affair quickly became front page news this week. No surprise there. Domi's wife alleges her husband flaunted the alleged relationship with Stronach, ignoring...

Domi's wife takes divorce public In interview, Leanne Domi says the `facts are facts' about Tie and Belinda Toronto red Star Sep. 26, 2006. 01:00 AM ROSIE DIMANNO, STAR COLUMNIST All the world's a sucker for scandal, especially when there's sex involved. Loving and un-loving: It's the stuff of vicarious, if cheap, thrills. And in a celebrity-challenged country such as Canada — where hockey is politics — the gasp-snicker subject of the day must needs be The Battle of the Domis, with an uptown girl-pol thrown in for titillation. Not exactly Jen and Brad and Angelina, but juicy enough...